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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 36 views
If we can be saved by our own merits, we need justice, but we certainly do not want mercy. A man who can go into court with a clear case and a bold countenance does not ask for mercy from the judge, and the offer of it would insult him. “Give me justice,” he says, “give me my rights,” and he stands up…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 49 views
Think what an injury and injustice would be inflicted upon all the honest men in London if the thieves were never punished for their roguery. It would be making the innocent suffer if you allowed the guilty to escape. God, therefore, not out of arbitrary choice, but from necessity of rightness, must…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
Turn to Acts 12, where you have the record of Peter lying asleep in the prison, watched by soldiers. And yet at the dead of night, an angel of the Lord came into the prison, smote Peter on the side, bade him bind on his sandals and gird himself, and follow him. Peter went through all the doors of the…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 27 views
I saw the other day a remarkable picture, which I shall use as an illustration of the way of salvation by faith in Jesus. An offender had committed a crime for which he must die, but it was in the olden time when churches were considered to be sanctuaries in which criminals might hide themselves and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A Chinese physics professor provided traffic police with a two-page report filled with complicated equations and diagrams to prove he could not have caused a traffic accident. Police admitted they were baffled by the physics, and turned to a simpler technology. They said the professor was driving a black…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Danielle Reno said she only got out of her car for a minute to pick up her daughter, but when she did, someone jumped into her car and drove away. Reno said she filed a police report but decide to do some detective work on her own. The thief had also taken her credit and debit cards because her wallet…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 22 views
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos is the main supervillain. His goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones that he places on his gauntlet. Once he obtains all six infinity stones, he will have the ability to wipe out half existence in the entire universe. His home planet was overpopulated and depleted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The Me Too movement started when actress Alyssa Milano asked anyone who has been a victim of sexual harassment to tweet “Me Too.” The results were overwhelming. “She woke up the next morning to 55,000 replies and the hash tag trending No 1 on Twitter.” Her tweet has propelled a movement that is reshaping…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Select all the text in this box and paste your sermon here... Introduction Sermon text with italics and bold and John 3:16 and Jn 3:20. Heading 2 Text with an outline. Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
In 2017 Netflix released a highly anticipated Marvel series: The Punisher. Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, lost his family in the hands of a murderous group. To avenge his family's death, Castle went on a bloody rampage, killing everyone who was in or involved with the group responsible for the deaths…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
The old quote says that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Fair enough. Looks like there is something else that applies to all—even the powerful: jury duty. Former President Obama just got a summons to serve. And just like everyone else, he will rack up $17.25 a day for his service.—Jim L.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In one morning, New York courts threw out more than 640,000 old warrants for people ticketed for minor offenses. The move was an effort by city officials to promote what they believe is a more fair and workable approach to low level offenses. They said many of the people were unaware of the warrants…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Claudy Charles was on trial in a Miami courtroom for arson. He allegedly set his car on fire to collect insurance money. His defense attorney, Stephen Gutierrez, argued the vehicle had spontaneously combusted. Gutierrez had just begun his closing argument when smoke started billowing from his right trouser…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 80 views
Danny Duchene had been in prison for twenty years serving a double life sentence when he first read Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose Driven Life. The book changed Duchene’s life and led to the beginning of a “Purpose Driven Church” group in the prison, and the introduction of the Celebrate Recovery program,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
For the past 20 years, Stuart Dunnings III has been the top prosecutor for Ingham County, Michigan and has built a reputation as “an outspoken advocate for ending human trafficking and prostitution.” According to the state attorney general’s office Dunnings took an aggressive approach to his job and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Blaine Boyer, relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, spent ten days in November 2015 in Southeast Asian brothels, wearing a hidden camera and doing undercover work to help rescue underage sex slaves. Working through a nonprofit called the Exodus Road, Boyer, and good friend Adam LaRoche, conducted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Swiss army helicopters crossed the border into France to scoop water from a lake to help thirsty cattle. The operation took people swimming and fishing in the lake completely by surprise. Even the authorities at the lake admitted they were shocked because no one had told them the Swiss were coming. The…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Ob-Gyn doctor Camilla Hersh, founder and owner of Virginia Women’s Health Associates, explains why she is opposed to the incest exception to abortion. One patient, a pregnant 14-year-old, was brought to her. The pregnancy was the result of incest. In talking to the girl and her family the subject of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In March of 2015, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he wouldn't have swapped Terrorist prisoners for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. "I don't think I would have made the trade," said Romney on NBC's "Today Show." Bergdahl was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, about nine months…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
The sexual promiscuity that has enveloped our culture has allowed the continued spread of sexually transmitted disease in the US. “In 2012, the rate of gonorrhea rose 4 percent, and the rate of primary and secondary syphilis rose 11 percent.” Health experts worry on two levels. Most of the cases occur…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 13 views
Published January 03, 2013 | Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Call her the girl with no name. A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means "light breeze" in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A woman suspected of stealing someone’s cell phone called 911 to report that the person whom the phone belonged to would not leave her alone. When police responded they found a man and woman waiting for them at a gas station. The woman told police that the man had been napping on a Metro bus and when…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 532 views
In 2009, a high school girl named Wanetta Gibson falsely accused a High school football star named Brian Banks of rape. That accusation caused the loss of several college scholarships and a five years sentence when he could have played college football. The future after than we will never know, for he…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The courts convicted Cornealious Anderson of armed robbery and sentenced him to thirteen years in prison in 2000. The day he was sentenced, Anderson was told to wait for instructions on when and where to report to prison. When those instructions never came, Anderson went on with life and actually turned…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In his 2014 annual letter, Bill Gates makes an amazing claim: there will be almost no poor nations by 2035. The renowned co-founder of Microsoft, the largest personal computer software company in the world, is one of the world’s wealthiest philanthropists. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, “guided…