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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
That which is not appropriated can be of no use to you. Look at your food. How is it that it builds up your body? Because you take it into the mouth, and it descends into the stomach, and there it is mixed with certain fluids, and is digested, and ultimately is taken up into the system and becomes a…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 15 views • unknown
Shipwrecked 8/27/2007 There were two men shipwrecked on this island. The minute they got on to the island one of them started screaming and yelling, "We're going to die! We're going to die! There's no food! No water! We're going to die!" The second man was propped up against a palm tree and acting so…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 19 views • unknown
Colossians 4:5-6 5 When you are with unbelievers, always make good use of the time. 6 Be pleasant and hold their interest when you speak the message. Choose your words carefully and be ready to give answers to anyone who asks questions.[1] Matthew 5:13 13 You are like salt for everyone on earth. But…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 11 views • unknown
5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 136 views • unknown
When you can't trace God's hand, you can trust God's heart.
Charles Spurgeon
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 17 views
Rev. W. O. Taylor, 91, was the oldest man attending the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago. At the annual free breakfast for retirees, Brother Taylor rose and recited his own alliterative version of the parable of the prodigal son, which he entitled "The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive"
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 26 views
If a hungry person were at your door and asked for bread, you would give it to him, whatever might be his character. You will also give your child food, whatever may be his behavior. You will not deny your child anything that is necessary for life; you will never proceed in any course of discipline against…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 19 views
A certain monk went to a monastery, determined to give himself up entirely to contemplation and meditation. When he reached the place he saw all the monks at work, tilling the ground, plowing, or trimming the vines round the monastery. He very solemnly observed as he entered, “Do not work for the food…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 32 views
O, prize the word written; prizing is the way to profiting. If Caesar so valued his commentaries that for preserving them he lost his purple robe, how should we estimate the sacred oracles of God? “I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.”—Thomas Watson, in The Morning Exercises.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 8 views
Taste is a test as to things to be eaten. We prove and try an article of food by tasting it. He who goes to the market to buy cheese draws out a piece and eats it that he may judge of the bulk by the taste. So it is with anything the value of which depends upon the flavor: it has to be tasted that it…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
There is a father, and he thinks that to go to his work—such common work as his—cannot be especially pleasing in God’s sight. He means to serve God, and so he stops at home. He is upstairs in prayer when the factory bell is ringing and he ought to be there. He hears that there is a conference in the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 26 views
A national pizza chain, Villa Italian has introduced an “alternative facts pizza.” It is described as a “presidential pie topped with bacon, pepperoni, ham, sausage, homemade sauce, and whole-milk mozzarella that will have ‘zero calories.’” While this ad is obviously tongue-in-cheek, there are those…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The Disgusting Food Museum has opened in Malmo, Sweden. It features 80 foods from 35 countries considered disgusting by others. There is a maggot-infested cheese from Sardinia and durian, a stinky Southeast Asian fruit that airlines have banned on some flights. Surströmming is a Swedish fermented herring…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Trying to discover the best foods to eat for our health is not always easy. In the 18th century an Italian physician recommended ice cream as a food for different ailments. Later advertisements touted Ice Cream parlors as alternatives to saloons. In 1921 the Evening Missourian urged readers to eat ice…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
An employee alerted Jitennda Singh about a possible shoplifter in his store. Singh went to the front and confronted the young man when he came to the register to check out. When asked to empty his pockets the boy took out one item, but Singh had seen him take more on the security cameras. When Singh…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “According to the Stockholm International Water Institute, as much as 50 percent of postharvest food grains will never be eaten simply because of spoilage and improper storage. The developing world loses 50 percent of its food supply because people aren’t looking…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A researcher with the Cleveland Clinic said there is a lot of evidence suggesting that is a connection between what people eat and how they feel. Dietician Kristin Kirkpatrick said foods are colorful and fruits or vegetable tend to boost the mood. Kirkpatrick said when time are hard, people tend to turn…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Restaurant owner Robert Magiet has found a unique way to help other small food vendors on the coldest Chicago days. Magiet stops at the vendor’s carts and buys their entire inventory for the day which allows the vendors to make their daily wages and also go home and stay warm. On average, he buys 15…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When he didn’t get the sauce with his Chicken McNuggets, Robert Golwitzer allegedly called McDonalds to threaten to blow the place up. The satisfaction he might have felt was short-lived however, because the Ankeny, Iowa police arrested him for the bomb threat. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bomb-threat-mcdonalds_n_60da2b7be4b09ead19f713ce…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A visitor at a Russian shopping center captured video of a sparrow that had found its way into a store and inside the deli case. The video, recorded at the Lenta shopping center in Tyumen, shows the bird sampling several of the salads and other foods inside the case. The bird seemed oblivious to anything…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Instead of hauling the food left over after Super Bowl LIV to a landfill, over 30,000 pounds of food was used to feed the hungry people in South Florida. NFL Green organizers partnered with food recovery charities like Food Rescue US to make sure the uneaten food from Hard Rock Stadium was given to local…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
Many customers say that McDonald’s soda tastes better than soda from other fast food chains. What makes the difference? Is it the special machines? Is it the slightly larger straw? The water filtration system? The insulated and chilled tubes in the soda machine? The small additional syrup to compensate…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
When witnesses recorded what appeared to be an African serval cat wandering in Pinetops, North Carolina, residents were confused about where it came from. The owner of a local petting zoo later confirmed that the cat was an escapee named King Sparta. The owner said the serval was quickly recaptured and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
The suspect in the armed robbery of a Subway sandwich shop told police that he had robbed the store because his “Subway Diet” failed him. After 18-year-old Zachary Torrance was arrested, he confessed to the crime and said he was motivated by anger and wanted to get some of his money back. He said after…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
A 33-year-old British man, claiming it was the culmination of too many drinks in the pub, legally changed his name to Bacon Double Cheeseburger.” The risen Christ promised us a new name for those who overcome. It will be more meaningful than the name of our favorite food. –--Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…