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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 92 views
When a young man comes to college he usually has much to unlearn. If his education has been neglected, a sort of instinctive ignorance covers his mind with briars and brambles. If he has gone to some faulty school where the teaching is flimsy, his tutor has first of all to fetch out of him what he has…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 33 views
When I first began to preach, I am afraid that I used to say a great many strange things—which, of course, I do not do now. But having, on a certain occasion, said something rather striking and perhaps not quite wise, there was an excellent Christian man who wanted to set me right. He did not come and…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 14 views
Do you see that clock? That is the evidence of the time of day. The hour would be precisely the same if we did not have that evidence. Still, we find the clock of great use. So we say that good works are the best evidence of spiritual life in the soul. Is it not written, “We know that we have passed…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 11 views
Do you think that He who is willing to die is unwilling to apply the results of His passion? A man leaps into the water to bring out a drowning child. After he has brought the child alive on shore, if he happens to have a piece of bread in his pocket and the child needs it, do you think that he who rescued…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 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,…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 33 views
When you come to your table you find a variety there. Sometimes there is one dish upon it, and sometimes another, but you are never at all surprised to find the bread there every time. And perhaps we might add that there would be a deficiency if there were not salt there every time too. So there are…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Hubert Davis accepted the Head Coaching position as the North Carolina basketball coach just four days after Roy Williams retired. But he isn’t just returning to the school where he played from 1988-92 to win basketball games—he is on a mission. In 2014, he explained why he accepted the assistant coaching…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
One Million Moms want Burger King to cancel a commercial for the new meatless burger. After trying the burger, the man used an explicative to describe the taste of the burger. The mom group says Burger King should have chosen to edit out the cuss word. Yes, it is a mild one, but they believe it is one…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
A candy company stuck to its word and sent a man from Texas a Louisville Slugger baseball glove 60 years after a contest began. Darwin Day was cleaning and found a complete collection of Topps baseball cards from 1957 and 58. The cards had belonged to his brother who had died of cancer earlier in the…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 84 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 • • 27 views
Police in Connecticut say they were surprised when a man charged with stealing a television set twenty-seven years ago flew all the way from Florida and turned himself in. When 60-year-old Randy Iannacone heard that there was a warrant for his arrest, he immediately turned himself in. At the police station,…


Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 35 views
How many things there are in the world, which we have upon our tables and which we even eat, that if we were to put beneath our microscope we should be afraid to touch! For we should see all kinds of loathsome creatures creeping and crawling about in them—such things as we never conceived! And so it…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Janine LeDoux was closing up shop at a Denver area sandwich shop, when she noticed a wallet in the parking lot. LeDoux picked it up and began trying to find the owner. She got the name from the cards inside and as she searched, she realized that the only Bradley James Roby in the area was a cornerback…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
Brad Barrett, the general manager at Lilly’s on the Lake in Clermont, Florida decided to clean house and fire thirteen employees in one fell swoop. He did it by sending the following text: "Hello Everyone, As you know we are making some changes and moving in a new direction in the restaurant and because…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 40 views
Do you remember Pig Pen, the character from the Peanuts comic strip that walked around with a cloud of dust surrounding him? Well it turns out; we all have such a cloud surrounding us. “Every human body is surrounded by an invisible cloud of millions of microbes that is as unique as our fingerprints.”…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 33 views
Mike Vegas ordered pizza and wings from a pizza company. He only had time to eat one slice of pizza before he left for work, so he put the rest of the order in the refrigerator to eat later. While he was at work that night, he kept getting message on his cell phone, but he didn’t pay any attention to…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Pamela Hedges and her husband Gibb owned a family business for many years until selling it two years ago. They admit they experienced the common problems any business owner faces, including employees stealing money. Recently they say the received a letter from a former employee who confessed that she…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
An Australian judge has ruled that a former janitor and student can keep over $76,000 of the money he found in a bathroom he was cleaning. Chamindu Amarsinghe was speechless when he received the news because he was sure someone would come forward to claim the cash. When Amarsinghe found the cash, he…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
How serious do we chase after the things we really want? A Palestinian in Gaza is willing to pay triple the normal price for Kentucky Fried Chicken. The delivery includes a border trip into Egypt to get the food. Then it is taken through a smuggling tunnel to a front door delivery in Gaza. Because of…
Bible Study
Andrew Norvelle • Illustration • • 253 views
Do you see what I see? Purpose: To walk circumspectly, being aware of the traps that seek to draw us from God's goal in our lives. 2 Kings 6:17 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And the Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 54 views
Many believers in Colorado where excited when the Denver Broncos selected quarterback Tim Tebow during the first round of 2010 NFL draft. Most of these people were excited by the pick not so much for what Tebow brings to the team, but rather by what his life represents. Tebow is an all-American, Heisman…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Speaking at an event at the Grammy Museum in California recently, former drummer for the Beatles, Ringo Starr announced that he had found God. Starr said his road to enlightenment had been long and winding. He admitted that he had lost his way when he was younger, experimenting with drugs, and later…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 3,015 views
Charles Spurgeon said this about worldliness in the church: I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present time has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.” He further said: /Put your finger on any prosperous page in the Church’s…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 21 views
Ken Meyers on avoiding temptation: I believe that the challenge of living with popular culture may well be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the saints of earlier centuries…Enemies that come loudly and visibly are usually much easier to fight than those that are undetectable.…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 9 views
The action of repentance is always inward. The consequences of repentance are always outward.