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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
God’s law is not of variable quantity or quality depending upon the quantity or quality of the conscience; it is fixed and definite. It is just as if a man were to take prussic acid believing that it would benefit him—he would die, despite his conscience. Or it is as if a person were to walk northward…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 29 views
When the prodigal is received and forgiven, he is not put at the end of the table, below the salt, or sent into the kitchen with the servants, as if his faults were forgiven but yet remembered. He is invited to the table, and he feasts there upon the best the house affords. The fatted calf is killed,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
The amount of freedom current technology allows with phones is astounding. In fact, some statistics show that people only use our smartphones to talk with others by voice 22% of the total time they spend on the devices. The same research shows that users spend almost 5 hours per day on their Smartphone,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 125 views
A tropical bird found in England may have logged the most air miles in the history of aviation. Wildlife officials say the red-footed booby, a native to the Caribbean, was found on a beach in southern England. The bird was 5,000 miles from its native habitat and was the first reported sighting in Britain.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
“Many respondents reported higher rates of past-month drug and alcohol use. The rate of past-month alcohol use grew with household income: 40% of lower-income households, 45.96% of middle-income households and 52.69% of high-income households.” https://sflcn.com/study-shows-how-south-florida-residents-are-coping-with-covid-19-based-on-income-level/…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
One of the adaptations taken as a result of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic is the wearing of facemasks. According to some, wearing the facemask prevents droplets containing the virus from escaping through the mouth and nose to infect others. How then do you explain the Kentucky woman who approached a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Timothee Mottin owns a café-restaurant in the French Alps and has gathered a collection of items from mishaps on the Mont Blanc glacier. His most recent find is copies of Indian newspapers with headlines for 1966 when Indira Gandhi became India’s first woman prime minister. The papers were probably aboard…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In his book, It Calls You Back, Luis J. Rodriguez discusses the true relationship between a father and son who dealt with gangs. This son gets in a fight with his father about being in a gang. The son then runs away from the father and the father chases him “from street to street, alley to alley.” Then…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The number of people believing in Islam in parts of the world is staggering. In Afghanistan it is 99.7 percent. In Iran 99.4 percent, Algeria 99 percent, Somalia 99 percent, Niger 98 percent, Azerbaijan 97 percent, Libya 97 percent, Saudi Arabia 97 percent, Djibouti 97 percent, Sudan 97 percent, Senegal…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Kenneth was drunk and wanted to go home, so he called an Uber to pick him up near West Virginia University and drive him home. So far, sounds like the responsible thing to do, right? After all, we wouldn’t want him to drink and then drive. He gave the UberXL driver his address and passed out in the car,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Authorities in Indiana said a man who robbed a gas station and took food, drinks, and cigarettes probably should have taken something else too. State Police arrested 33-yer-old Sean Harris after finding him stranded by the side of a highway when his car ran out of gas. The Police arrested Harris just…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A heating contractor has finally removed a beeping alarm clock from the wall of a Pennsylvania home. The clock had been inside the wall for fourteen years after the homeowner tied it to a string, so he could use the beeping noise to pinpoint the spot where he needed to drill a hole. Unfortunately, the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Dwight Howard entered the NBA desiring to add the shadow of the cross to the NBA Logo. He wanted to glorify God and lift up Jesus Christ in his life. But getting away from home and into the world he quickly went astray. His lifestyle became one no Christian could be proud of. After a while, the new Dwight…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 33 views
Authorities are advising residents to be on the lookout for a white sheep in an area between Haddenfield, New Jersey, and a neighboring community. They said the sheep is very skittish and runs away when approached. Local animal control officials said they have seen the sheep but it is very hard to catch…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 36 views
People will counterfeit anything they can get away with, it seems. A New York woman was arrested after she was caught driving with a cardboard license plate that she had made at home. Police caught her when they noticed that she did not have a front plate to match. Counterfeits are everywhere. Jesus…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Police arrested Jeff Waters when he tried to cash a $368 billion check. When questioned by police Waters claimed he bought the check for $100 from a man named Tito. “Blame Tito,” Waters told police. “I’m as innocent as a schoolgirl.” It is hard to tell which delusion Jeff Waters had was the most serious.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In 1967, Manhattan lawyer Ivan Schneider brought a Jaguar XKE convertible. Schneider says that car was one of the first and best looking luxury cars he ever owned, and it also the only one to be stolen. The car disappeared in March, 1968 and did not resurface until a routine export report check through…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A new study from Europe has confirmed the stereotype that men hate asking for directions. Research conducted the Swinton Company found that 83 percent of male drivers ignored the advice from their satellite navigation systems on a regular basis. Less than 75 percent of women reported that they choose…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
For an Oregon woman and her children their GPS device turned out to be a curse and a blessing. Melissa Batz and her children were about 15 minutes away from reaching their destination on a camping trip when their GPS unit sent them on a detour. The family drove onto a backcountry road, and soon got stuck…
Terry Cavanaugh • Illustration • • 86 views
The Little Chap Who Follows Me A careful man I want to be, A little fellow follows me; I do not dare to go astray For fear he’ll go the self-same way. I cannot once escape his eyes. Whate’er he sees me do he tries. Like ME he says he’s going to be— That little chap who follows me. I must remember as…
Bible Study
Andrew Norvelle • Illustration • • 38 views
1 - Ephesus (2181 - Ephesos = “permitted”) Revelation 2:1-7 Passover - (Ex 12:11) - Yahweh Yira (יֵרָאֶה יְהוָה) – ‘The LORD provides’ - (Gn. 22: 8) - Spirit of the Lord - (Is 11:2) - Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - (Mt5:3) - “Father, forgive them; for they do not…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
TRANSITIONSMINISTRYOUTREACH According to D. Michael Lindsay, a consultant for religion and culture to the Gallup Institute, there are two critical moments when a person might lessen or increase their involvement in a local church “times of relocation and family transition.” “As a result,” Lindsay says,…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 20 views
Speak the Truth—Grow the Church 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 154 views
Collateral Damage 23 About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. 24 A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in no little business for the craftsmen. 25 He called them together, along with the workmen in related trades, and said: “Men, you know we…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 1,081 views
THE ALMOST INEVITABLE RUIN OF EVERY MINISTER . . . AND HOW TO AVOID IT 1 Timothy 4:15-16 Almost everyone knows someone who used to be in the ministry. Almost everyone knows someone who shouldn't be in the ministry. And every minister knows another minister—if not several—he does not want to be like.…