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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 15 views
The birds go flying through the orchard, and they do not say a word to one another till they come to a cherry tree where the cherries are very sweet and ripe. Then they all fall to at once and begin to peck away with all their might. So nobody says much of an ordinary Christian who is doing little for…
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 26 views
The V formation formed by migrating geese can teach us many lessons when it comes to believers working together to reach common goals in the church.
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 62 views
In some of the houses not far from here, I noticed some linnets in cages, in which there were tufts of grass or small branches of trees as perches for the poor prisoners; yet they were singing away right merrily. I suppose that grass and those fragments of trees were meant to remind them, in this great,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 16 views
An owl is a fine bird to look at, but he is a very small bird when he is plucked. He is nearly all feathers, and I think that a great many professing Christians are very like owls. They are fine birds to look at, but it is mostly feathers. Just see whether it is mostly feathers with you. Spurgeon, C.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 48 views
I have heard of a naturalist who thought himself exceedingly wise with regard to the natural history of birds. Yet he had learned all he knew in his study, and had never so much as seen a bird either flying through the air or sitting upon its perch. He was a fool, although he thought himself exceedingly…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 134 views
The ostrich is reported to bury her head in the sand and then suppose herself safe, but she is captured all the more speedily. We may shut our eyes and say, “I do not have sin,” but in so doing, instead of securing eternal salvation, we shall as practically give ourselves up to the destroyer as the bird…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 11 views
Plants unknown in certain regions have suddenly sprung from the soil: the seeds have been wafted on the winds, carried by birds, or washed ashore by the waves of the sea. So vital are seeds that they live and grow wherever they are borne; and even after lying deep in the soil for centuries, when the…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 38 views
The sportsman will tell you that there may be many birds in a field, but you do not know how many until you walk through. Then you discover them and see them on the wing. When the wheel turns you will be able to see the force of the current. You will see the speed of the horse when you put him to his…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 14 views
The boy is not afraid of missing his way; he trusts implicitly his father’s guidance. His father’s arm will screen him from all danger, and therefore he does not so much as give it a thought. Why should he? If care is needed as to the road, it is his father’s business to see to it, and the child, therefore,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 38 views
My observation of personal character has been somewhat wide, and I cannot help bearing my testimony that I am greatly afraid of men who make loud professions of superior sanctity. I have had the misfortune to have known, on one or two occasions, superfine brethren, who were, in their own ideas, far above…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 85 views
On one occasion I turned in by reason of the extreme severity of the rain to a little lone cottage. I found a woman there with a child who seemed somewhat relieved when she had admitted me, but previously she had been crying bitterly with sheer alarm and terror. “Why,” she said, “this is a little round…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 views
There have been some men who, puffed up with vanity, have in their hearts said, “I can do all things.” Their destruction has been sure, and near at hand. Nebuchadnezzar walks through the midst of the great city; he sees its stupendous tower threading the clouds. He marks the majestic and colossal size…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A family in Torrance, California experienced what Alfred Hitchcock brought to the cinema—hundreds of birds infesting their home. In April of 2021, hundreds of birds entered the family’s home through the chimney. Local news outlets showed the video shot by the homeowners of the “shows the pulsating flock…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Federal officials announced that a thirty-five-year effort to help the Interior Least Tern has brought the bird back from the brink of extinction. The bird survived a craze for its plumage early in the 20th century, and dam building projects along key river habitat during the mid and later part of the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
After all their other efforts failed, National Grid announced they would bring a cannon to scare away hundreds of crows that have been hanging around an electrical substation in Massachusetts. The utility company said they were removing the birds because if one landed on the wrong piece of equipment,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Animal rescuers in Maine were called to save a roadrunner that stowed away on a move from Nevada. The Avian Haven animal hospital said a man named Gary contacted them, when he and his son opened the back of the moving truck at a storage facility and discovered the bird inside. A volunteer helped the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A Chick-fil-A restaurant in Brownsville Texas welcomed a duck when it chose to nest in their parking lot. The establishment used their social media page to report that the duck, named Daisy, was living in the parking lot, and asked guests to say hello, but be respectful of her home. The restaurant posted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A Russian nature reserve said a camera disguised as a piece of tree bark to get candid shots of animals in action, was accidentally destroyed by a woodpecker. In a social media post, Nizhne-Svirsky nature Reserve in Leningrad Oblast said the black woodpecker, nicknamed Zhelna, was hunting for insects…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Sisters Susan and Kim Churchwell were worried when they discovered that their 8-year-old emu had escaped by unlatching a gate. They asked neighbors to watch for the big flightless bird. The next day a neighbor reported seeing a large bird running through the sprinkler in their yard, so the family rushed…
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 • • 3 views
One of Austin Hermsen’s friends posted his phone number on a Craigslist ad for a free turkey giveaway. The ad stated he had thirty turkeys to give away to whoever called him. While it started out as a prank, it quickly became a real event. After receiving 100 calls for free turkeys, his group of Hermsen’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
While some found the emergence of billions of cicadas in the spring and summer of 2021 annoying, David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, used the opportunity for man and nature to work together. While the insects swarmed all around, Rothenberg…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In Psychology Today, Raj Persaud, M.D. says, “This essential difference between us and animals; they get anxious, but they don’t worry, holds the secret to mental health. Rumination transforms relatively safe situations into unsafe predicaments.” https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/slightly-blighty/202010/surprising-approach-coping-covid-19-stress…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The tree selected to stand in New York’s Rockefeller Center for the 2020 Christmas season came with an unexpected guest. An employee of the company that secured and transported the tree spotted a little owl in the tree. He put it in a box and called his wife, who checked with a local wildlife center.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
British authorities said a royal tradition of counting swans along the River Thames was cancelled in 2020 due to coronavirus fears. The so-called Swan Upping usually involves measuring, weighing, and checking swans and is considered a royal affair because Queen Elizabeth II owns all unmarked swans according…