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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 56 views • 9:47
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 13 views
A Christian guy named Bill saw an ad online for a Christian horse, so out of curiosity he went to check it out. The horse’s owner said, “He’s very gently and so easy to ride. When you get on just say, ‘Praise the Lord!’ to make him go and ‘Amen!’ to make him stop.” Bill got on the horse and said, “Praise…
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 • • 5 views
When I was visiting one of our sick friends he uttered a sentence that stuck to me. He said, “I have had some education for heaven in attending the Metropolitan Tabernacle.” “How is that?” “Because I have been used to worship with a great company of godly people, used to join in the songs of great multitudes,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 63 views
In some of the houses not far from here, I noticed some linnets in cages, in which there were tufts of grass or small branches of trees as perches for the poor prisoners; yet they were singing away right merrily. I suppose that grass and those fragments of trees were meant to remind them, in this great,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 46 views
I might illustrate the willfulness of many a supplication by that of a little boy who was very diligent in saying his prayers, but was at the same time disobedient, ill-tempered, and the pest of the house. His mother told him that she thought it was mere hypocrisy for him to pretend to pray. He replied,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Amusement park owners in Japan are taking a possibly impossible step in social distancing. All customers should maintain social distance, keep conversations to a minimum, and keep the mouths closed while on park thrill rides. That is the hard part. One of the rides travels at 112 mph, another is the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In Argentina, bars have been allowed to reopen while churches are still limited to just 10 people. One Argentine pastor decided he would turn his church, The Comunidad Redentor evangelical church in San Lorenzo into a bar. Pastors will carry around trays with Bibles to replicate the actions of waiters.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
While protests filled the streets of many cities in the United States, a peaceful movement began on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee centering on prayer and worship. The initiative began when 1,000 churches partnered for thirty days of prayer and fasting for the city. Organizers had a vision of bringing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
In the book, The God Who Knows Your Name Max Lucado writes, “Worship is when you’re aware that what you’ve been given is far greater than what you can give. Worship is the awareness that were it not for his touch, you’d still be hobbling and hurting, bitter and broken. Worship is the half-glazed expression…
Worship
Worship Team • Worship Team - 9am • Illustration • • 431 views
CCLI Song Number 7119315
Author(s): Jonathan David HelserMelissa HelserMolly SkaggsJake Stevens
Recorded by: The Martin Family
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Mass fainting by rock-concert audiences is a well-recognized phenomenon, seen since the time of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. Research done on the why of this phenomenon points to hyperventilation – deep or rapid breathing – when overcome with emotion and reduced blood flow from the effects of prolonged…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
It was his last round of golf. Bob Bender, after playing golf for 65 years got his first hole-in-one. He didn’t get to finish the round because his hip starting hurting him. When a newspaper reporter asked him about the 152-yard perfect shot off of his 5-wood, he replied, “’the Lord knew’ this was his…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When he was in college, Britton Colquitt developed an alcohol problem. Several alcohol-related incidents led to his arrest and multiple suspensions from the University of Tennessee. Eventually the football coach yanked his scholarship, suspended him for the first five games of his senior season, and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 339 views
Before Michael Jackson’s death, he went on the Oprah Winfrey show to do an interview. As part of the interview, Oprah showed Jackson video clips of how people responded to him during his concerts all over the world. In his book, The Air I Breath, Louie Giglio wrote, “In multiple cultures, mobs of people…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In his book, Thanks: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make you Happier, Robert Emmons 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 lore per year than their more dour classmates.” —Jim…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Wu Hsia had an important decision to make. He and his girlfriend Rong Tsao had arranged to meet a former girlfriend, Jun Tang at a riverside park. Their intent was to tell the ex to stop trying to break them up. But Jun, trying to prove that Wu still loved her, jumped into the river and screamed for…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 46 views
A gospel song saved a 10-year-old Atlanta boy from his kidnapper. Willie Myrick was in his front yard and bent down to pick up money when somebody grabbed him and threw him in a car. The little boy began to sing a gospel song called “Every Praise.” Myrick said that the kidnapper started cursing and repeatedly…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 43 views
In an attempt to attract more women, the regional authorities in southern Taiwan have built a church in the shape of a massive high-heeled shoe. The shape of the building is a poor excuse for going to church. Further investigation discovers it is a government building designed to bring brides to the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Being obsessed with taking pictures all the time may damage a person’s ability to remember them. Dr. Linda Henkel from Fairfield University says her research has uncovered what she calls the “photo-taking impairment effect.” Henkel says many people are so eager to get a picture that they miss what is…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 45 views
After a huge fire destroyed his home near Colorado Springs, Ted Robertson went to inspect the damage with the hope of finding one very special small item. Robertson didn’t expect to find much when he saw that the fire had stripped the pine trees of their needles and colored them black and only the brick…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
On October 13, 2012 Los Angeles experienced a once in a lifetime opportunity. It was the space shuttle Endeavor transported southbound on Crenshaw Blvd and then eastbound on Martin Luther King Blvd. The crowds were enormous and people came from miles around. Many slept in their cars overnight to experience…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
After a fire broke out in the engine room of the cruise ship, Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico, 400-plus passengers and crew endured several days of hardship before the ship could be towed back to port. Joseph and Cecilia Alvarez were among the passengers on that cruise. On the morning the fire broke out,…