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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 16 views
Barna: Doctrinal confusion abounds; Mohler: Church is key to discipleship Oct 14, 2002 By Michael Foust LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Seventy-nine percent of Americans profess a belief in the Trinity, while 74 percent reject the concept of original sin; 59 percent say Satan is merely a symbol of evil; and nearly…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 26 views
I am afraid that many of us are like the children at school, who have a good, fair copy set them at the top of the page, and the next line is written to imitate the copy, and the next imitates the imitation of the copy, and as it gets to the bottom of the page—alas! poor writing—how unlike it is to the…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 19 views
It is life that grows. Put a bar of iron into the best soil that you can find, water it, and manure it, and let the genial sun shine upon it, but never a leaf or a rootlet will you find upon it, for it is dead. It is not so with the Christian man. Because of the life that is in him, he must grow. Spurgeon,…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 24 views
I will never forget Ted Stone
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
The full-grown man is stronger than the babe. His sinews are knit; his bones have become more full of solid material; they are no longer soft and cartilaginous, there is more solid matter in them. So with the advanced Christian; he is no longer to be bent about and twisted; his bones are as iron, and…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 46 views
The youthful artist, as he grasps his early pencil, can hardly hope to equal Raphael or Michelangelo, but still, if he did not have a noble ideal before his mind, he would only attain to something very mean and ordinary. Heavenly fingers point us to the Lord Jesus as the great exemplar of His people,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 29 views
Familiarity with Christ soon begets congeniality of disposition and spirit, for those who are much with Christ become much like Christ. He who lies on a bed of spices will naturally find his garments smell of the same. A mirror upon which the sun is shining is bright itself and flashes its reflected…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
19-year-old Adnan Khurram impersonated a doctor at one of India’s top hospitals for five months. Khurram wore a lab coat and carried a stethoscope as he routinely chatted with patients at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Even though he had no medical training he impressed the staff…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
MENTORING Discipleship needs the kind patterning that can only happen in healthy and authentic Christian relationships. Jim Wilder wisely observes, “Who we love has far more impact on character than what we believe.” — Jim Wilson and Jon R. Pennington --Jim Wilder, Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
TV producer Cliff McDowell hopes his new animated series will help children learn to pray, build a relationship with God, and deal with common childhood struggles. McDowell created a 26-part series called “Sea Kids,” which is about a group of underwater character with bright colors and inspiring storylines.…
Messages of Hope
Rev. Anthony M. Cook • Illustration • • 7 views
Are we falling asleep like the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane?
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
An Arizona man, Matthew Disbro, flipped on the police lights of his black Dodge Charger to pull over a flashy yellow Ford Mustang containing two men. The problem was the two men in the Mustang were police officers and Disbro is not. The real police officers charged the fake policeman with impersonating…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 24 views
In Colorado Josiah Carelse poured a bowl of Quaker granola from a box he purchased at Walmart the week before. Carelse said that he noticed a funny taste and it tasted very stale. Well, no wonder. The sell-by date on the box was 21 years ago. Carelse said he felt fine after eating the ancient oats but…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Boerne, Texas may hold the easiest race there is to enter and complete. The race, run in May, is a 0.5k very mini-marathon. The 546-yard race features a rest stop at the halfway point where runners can refill on coffee and doughnuts. Upon completing the race, all runners received a T-shirt and an oval…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 44 views
Some of us are always looking for a shortcut to physical fitness. Now there are some possible solutions on the horizon. Scientists are testing compounds that they can put into a pill to produce the same effects as exercise. One proposed pill would give us more endurance and weight control, without the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 50 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship.” —Jim L. Wilson Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, 91. Philippians 3:10 (HCSB) My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
David Knowles must be a good teacher. The 77-year-old retired nurse was teaching CPR to fellow church members in southern England when he went into cardiac arrest. As he lay on the floor he gave further instruction to his trainees on how to help him before he lost consciousness. One class member, Karol…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Dovey is a 4-year-old shar-pei living with a loving family in Oklahoma. When she began vomiting and losing weight the family took her to the veterinarian. An x-ray of Dovey’s stomach revealed not only her health problem but solved the mystery of the disappearing pacifiers. The x-ray showed 7 to 9 pacifiers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 187 views
In Discipleship Uncomplicated, Warren Haynes writes, “Take a moment and consider that the God of the universe who put the stars in place, who determined the boundaries of the seas, who created gravity and every living thing not only knows your name—He calls you by name.” –Jim L. Wilson Philippians 4:3…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 36 views
When Warren Haynes was twelve years old, his 70-year-old neighbor Connie Roberts invited him have breakfast with her, followed by going to Sunday School at her local church. Haynes accepted her invitation and began a long-time friendship with her, and a lifelong friendship with Jesus Christ. Discipleship…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Theunis Wessels had just one thing on his mind. He was mowing his lawn while his wife was warning him about the massive tornado swirling in the background. Nothing was going to keep Wessels from completing his planned labor. He explained that he was keeping an eye on the tornado. After he finished the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Venezuelan Adrian Solano nearly fell at the starting gate of the Nordic World Ski Championships in Finland. Then after a wobbling start, he took a tumble at one of the first curves, repeatedly falling while making it about one-third the way around the course before he ran out of time. An examination…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 78 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “. . . only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.” —Jim L. Wilson Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, 63. John 14:23 (HCSB) Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Brotherly forgiveness makes room for the forgiveness of Jesus to enter into their common life. Instead of seeing their neighbours as men who have injured them, they see them as men for whom Christ has won forgiveness on the cross. They meet on…