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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 26 views • 7:19
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 51 views
If you would get a fair estimate of the happiness of any man, you must judge him in these two closely connected things: his life and his death. The heathen Solon said, “Call no man happy until he is dead, for you do not know what changes may pass upon him in life.” We add to that, “Call no man happy…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views
EXPLANATION OF GOD:
(Written by an 8-year-old in California)
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 61 views
~~~ Here's to Mom! ~~~ My mother taught me IRONY - "Keep laughing and I'll give you something to cry about." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE WHAT I HAVE - "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - "If you're going to kill each other…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 13 views • unknown
THE LORD'S PRAYER (Could be a skit for worship) Rather cleverly done. This is in two parts, The Prayer (in blue or black type) and GOD (in red type) in response. It is very, very good. ********** Our Father Who Art In Heaven. Yes? Don't interrupt me. I'm praying. But -- you called ME! Called you? No,…
Quotes
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views • unknown
From: Jim Meigs from FBC, Center Point, Alabama
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 7 views
Search Committee’s Reference checks We do not have a happy report to give. We have not been able to find a suitable candidate for this church, though we have one promising prospect. Thank you for your suggestions. We have followed up on each one with interviews or by calling at least three references.…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 28 views • unknown
3/10/2003 An Excellent point about judging people on their appearance. Too bad for >Harvard. > > >A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun >threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly >without an appointment into the Harvard University President's…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 52 views
We despise the chastening of the Lord when we despise those that God chastens. You say, “Poor old Mrs. So-and-so. The last seven years she has been bedridden; what is the good of her in the church? Would it not be a mercy if she were dead? We always have to be keeping her—someone or other giving her…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 26 views
Some of you spend Christmas day surrounded by your families. Possibly you have a large family—ten or twelve are at home on that day, with a grandchild or two. I will tell you what your greatest joy is on that day: it is to see the happiness of your children and to mark how they enjoy what you provide…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 1,455 views
I saw one the other day who was about to suffer from the surgeon’s knife. It was a serious operation, about which all stood in doubt, but I was happy to see her as composed in the prospect of it as though it had been a pleasure rather than a pain. Thus calmly resigned should a Christian be. How many…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 37 views
I believe that a life spent in God’s praise would in itself be a missionary life. That matronly sister who never delivered a sermon, or even a lecture, in all her days has lived a quiet, happy, useful, loving life, and her family has learned from her to trust the Lord. Even when she shall have passed…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
Some of the old Roman walls are compacted with such excellent cement that it would be almost impossible to separate one stone from another. In fact, the whole mass has become consolidated like a solid rock, so embedded in cement that you cannot distinguish one stone from another. Happy is the church…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
I have told you before of the bricklayer who fell off a scaffold, and was taken up so injured that it was seen that he must soon die. A good clergyman, bending over him, said, “My dear man, you had better make your peace with God.” The poor fellow opened his eyes and said, “Make my peace with God, sir?…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
How happy are we to find rest in a person! This is warm and substantial comfort. You cannot rest in the words of a doctrine as you can in the bosom of a person. Take a poor child that is lost in the street. Talk to it upon cheering themes. These ought to comfort it; but the little one goes on crying.…
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…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 19 views
A good many years ago, when I was about fifteen or sixteen years of age, I wanted a Savior, and I heard the gospel preached by a poor man who said in the name of Jesus, “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth” (Isa 45:22). It was very plain English, and I understood it and obeyed it and found…
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 • • 22 views
There is a ship at sea, fully laden. It has a precious cargo of gold on board. Happy is the kingdom that shall receive the wealth that is contained within its hold. Would you not, if you were a possessor of such a vessel, long to be safe in port? When the ship is full of treasure, well may the captain…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A ventilation problem at a Lindt chocolate factory in Olten, Switzerland created a once-in-a-lifetime event for the Swiss village. The chocolate manufacturer says the fault launched cocoa powder into the air outside the factory and wind carried it across town, leaving a fine dusting of chocolate on houses…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Alison Birch, the owner of AJ’s Salon in Stroud, Gloucestershire needed a new hair stylist. In thinking of the qualities she desired in the new employee she advertised for “happy," part-time, fully qualified, stylist.” Within hours she was contacted by the Department for Work and Pensions about her discriminatory…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The owner of a restaurant in southwest China has an unusual offer for patrons. He offers a discount to customers who can make him laugh. The owner said his discounts range from 10 percent for jokes that make him smile all the way to 50 percent for a hearty laugh. Several residents came to participate…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
The most popular college class in America today is at Yale University. Psych 157: Psychology and the Good Life is attracting 1200 students per semester. According to the professor, today’s college students are not happy, and she thinks the unhappiness extends far beyond college students. “Students are…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Albert Einstein’s theory of happiness might be relative, but it proven to valuable. A handwritten note with Einstein’s musing about happiness sold at auction for $1.3. The auction company said the great scientist was traveling in Japan in 1922 when he learned he would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In THANKS! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. writes, “A Longitudinal study of college students found that happiness levels in college predicted income sixteen years later. The most cheerful students earned $25,000 more per year than their more dour classmates.” —Jim…