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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxon • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 41 views • 8:51
Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 32 views • 9:45
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 172 views • unknown
The story of the painting, The Last Supper, is >> > > > > > extremely interesting and instructive. The two >> > > > > > incidents connected with it afford a most convincing >> > > > > > lesson on the effects of right thinking or wrong >> > > > > > thinking in the life of a boy or girl, or of a man >>…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 395 views
It is said to have been the distinguishing mark of Caesar as a soldier that he never said to his followers “Go!” but he always said “Come!” Of Alexander, also, it was noted that in weary marches he was sure to be on foot with his warriors, and in fierce attacks he always was in the vanguard. The most…
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 • • 128 views
People can tell lies when they hold their tongues. There was a little girl at school who always held her hand up when the boys and girls were asked to show that they knew the answer to any question that had been put to them. One afternoon she held her hand up when she did not know the answer, and a classmate…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 18 views
You know how a judge will stop a witness when he begins to say what others have told him: “No, no,” he says, “what did you see yourself? What do you know about this business on your own account? I do not want to know what others said to you about it.” So is it with the message delivered from the pulpit.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 47 views
We read in olden times of many of the most eminent servants of God being dressed in the poorest manner. When good Bishop Hooper was led out to be burnt, he had been long in prison, and his clothes were so gone from him that he borrowed an old scholar’s gown, full of rags and holes, that he might put…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 14 views
You say that he is “a rewarder of those who seek him”; do you despise the reward? Are you content with having made a profession of religion? Some professing Christians remind me of the reply of the child who was asked at the Sunday school about her father, who never went to any place of worship. “Is…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 views
What strength holy living in his people gives to the preacher of the word of God! Imagine a man comes before you and says, “There is, somewhere about here, an invisible lake, containing the purest, coolest, and most refreshing water that you ever drank. You never saw water so pure and delicious.” We…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
A person asked me one day, “Is not such-and-such a person a Baptist?” I replied, “I do not know him.” He said, “He is a fellow who says a very long grace before his dinner, and he goes to such-and-such a chapel.” “Well,” I answered, “If he goes there, he certainly attends a Baptist chapel.” Then he said,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
A “richly supplied” entrance has sometimes been illustrated in this way. You see yonder ship. After a long voyage, it has neared the haven, but is much injured; the sails are rent to ribbons, and it is in such a forlorn condition that it cannot come up to the harbor: a steam-tug is pulling it in with…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In the annual Gallup poll regarding how honest and ethical most Americans rate different professions the clergy doesn’t come out looking very good. Only 42% of Americans view the clergy as high or very high in honesty and ethics. It has been declining every year since 2009. One reason for the decline…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Historian Tom Holland’s new book, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Basic, 2019) tells the amazing story of how a culture that had esteemed only big winners began to care about (in worldly terms) big losers. This is the story of the Gospels. One example begins with a description…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In an opinion piece in the Times Free Press author Roger Smith comments on the tremendous educational opportunity offered to American children without the accompanying ethical teaching that gives education direction. In the article Smith quotes General Omar Bradley as writing, "We have grasped the mystery…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In the current culture of expanding abortion rights it is refreshing to read the story of a person whose views changed to no longer support abortion. Trillia Newbell is the director of community outreach for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Newbell says,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Nancy Pearcey is The Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University. She is a vocal proponent of Intelligent Design and attributes much of the sexual and gender confusion in our culture to the lack of a belief in a designed order to nature. In her new book, Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Syash Dixit, a computer coder from India, has declared himself king of an 800 square mile section of a previously unclaimed desert in North Africa. When the British drew the boundary between Sudan and Egypt in the late 19th century no nation had ever claimed the land, so it was available to anyone willing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Massachusetts resident Chris Robarge was surprised when a former landlord contacted him asking for his current address. He was even more surprised when he received a letter from his former landlord with a check for $2500 inside. His former landlord told Robarge he had sold the house and explained that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Waste collection workers in Ohio were able to find and return $25,000 cash that a family accidentally threw away while helping their grandmother clean her home. Officials said they got a call from the family when they realized the money had accidentally been thrown in the trash just before the truck…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
The owners of a Michigan butcher shop were horrified when they realized they had misplaced an envelope containing all the day’s receipts. Tim Sobie, owner of Sobie Meats said he and his wife were frantically searching for the misplaced deposit bag after they dropped it somewhere inside or outside the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Luke Maye, whose game-winning shot propelled the Tar Heels into the 2017 Final Four doesn’t just excel on the court. In 2018, Coach Hubert Davis said this about him, “[he] really is an example on the court and off the court and you always want to be an example of Christ in the way that you walk and everything…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Police Chief Joshua Potvin lost his law enforcement license after the Main Criminal Justice discovered that he had an officer text him while he was in a meeting. He created a cover story by entering a false entry about a suspicious person at the Fryeburg fairgrounds, using a fairgrounds employee’s license…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Michael O’Brien is a Canadian Author and painter. He leaned toward atheism as a teenager and became a Catholic at age 21. In answer to an interview question about his novels concerning the development of totalitarian government he gave this answer. “Totalitarian systems have three things in common: the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Ob-Gyn doctor Camilla Hersh, founder and owner of Virginia Women’s Health Associates, explains why she is opposed to the incest exception to abortion. One patient, a pregnant 14-year-old, was brought to her. The pregnancy was the result of incest. In talking to the girl and her family the subject of…