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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 15 views
Did you ever know a boy without an excuse? I never did. I think I never knew a girl either. We all make excuses readily enough. But those rough, surly pedagogues always answered the boy’s idle apologies by giving the offender an extra stroke of the whip for daring to impose upon his guardian. That is…
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,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Danny Holmes is guilty of robbery, kidnapping, murder, and a few other crimes. He has been in jail for a while now; he committed the crimes in 2016. One day recently he looked at a notebook on which he’d written the lyrics to the song “Redeemed” by Big Daddy Weave. The words were, “Then you look at this…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When six armed men in Belgium tried to rob a shop, the shopkeeper gave them some advice. He advised them that if they wanted to rob him they should do so at closing time when he would have more money. Incredibly, they agreed to postpone the robbery. The merchant then alerted police. When they returned…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Authorities in Indiana said a man who robbed a gas station and took food, drinks, and cigarettes probably should have taken something else too. State Police arrested 33-yer-old Sean Harris after finding him stranded by the side of a highway when his car ran out of gas. The Police arrested Harris just…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
After sealing thousands of dollars of electronic equipment from the Mount Olive AME Zion Church in Waterbury, Connecticut, the thief left behind a note that said, "Pray 4 Me!! Sorry brothers. Save me." Members of the church responded by praying for him. —Jim L. Wilson https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/church-burglar-leaves-apology-note-theft-equipment-57311451…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 48 views
University of Rochester quarterback Daniel Bronson’s biggest play was not on the football field. The 21-year-old junior was leaving a restaurant when he saw a man run past a 73-year-old woman and snatch her purse as he passed. Bronson began chasing the man, who dropped the purse but keep running. Bronson…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Tequila Isaacson is an Idaho woman who was traveling on a Washington State highway. She was at a rest stop when a Pickup truck in the parking lot next to a coffee shop caught on fire. While the boy’s parents worked to get him out and another man called 911, Isaacson began searching for a fire extinguisher.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 48 views
Police in New Jersey are looking for a man who tried to steal $2 worth of gasoline. Police say the suspect was carrying a gas can when he approached an attendant outside a gas station, pulled a knife and demanded $2 in gasoline. When the attendant refused to comply, the suspect ran away. Authorities…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 35 views
Italian police investigating drug crimes discovered two Van Gogh paintings that vanished in a 2002 robbery. The paintings were found in a farmhouse where police seized over $22 million worth of assets. The director of the Van Gogh Museum Axel Rueger said investigators had contacted them so that art experts…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
While an Albuquerque TV news crew was preparing a story about crime in the city, a thief drove off in the station’s SUV. Michelle Donaldson, News director for KOB television said the crew was reporting on recent concerns about crime and safety, and one of the issues in the report was an increase in auto…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
When Greg Carlson’s Las Vegas taco shop was burglarized, he deiced to turn the footage into a television commercial. Security footage shows three men breaking into the closed restaurant and ransacking it, looking for cash or other valuables. Carlson was alerted by an alarm system, and found the glass…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Larry Ripple stole $3000 from a Kansas City bank at gunpoint. Then he sat down in the bank lobby, told a security guard, “I am the guy you are looking for,” and waited for police. He then confessed to police that he had earlier argued with his wife and told her “he’d rather be in jail than at home.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Devonte Levoris Pace and two accomplices allegedly staged a holdup outside a bar and robbed the men in a car of about $600. Police promptly arrested Pace without any problem of identification. It seems Pace dropped his own wallet, with his ID in it, in the process of committing the robbery. When we think…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Steven Felton, 34, was arrested for 10 armed robberies. Multiple security cameras caught his bare face with him holding a pellet gun and demanding money. In his defense he claimed his “evil twin” had carried out the robberies. Neither the jury nor the judge believed him and he was convicted by the jury…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 48 views
The 24-room Wyndclyffe Castle that inspired the phrase “Keeping up with the Joneses” is for sale. The mansion was built in 1853 and was the summer residence of socialite Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones. The elegance of the property is believed to have prompted the owners of nearby estates to build even…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
James Kelly is serving a 10-year sentence for using his own ID to steal from another Verizon customer with the same name as his. He is seeking $72 million in damages from Verizon because they didn’t prevent the theft. In the garden Adam blamed God for giving him Eve, Eve blamed the serpent. James Kelly…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Twenty-seven years after he stole a Color TV from the Norwalk, Connecticut Jewish Center, Randy Iannacone turned himself in to the police, who booked him for the crime. Though the Jewish Center closed in April of 1989, the 60-year old man still is working to make things right. –Jim L. Wilson http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-turns-self-stealing-tv-1989-n555411…
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 • • 2 views
When Judge Carl Fox was a North Carolina district attorney, he successfully prosecuted Charles Alston for armed robbery. Alston received a 25 year sentence. When Fox was recently diagnosed with blood cancer and in need of a bone marrow donation, he got a surprising letter from Alston. Alston wrote, “I…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Astronomers watched as an asteroid passed about 1.5 million miles from Earth, and were excited how much wealth it might contain. The asteroid, known as 2011 UW-158, could be carrying as much as $5.4 trillion worth of precious metals and minerals. Astronomers looking at the half-kilometer wide space rock…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Authorities in the Chicago area say they are still searching for a man who allegedly took $75 out of a photo booth at an amusement park. The booth is designed to take pictures of anyone who tries to manipulate or damage it in any way. It snapped several pictures of the suspect which were left behind…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Footage from surveillance cameras from two businesses located near each other show a man who tied to rob both of them came up empty handed. The suspect, a Hispanic man in his twenties, first walked into a convenience store and demanded money. He was holding a potato disguised as a gun. The thief fled…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
An Ohio man chose to wear a sign proclaiming that he was a thief, rather than go to jail for his crime. Greg Davenport pleaded no-contest to theft charges for shoplifting at a local Wal-Mart. A municipal judge found Davenport guilty and gave him the option of wearing the sign outside the store eight…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Police in Northern California say a man robbed a local gas station and then returned a few hours later to return the money he had taken. Authorities say 23-year-old Cyle Abbott Jr. told officers that he took the money because he wanted to leave town and make a fresh start. Later, when he thought about…