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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 17 views
Remember that the safety of the weak and of the strong believer rests upon the same foundation. On board one of the fine steamboats that flit between England and America there is a strong, hardy, vigorous man. Will he get to America safely? Yes, if the ship does. But yonder is a little child that cannot…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 15 views
Devotional from David Jeremiah
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 89 views
Humility defined by Tony Evans, wild horse, bronco
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 6 views
I know an old friend who used to tell me that for 60 years he had never known a day’s illness. A splendid healthy old man he was, but about three months ago he took typhoid fever. I went to see him, and when he got better he came to see me. He said, “Well, sir, you see I am not the man I was, but I have…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
Now we feel such love to the world as that which the nurse has toward her foster child. It may be a very tiresome child, but she is entrusted with it. Because its hunger cannot be appeased unless she feeds it, and its nakedness cannot be clothed unless she wraps it up, its needs and its weaknesses appeal…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 views
Sometimes, in the old days of war, there used to be a number of little ships wanting to cross the sea. But the privateers were on the watch, so the seamen were afraid to hoist the sail, and get away from the shelter of the shore, for they would soon be caught by their enemies, like doves by the hawk.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
It would never do for weak eyes to have the full light of the sun pouring down upon them. Often, when men are faint and nearly dying of hunger, they would be killed outright if strong meat were at once set before them. They must be gently fed as they are able to bear it. So God, knowing the feebleness…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
There was a good old soul whose minister called to see her when she was dying. Among other things he said to her, “My sister, you are very weak; don’t you feel yourself sinking?” She looked at him, and gave no answer, but said, “Did I understand you, minister? Please tell me what you said—I hope you…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
I cannot pass over the thirty years of His silence without feeling that here was a marvelous instance of how He humbled Himself. I know young men who think that two or three years’ education is far too long for them. They want to be preaching at once—running away, as I sometimes tell them, like chickens…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Toledo, Ohio KC Ahlers’ son was born with a rare medical condition. In a desperate attempt to raise money for medical care he posted a flyer near a mall asking for donations. Someone posted a sign next to the flyer that read: “Stop asking for money. Let the baby die. It’s called Darwinism. Happy Holidays.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In Argentina, bars have been allowed to reopen while churches are still limited to just 10 people. One Argentine pastor decided he would turn his church, The Comunidad Redentor evangelical church in San Lorenzo into a bar. Pastors will carry around trays with Bibles to replicate the actions of waiters.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “Spencer Silver, the scientist who is partially credited with the creation of the Post-it, was working in his lab at the Minnesota-based company, actually trying to develop a very strong adhesive. Unfortunately, he wasn’t successful. What he accidentally made…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Kara Tippett took a question posed by Martin Luther, “What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?” and intended to write a blog with topics like the daily grind of laundry, screaming kids, and getting dinner on the table. She would write of living by faith through the everyday weariness and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
It is true that many churches, striving to get more people to come to their church in an increasingly secular culture, will try various innovative means to get people in the door. Well, Rochester Cathedral, in Kent, England, took it to the limit by installing a mini-golf course in their sanctuary for…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In his book, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World, Max Lucado writes, “One would think Christians would be exempt from worry. But we are not. We have been taught that the Christian life is a life of peace, and when we don;t have peace, we assume the problem lies within us. Not only do…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Walker Smallword dreamed of pitching in the major leagues, but bone cancer robbed him of those career aspirations. Instead of scrapbooking impressive baseball stats, his family logged these numbers, “six surgeries, six chemotherapy cycles, 24 treatments and 18 hospital stays.” The 17-year-old athlete…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Currently scientific understanding suggests four basic forces govern daily activities, gravity electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. Finds from research at a laboratory near Chicago has uncovered the possibility of a new sub-atomic particle or new force, known as a muon. Researchers…
Rev. Michael K Boateng • Illustration • • 23 views
There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus , who walk not after the flesh , but after the Spirit
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Sam Gifford and a friend were taking senior pictures along the Mississippi River near Minneapolis, when a nearby shout changed their focus. Authorities said an older man hunting for a lost drone had slipped on a trail and slid 60 feet down the embankment towards the river. Gifford asked his friend to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A Greek student decided that the best way to get back home was to ride a bicycle after flights were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kleon Papadimitriou was studying at the University of Aberdeen and was not able to book a flight home to Athens, so researched the possibility of riding a bicycle…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
In the movie The Lion King, Simba, the baby lion, takes his friend Nala to the Elephant Graveyard. Although this was strictly forbidden by his father, Simba laughs at the face of danger in order to impress his friend. Once there, they are chased by the dangerous hyenas and eventually get cornered. In…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Rome is known as one of the greenest cities in Europe because over 300,000 trees line the city streets and fill its parks. Many of the 100-year-old trees are weak or dying, leaving the city with ugly stumps. The need spurred 22-year-old Andrea Gandini to act by carving the dead stumps into art. He has…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
Elena Griffing has worked at the same San Francisco hospital for 70 years, and says she has no plans to retire. Griffing, who just celebrated her 90th birthday, says she still loves working at the hospital. Though she has held several positions over the years, she says every day on the job is a celebration.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Doris and Fred Thomson are both 95 years old. The two police officers responding to an emergency from their home expected the worse. There was no real emergency, at least of the kind we normally think about. Fred and Doris just wanted someone to talk to. The British policemen brewed a pot of tea and…