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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 32 views
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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 55 views
Perhaps there is nothing so heartrending as royalty despised. There is a story of an English king who was taken out by his cruel enemies to a ditch. They seated him on an anthill, telling him that was his throne, and then they washed his face in the filthiest puddle they could find. But think of the…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 430 views
We are sometimes apt to think that a charge that is unfounded is very cruel to us. I have heard people say sometimes, and I have laughed when I have heard them say it, “Mr. So-and-so has charged me with such-and-such a thing, but I am quite innocent. I should not have minded if I had been guilty.” I…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 15 views
I have read of a competition of certain young plowmen who were set to plow for a prize. Most of them made very crooked work of it. After they had ended, one of the judges said, “Young man, where did you look while you were ploughing?” “I kept my eyes on the plow handles, sir, and saw what I had to hold.”…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 221 views
There was a crest and motto that some of the old Reformers used to use, and that I commend to any of you who are under trial. It was an anvil with a number of hammers, all broken, lying around; and this was the motto when translated, “The anvil breaks many hammers.” And how does it do this? Not by striking:…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Wildlife officers in Colorado announced they were finally able to track down a bull elk and remove a tire that had been around the animal’s neck for at least two years. Officials said the 4-and-a-half-year-old animal was first spotted about two years ago with the tire around its neck, but they had never…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
One of the necessities of sewer and drain systems is that they flow freely to move the waste down system, and not back up into homes and businesses, and potentially damaging the environment. But sometimes they get blocked. It recently took Thames Water workers 3 weeks to clear a 40 ton “Fatburg,” in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
At the end of hundreds of pages or seven hours (nearly ten in the extended editions) Frodo is finally inside of Mt. Doom, one toss away from being rid of the ring and finished with his arduous quest. But he can’t do it. Faced with the prospect of giving up his precious, he balks, and it is only through…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
Melissa Kitcher became lost after she made a wrong turn about 3 miles into the 13.1 mile run of a half-marathon. The race director said he had no idea Kitcher was still on the course until her husband called hours later to ask about her. She said her phone had frozen before the race, but she wasn’t worried…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
Kelly and Gareth Gravell found a 3-foot-wide metal ball on a Welsh beach while on a family outing. Erin, 6 and Ellis, 4 happily clambered over the object that their parents thought was a harmless barnacle-covered buoy that had washed up on the beach. A few days later local officials discovered that it…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 43 views
Before the end of the movie, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” the Dwarf king, Thorin Oakenshield, has a choice to make. Will he stay in the Lonely Mountain protected by its massive stones gates or will he lead his Dwarven troops into battle and help the Men and Elves overcome the orcs that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Orvile Rogers says he has run over 40,000 miles in his lifetime, and even though he is 95-years- old, he has no intention of slowing down. Rogers started running after a book inspired him years ago, and started running competitively at age 90. Rogers says he has had a life-long love of running. And the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 26 views
When Ellie Hasbani lost his leg to a land mine during the civil war in Lebanon in 1975, he had no idea what he Lord would do with his life. During the war, Hasbani saw death and destruction all around him, and ended up hating his life because of what he had become. When the mine exploded, Hasbani was…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 25 views
In the fifth century, a monk named Telemachus wanted to live his life in pursuit of God, so he lived alone in the desert praying, fasting, and meditating. That was the custom, of his day. Truly spiritual people went out to be totally alone in the desert so that they could give themselves fully to God.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 17 views
Joey Lee was in the race of his life—the 150-mile Marathon Des Sables, across the Moroccan Sahara Desert. On day four, Lee was still running, though other runners had already been airlifted out after surrendering to the heat or to physical exhaustion. About 80 miles into the race, the air pockets in…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
I have a bike which is in the middle of the road price range. I didn’t buy it, actually, my brother-in-law, who is an avid biker bought it for me. It cost around $800.00. Now I know you immediately might think, “Well, I can go to Walmart and buy a bike for $49.95 any day of the week . . .” and you probably…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 92 views
Shortly after the turn of the century, Japan invaded, conquered, and occupied Korea. They overwhelmed the Koreans with a brutality that would sicken the strongest of stomachs. One group singled out for concentrated oppression was the Christians. When the Japanese army overpowered Korea one of the first…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 18 views
One runner learned this when he was competing at the Pennsylvania Relays. He was running a relay and was the lead-off man in the second lane. In the first lane was record holder for the 100-meter dash for prep school runners at the time. This guy also held a record for arrogance because when he got to…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 104 views
There are so many good ones. Lottie Moon was a Southern Baptist missionary in the late 1800's and early 1900's. When she returned to China as a missionary after her second furlough in 1904, her area of China was impoverished and undergoing a famine. She begged for more money to help, but the mission…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
If you had been reading the July 22, 1776 edition of the Boston Gazette, you would have come across a notice that read: Deserted from my company, in Col. Craft’s battalion of colony train of artillery, Michael Carrick, 31 years of age, about 5 foot 8 inches high, with a cut over his right eye brow, well…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A 69-year-old Michigan man decided to delay surgery to install a pacemaker because he did not want to miss an important college football game. Major Hester was scheduled for the surgery on the Thursday before the big game. He asked the doctors to wait until after the Michigan State game and pushed the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
SACRIFICE The latest fad for runners is known as “Ultrarunning” which features such extreme running events as a 100 mile marathon. The sport takes such a degree of commitment that some participants have permanently removed their toenails in order to eliminate one of the potential sources of runners’…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Conventional wisdom has always held that if you are looking for a good investment in a down economy; put your money in “sin” stocks. The thinking is that though people will cut spending in some areas, they will continue to spend on activities like gambling, drinking and smoking. The current US recession…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 13 views
The finest attractions of this world become deadly when we become overly attached to them. A well-known author once told this story of an account he had with sea gulls: “Several years ago our family visited Niagara Falls. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river. As I viewed the large blocks…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7,801 views
FINISHING WELL According to Professor Howard Hendricks of Dallas Theological Seminary, there are 100 or so leaders in the Bible, two-thirds of whom did not finish well. —Go the Distance p. 4 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson When King David fell, he brought shame to his entire house and his kingdom. His…