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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 159 views
Sunday is a comin’!
(by S.M. Lockridge)
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 17 views
When a renowned warrior writes home after great victories, his dispatches are short and to the point; the brilliance of the news is sufficient without the light of sparkling sentences. His words are few; he has so much to tell that he does not waste a letter. His achievements are so great that they do…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
Do you see that train steaming along the iron way? See, it plunges into a cavern in yonder hill! You have now lost sight of it. Has it perished? As on an angel’s wing, you fly to the top of the hill, and you look down on the other side. There it comes steaming forth again from the tunnel, bearing its…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 60 views
Charles Borromeo, the famous bishop of Milan, ordered a painter who was about to draw a skeleton with a scythe over a sepulcher to substitute for it the golden key of Paradise. Truly this is a most fitting emblem for a believer’s tomb, for what is death but the key of heaven to the Christian? We notice…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 19 views
Suppose a corpse is before us. How great a pretender would he be who should boast that it was in his power to restore it to life! Certainly, it would be even a greater pretense if anyone should say that he could give to himself or to another the divine life, the spiritual life by which a man is made…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Michael Knapinski, 45 was hiking on Washington’s Mount Rainer when he was caught in a Blizzard. Lost in white out conditions, he became unconscious. The next afternoon a helicopter search crew spotted him and flew him to the hospital. In the helicopter they detected a very faint pulse but when they admitted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Chicago police identified a severely injured and unconscious man they found in as Alonzo Bennett. All they had for identification was an old mug shot, but Bennett’s family assented to the identification. Soon thereafter the hospitalized man died without regaining consciousness. The family planned a barbecue…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
Kurt Pilgeram of California contracted with Alcor Life Extension Foundation to cryogenically preserve his late father. People do this hoping that at some later time, after a cure for whatever killed the patient is discovered, they can be unfrozen and cured. Pilgeram discovered the company only preserved…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Allie Megan Webb runs a body care store in North Carolina. Her husband belongs to a group that hunts for the legendary Bigfoot. She claims to have invented a bottled scent that will attract any Bigfoot within 1.5 miles of the wearer. Her husband was wearing the scent, called “woodsy,” when he claimed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
The reputed tomb of Jesus Christ is underneath the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City. On October 28, 2016, conservationists, who were working to restore the tomb, found what researchers think is the original limestone burial bed of Jesus. Most researchers believe that the identification…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The FDA has just approved the Heart Mate II. Doctors implant the small device into patients’ abdomens. A turbine engine the size of a D battery provides the power and it routes oxygenated blood from the weakened heart through its turbine to the rest of the body. Using one is promising to increase the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Empty Tomb I've never been to Israel, and frankly, I've never really wanted to go. The Dean of the Seminary where I taught in Albuquerque offered to help finance a trip for me if I went with the students on an archeological dig. I said, "Thanks, but no thanks." I know, I know, it isn't normal for a preacher…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 32 views
RESURRECTION Who would you say is the most skilled lawyer of all times? According to the Guinness Book of Word Records, it is Sir Lionel Luckhoo, the winningness lawyer in the world with 245 straight murder acquittals. You would think that a lawyer with his track record would possess superior investigative…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 22 views
Nothing "What's all the fuss about?" the skeptic asked. "What are you Christians celebrating anyway?" "Nothing," I responded, absolutely "nothing." The angel of the Lord proclaimed: "He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying." (Matthew 28:6 NASB) "Nothing"…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
MYSTERY Ever since Carly Simon topped the music charts in 1972 with “You’re So Vain”, she has been quizzed about the person mentioned in the lyrics. The song tells the story of a lover who is as attractive as he is faithless and arrogant. Simon has always said she would never tell who the lyrics, “You’re…