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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 8 views
There are twenty beggars in the street and I determine to give one of them a shilling. But will anyone say that I determined to give that one a shilling, that I elected him to have the shilling, because I foresaw that he would have it? That would be talking nonsense. In like manner, to say that God elected…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 218 views
Imagine a river, full of sandbanks, with a channel that twists and turns in a tortuous fashion. There is a vessel on it with an experienced pilot on board. Even he is very anxious, and is constantly heaving the lead and frequently going at half-speed or stopping altogether. Now if a steamer with a good…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 11 views
I suppose that when the stones for the temple were quarried in the mountains, each one received a special mark from Solomon’s seal, marking it as a temple stone and perhaps denoting its place in the sacred edifice. This would be like the first inscription, “The Lord knows those who are his.” But the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
A month and a half after Election Day in 2016, Joe Chandler, from Georgia, is refusing to find out who won the presidential election. He says that on the day after the vote he woke up feeling happy and relaxed and decided not to ruin the mood by seeing the election result. So, for 6 weeks he has avoided…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A young woman entered Heartbeat of Miami Pregnancy Help Medical Clinic seeking help with an unwanted pregnancy. She was having an ultrasound done when she saw the little flutter of the heartbeat and then she heard it. She asked, “Is that, like, my heartbeat?” Lourdes McMinns, the Clinic supervisor said,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Adopted as a child and with no knowledge of her biological family Abbey Donohoe met Paula O’Brien at a party in Davenport Iowa. Despite their 11-year difference in age people said they looked like sisters. They became Facebook friends and when O’Brien made a post about her brother’s child who was given…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
An election season calls forth charges and then countercharges. An army of fact checkers head for the news to verify, fact or lie. “Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.” As believers we ought to value truth very highly. After all, it is…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
FUTURE What if you looked into the future and caught a glimpse of yourself like you would be then? This is the premise of the television drama, Flash Forward. The whole world passes out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds during which they see themselves exactly seven months into the future. --World, October…