Lust – Charles H Spurgeon
Lust – Charles H Spurgeon Our lusts are cords. Fiery trials are sent to burn and consume them. Who fears the flame which will bring him liberty from bonds intolerable? Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Love Of God Shed Abroad By The Holy Ghost – Charles H Spurgeon
Love Of God Shed Abroad By The Holy Ghost – Charles H Spurgeon Frequently at the great Roman games, the emperors, in order to gratify the citizens of Rome, would cause sweet perfumes to be rained down upon them through the awning which covered the amphitheatre. Behold the vases, the huge vessels of perfume! Yes, […]
Longings Of The Soul Often Painful – Charles H Spurgeon
Longings Of The Soul Often Painful – Charles H Spurgeon Have you never seen a caged eagle with its breast or wing bleeding from blows received by dashing against the wire of its cage? The poor creature dreamed of the forest and the craggy rock, and, filled with aspirations for sublimest flight, it stretched its […]
Lives Wrecked – Charles H Spurgeon
Lives Wrecked – Charles H Spurgeon Sailing down the Thames one occasionally sees a green flag in tatters, inscribed with the word WRECK, floating in the breeze over a piece of a mast, or the funnel of a steamer which is just visible above the water. Alas! how many lives might thus be marked, and […]
Little Things Whereunto They May Grow – Charles H Spurgeon
Little Things Whereunto They May Grow – Charles H Spurgeon When the air balloon was first discovered, a matter-of- fact gentleman contemptuously asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another:: ‘What is the use of a new-born infant? It may 6ecome a man.’ This anticipation of […]
Light Detested By The Wicked – Charles H Spurgeon
Light Detested By The Wicked – Charles H Spurgeon A sluttish housemaid when scolded for the untidiness of the chambers exclaimed, ‘I’m sure the rooms would be clean enough if it were not for the nasty sun which is always showing the dirty corners.’ Thus do men revile the gospel because it reveals their own […]
Life To Be Viewed In Reference To Its End – Charles H Spurgeon
Life To Be Viewed In Reference To Its End – Charles H Spurgeon The way is good, says Chrysostom, if it be to a feast, though through a dark and miry lane; if to an execution not good, though through the fairest street of the city. Non qua sed quo. Not the way but the […]
Life Uncertain Tenure Of – Charles H Spurgeon
Life Uncertain Tenure Of – Charles H Spurgeon There is a talk of giving fixity of tenure in Ireland; can they find it in England, or for the matter of that, in all the world? No, we are all tenants, liable to be ejected without an hour’s notice. How death must laugh at our leases […]
Life Uncertainty Of – Charles H Spurgeon
Life Uncertainty Of – Charles H Spurgeon ‘It fareth with most men’s lives, as with the sand in a deceptive hour-glass; look but upon it in outward appearance, and it seemeth far more than it is, because it riseth up upon the sides, whilst the sand is empty and hollow in the midst thereof:, so […]
Life Spiritual – Charles H Spurgeon
Life Spiritual – Charles H Spurgeon How like to a Christian a man may be and yet possess no vital godliness! Walk through the British Museum, and you will see all the orders of animals standing in their various places, and exhibiting themselves with the utmost possible propriety. The rhinoceros demurely retains the position in […]
Life Reviewed – Charles H Spurgeon
Life Reviewed – Charles H Spurgeon Here is a good searching question for a man to ask himself as he reviews his past life:: Have I written in the snow? Will my life-work endure the lapse of years and the fret of change? Has there been anything immortal in it, which will survive the speedy […]
Life Power Of The Inner – Charles H Spurgeon
Life Power Of The Inner – Charles H Spurgeon On a winter’s day I have noticed a row of cottages, with a deep load of snow on their several roofs; but as the day wore on, large fragments began to tumble from the eaves of this one and that other, till, by-and-by, there was a […]
Life The Hidden – Charles H Spurgeon
Life The Hidden – Charles H Spurgeon Standing by the telegraphic wires one may often hear the mystic wailing and sighing of the winds among them, like the strains of an Aolian harp, but one knows nothing of the message which is flashing along them. Joyous may be the inner language of those wires, swift […]
Life The Power Of An Earnest – Charles H Spurgeon
Life The Power Of An Earnest – Charles H Spurgeon The upper galleries at Versailles are filled with portraits, many of them extremely valuable and ancient. These are the likenesses of the greatest men of all lands and ages, drawn by the ablest artists. Yet most visitors wander through the rooms with little or no […]
Life The Need Of The Sinner – Charles H Spurgeon
Life The Need Of The Sinner – Charles H Spurgeon WE visited two palaces in Venice, and realized the contrast of life and death. The first was tenanted by a noble family, who delighted to maintain it in good repair, to adorn it with fresh beauties, and to furnish it in the most sumptuous manner. […]
Life Explains Religion – Charles H Spurgeon
Life Explains Religion – Charles H Spurgeon ONE of our party greatly needed some elder-flower water for her face upon which the sun was working great mischief. It was in the Italian town of Varallo, and not a word of Italian did I know. I entered a chemist’s shop and surveyed his drawers and bottles, […]
Life Of Tre Believer Interesting – Charles H Spurgeon
Life Of Tre Believer Interesting – Charles H Spurgeon I heard a gentleman assert that he could walk almost any number of miles when the scenery was good; but, he added, ‘When it is flat and uninteresting, how one tires!’ What scenery enchants the Christian pilgrim; the towering mountains of predestination, the great sea of […]
Life – Charles H Spurgeon
Life – Charles H Spurgeon John Mackintosh thus writes to his biographer, Norman Macleod:: ‘May it not be said that the movement of our age is towards life? I sometimes fancy that I can discern three epochs in the Reformed Churches, corresponding in the main to those three weighty epithets: via, yenta:, vita. The Reformers […]
Lethargy Of Soul – Charles H Spurgeon
Lethargy Of Soul – Charles H Spurgeon Two of my hearers perished by a fire in their own house. They were not consumed by the flames, but they were suffocated by the smoke. No blaze was ever visible, nor could any remarkable sign of fire be seen from the Street, yet they died as readily […]
LAUDER— to be Despised-Charles Spurgeon
LAUDER— to be Despised – Charles Spurgeon One of our ancient nobility had inscribed over his castle gate these words, which we commend to all persons who are thin-skinned in the matter of private gossip or public opinion. THEY SAY. WHAT DO THEY SAY? LET THEM SAY. (LANDER- How to Overcome it. Some person reported […]
LlGHTFOOT observes – Charles Spurgeon
LlGHTFOOT observes – Charles Spurgeon “Yokefellows, indeed, are the Jew and Romanist above all people of the world, in a de- lauded fancying their own bravery and privilege above all the world besides. He that comes to read the Jewish writings, especially those that are of the nature of sermons, will find this to be […]
Looking for trie – Charles H Spurgeon
Looking for trie – Charles H Spurgeon I was told of a poor peasant on the Welsh mountains who, month after month, year after year, through a long period of declining life, was used every morning, as soon as he awoke, to open his casement window, towards the cast, and look out to see if […]
Listen Slowly-George Mueller
Listen Slowly-George Mueller Writer Charles Swindoll once found himself with too many commitments in too few days. He got nervous and tense about it. “I was snapping at my wife and our children, choking down my food at mealtimes, and feeling irritated at those unexpected interruptions through the day,” he recalled in his book Stress […]
Let Go of Your Works
Let Go of Your Works A traveler upon a lonely road was set upon by bandits who robbed him of everything he had. They then led him into the depths of the forest. There, in the darkness, they tied a rope to the limb of a great tree, and bade him catch hold to the […]
Literal Meaning
Literal Meaning “We understand, of course, that there are times the Bible uses figurative language. For example, Jesus is called the Lamb of God 28 times in the book of Revelation. This does not mean that He is a literal lamb. The term lamb, in reference to Christ, is intended to give us a symbolic picture […]
Letter from President Madison
Letter from President Madison In his old age, President James Madison suffered from many ailments and took a variety of medicines. It is said that a longtime friend from a nearby county sent him a box of vegetable pills, one of his own home remedies, asking to be informed if they brought relief. In time he received […]
Love and Peaceful Living
Love and Peaceful Living Abraham Lincoln won the presidency of a divided country. There were four major candidates in 1860, and Lincoln only narrowly received his electoral majority. Among his harshest critics was Edwin Stanton of Ohio who opposed Lincoln’s election, calling him among other things the “original gorilla.” Yet Lincoln asked Stanton to serve […]
Logic of a County Worker
Logic of a County Worker Farmer Jack watched two men park their county truck on the side of the road. One man got out and dug a hole, then moved a few feet and dug another. The other man followed, filling in each hole. The farmer called, “What’s going on with all the digging?” “We work for […]
Low Self Esteem
Low Self Esteem In 2004, Dove commissioned a study that interviewed women around the globe asking them what they thought about beauty. Only 2% of the women described themselves as beautiful. A companion article quoted Angelina Jolie as saying, “I struggle with low-self esteem all the time. I think everyone does. I have so much […]
Loveliness of Christ Universal – Charles Spurgeon
Loveliness of Christ Universal – Charles Spurgeon IT generally happens that to the noblest building there is an unhappy point of view from which the architecture appears at a disadvantage; the choicest piece of workmanship may not be equally complete in all directions; the best human character is deformed by one flaw, if not with […]
Loveliness of Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Loveliness of Christ – Charles Spurgeon I AM an engraver this morning, and I seek somewhat whereon I may engrave this heavenly line. Shall I take unto me ivory or silver? Shall I borrow crystal or gold? These are too common to bear this unique inscription: I put them all aside. Shall I spell my […]
Love to God the return of his Love to us – Charles Spurgeon
Love to God the return of his Love to us – Charles Spurgeon LOVE to God is like a great mountain. The majority of travelers view it from afar, or traverse the valley at its base: a few climb to a halting-place on one of its elevated spurs, whence they see a portion of its […]
Love to Christ not Unselfish – Charles Spurgeon
Love to Christ not Unselfish – Charles Spurgeon THERE are two gentlemen of equal rank in society, and the one is not at all obliged to the other; now, they, standing on an equality, can easily feel a unselfish admiration of each other’s character, and a consequent unselfish affection; but I, a poor sinner, by […]
Love to Christ Implanted by God – Charles Spurgeon
Love to Christ Implanted by God – Charles Spurgeon I ONCE knew a good woman who was the subject of many doubts, and when I got to the bottom of her doubt, it was this: she knew she loved Christ, but she was afraid he did not love her. “Oh!” I said, “that is a […]
Love of Jesus increased by Service for us – Charles Spurgeon
Love of Jesus increased by Service for us – Charles Spurgeon IT is a strange thing in human nature, that if anybody does you a kindness, you may forget him, and be ungrateful; but if you bestow a kindness on a person, you will love him and remember him. It is not the receiver generally […]
Love of God, the Fountain of Blessing – Charles Spurgeon
Love of God, the Fountain of Blessing – Charles Spurgeon IF it would be marvelous to see one river leap up from the earth full grown, what would it be to gaze upon a vast spring from which all the rivers of the earth should at once come bubbling up, a thousand of them born […]
Love of Christ to his People – Charles Spurgeon
Love of Christ to his People – Charles Spurgeon THERE is no music in the rarest sounds compared with these three syllables, which drop from the Redeemer’s lips like sweet-smelling myrrh. “Beloved!” If he had addressed but that one word to any one of us, it might create a Heaven within our soul, which neither […]
Love of Christ in our Afflictions – Charles Spurgeon
Love of Christ in our Afflictions – Charles Spurgeon THE penal result of sin Christ has exhausted; he endured it all, and now the cross that comes to you is garlanded with love, all over it is inscribed with lines of affection. I know that this is hard to be believed, especially while you are […]
Love of Christ, All-embracing – Charles Spurgeon
Love of Christ, All-embracing – Charles Spurgeon THE saints were from the beginning joined to Christ by bands of everlasting love. Before he took on him their nature, or brought them into a conscious enjoyment of himself, his heart was set upon their persons, and his soul delighted in them. Long before the worlds were […]
Love, Food of – Charles Spurgeon
Love, Food of – Charles Spurgeon THE food of love is a sense of sin, and a grateful sense of forgiveness. If you and I felt more deeply the guilt of our past lives, we should love Jesus Christ better. If we had but a clearer sense that our sins deserve the deepest Hell, that […]
Love, Christ Real to – Charles Spurgeon
Love, Christ Real to – Charles Spurgeon LOVE makes the Savior real to the heart. When I preach sometimes, and my love is cold, and my zeal is flagging, I talk about the Master as though he were but an historical personage, someone that had lived and gone; but when my heart is warm towards […]
Love and Duty – Charles Spurgeon
Love and Duty – Charles Spurgeon MEN will do far more from love than we might dare to ask as a matter of duty. Napoleon’s soldiers frequently achieved exploits under the influence of fervid attachment for him, which no law could have required them to attempt. Had there been cold-blooded orders issued by some domineering […]
Lost Souls, Cry of – Charles Spurgeon
Lost Souls, Cry of – Charles Spurgeon THERE was a story in the papers some time ago of a man being found dead in a ditch, who had been lying there dead for six weeks. It was said that somebody had heard a cry of “Lost, lost,” but it was dark, and he did not […]
Lost, Christ the Savior of the – Charles Spurgeon
Lost, Christ the Savior of the – Charles Spurgeon SOME whom Christ saves are lost socially. They are not mentioned in the family now. It brings such a pang to the mother’s heart, such a flush to the father’s cheek. They could not enter now into any respectable society; they are marked men and marked […]
Lord’s Supper, a Place for Song – Charles Spurgeon
Lord’s Supper, a Place for Song – Charles Spurgeon WHEN the shepherds sat down among the sheep they tuned their pipes, and warbled forth soft and sweet airs in harmony with rustic quietude. All around was calm and still; the sun was brightly shining, and the birds were making melody among the leafy branches. Shall […]
Lord’s Supper, a Means of Conversion – Charles Spurgeon
Lord’s Supper, a Means of Conversion – Charles Spurgeon HOW often within these walls has God blessed the breaking of bread to the conversion of souls! Let me refresh the memories of such. Some of you have been looking on from these galleries; you dared not come down with the people of God, but you […]
Lord’s Supper, a Bond of Union – Charles Spurgeon
Lord’s Supper, a Bond of Union – Charles Spurgeon THERE is something painful, but pleasing, when the father dies, for the children to come together at the funeral, and to go together to his grave. Many family heart-burnings have been healed when they have joined in a memorial. The poor man’s grave, especially, has much […]
Love Displayed
Love Displayed The story is told of a woman who left her husband. The husband called the police and filed a “missing persons report.” A few weeks later the police found her a few counties over. They asked him if he wanted them to take him to her. By now the husband had realized how […]
Love Does Not Seek a Reward
Love Does Not Seek a Reward On May 2, 1962, Gladys Kidd placed a dramatic advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner, “I don’t want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. I will therefore offer my services for 10 years as a cook, maid, or housekeeper to any leading […]
Longsuffering of God, Marvel of – Charles Spurgeon
Longsuffering of God, Marvel of – Charles Spurgeon AH! my brethren, can you think for a minute what you and I would do if some cruel wretches should take our children and torture them, and burn them alive; how would our wrath be up, and how would we strike in their defense! But remember that […]
Littles, The—Showing forth God – Charles Spurgeon
Littles, The—Showing forth God – Charles Spurgeon SEEING the jonquil, the hyacinth, the anemone, and many others of our garden flowers growing wild in the valleys on the Italian side of the Alps, and hearing the ceaseless chirping of the innumerable insects which fill the air with their song, and looking up to the snowy […]
Little Cares, Influence of – Charles Spurgeon
Little Cares, Influence of – Charles Spurgeon WHAT fools we are, brethren, and yet if someone else were to call us fools we should not like it, though I do not doubt but that we are very well named, whoever may give us the title, for the whole of Heaven cannot make us rejoice if […]
Likeness to Christ in Death and Glory – Charles Spurgeon
Likeness to Christ in Death and Glory – Charles Spurgeon YOU see that creeping worm, how contemptible is its appearance! You wish to sweep it away; that is the beginning of the thing. You see that insect with gorgeous wings playing in the sunbeams, sipping at the flower bells, and full of happiness and life; […]
Likeness to Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Likeness to Christ – Charles Spurgeon BEHOLD from Heaven’s mint golden pieces of inestimable value are sent forth, and each one bears the image and superscription of the Son of God. The face of Jesus is more lovely to God than all the worlds, his eyes are brighter than the stars, his voice is sweeter […]
Light, Walking in – Charles Spurgeon
Light, Walking in – Charles Spurgeon I CANNOT dwell in the sun, it is too bright a place for my residence, unless I shall be transformed, like Uriel, Milton’s angel, who could dwell in the midst of the blaze of its excessive glory, but I can walk in the light of the sun though I […]
Light, Sowing of – Charles Spurgeon
Light, Sowing of – Charles Spurgeon THE sun, like a sower, scatters broadcast his beams of light upon the once dark earth. Look up at night upon the sky bespangled with stars, and it seems as though God scattered them like gold-dust upon the floor of Heaven in picturesque irregularity, thereby sowing light. Or if […]
Light from Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Light from Christ – Charles Spurgeon LIGHT! oh, how precious would it be to you, if you were immured in one of those prisons which we have seen at Venice, below the water’s level, deep down, with winding passages, where even a refracted ray of light could never reach the prisoner, where he sat alone […]
Light, Every Christian a – Charles Spurgeon
Light, Every Christian a – Charles Spurgeon IN Eastern dwellings it would be necessary, if you lost a piece of money and wanted to find it, to light a candle at any time; for in our Savior’s day glass was not used, and the windows of houses were only little slits in the side of […]
Light, Air, and Water—Emblems of Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Light, Air, and Water—Emblems of Christ – Charles Spurgeon YOU will have observed that all the good things which God has made are diffusive. There is light; you cannot confine light within narrow limits. Suppose we were to grow so bigoted and conceited as to conceive that we had all the light in the world […]
Lifelessness of the Church – Charles Spurgeon
Lifelessness of the Church – Charles Spurgeon OUR churches seem to be half alive. It is a dreadful thing to read of the punishment practiced by ancient tyrants when they tied a living man to a corpse, and he had to go about with this corpse strapped to him, and rotting under his nostrils, and […]
Life, Spiritual—The Guarantee of Growth – Charles Spurgeon
Life, Spiritual—The Guarantee of Growth – Charles Spurgeon THE young beginner in grace should feel that it will not be impossible for him to grow to the stature of a perfect man in Christ Jesus, because grace has quickened him and made him a babe. That is the greatest thing, to make me alive at […]
Life, Spiritual—Prayer a Sign of – Charles Spurgeon
Life, Spiritual—Prayer a Sign of – Charles Spurgeon WHILE a man can pray he is never far from light; he is at the window, though, perhaps, as yet the curtains are not drawn aside. The man who can pray has the clue in his hand by which to escape from the labyrinth of affliction. Like […]
Life, Trusting in Christ a Sign of – Charles Spurgeon
Life, Trusting in Christ a Sign of – Charles Spurgeon SUPPOSE there is a person here who does not exactly know his age, and he wants to find the register of his birth, and he has tried and cannot find it. Now, what is the inference that he draws from his not being able to […]
Life the only time to seek Salvation – Charles Spurgeon
Life the only time to seek Salvation – Charles Spurgeon OH! bethink you, each one of you, there is but one hope, and that one hope lost, it is gone forever. Defeated in one battle, a commander attempts another, and hopes that he may yet win the campaign. Your life is your one fight, and […]
Life, Length of—A Trial – Charles Spurgeon
Life, Length of—A Trial – Charles Spurgeon I LOOK with admiration upon brethren who have remained faithful to God for sixty or seventy years. It seems to me that the length of the Christian’s life is, in itself, oftentimes a very severe trial. A man might stand at the stake and burn for a few […]
Life, Frailty of – Charles Spurgeon
Life, Frailty of – Charles Spurgeon YOU stand over the mouth of Hell upon a single plank, and that plank is rotten. You hang over the jaws of perdition by a solitary rope, and the strands of that rope are snapping one by one. Frailer than the spider’s web is your life, and yet that […]
Life, Human and Divine – Charles Spurgeon
Life, Human and Divine – Charles Spurgeon WHAT life was that which Father Adam conferred upon your sons and daughters? Why, only life terrestrial, a bubble life, that melted and disappeared. But Jesus, as he comes again, will find none of his children dead, none of his sons and daughters lost; because he lives, they […]
Life, Changes in – Charles Spurgeon
Life, Changes in – Charles Spurgeon OUR life is like an April day, the sunshine alternates with the shower; or like each day of all the year, the morning and the evening are needful to complete it. Quick on the heels of light treads the darkness, followed with equal haste by light again. The sun’s […]
Life Beginning in Trouble, Ending in Peace – Charles Spurgeon
Life Beginning in Trouble, Ending in Peace – Charles Spurgeon HAVE you not often seen a day which early in the morning was heavy with fog and rain? As it came on we waited patiently and anxiously, for we wished for fine weather; but those incessant drops of rain still fell. We looked to the […]
Life, A Frivolous – Charles Spurgeon
Life, A Frivolous – Charles Spurgeon SOME individuals appear to have a brain-case which was never properly filled. Like butterflies, they flit from flower to flower, but gather no honey. Look at the life of many in the West End, who pass all their existence in dressing and undressing, distributing bits of cardboard, riding in […]
Lethargy, Trouble Arousing from – Charles Spurgeon
Lethargy, Trouble Arousing from – Charles Spurgeon STAYING for awhile in the valley of Aosta, in Northern Italy, we found the air to be heavy, close, and humid with pestilential exhalations. We were oppressed and feverish—one’s life did not seem worth a pin. We could not breath freely, our lungs had a sense of having […]
Leaning on the Beloved – Charles Spurgeon
Leaning on the Beloved – Charles Spurgeon BELIEVE me, no sacred work can long be continued with energy except in this spirit, for flesh flags, and even the spirit languishes except there be the constant leaning upon the Beloved. As for you, men of business, you with your families, and with your shops, and with […]
Laziness, unworthy of the Christian – Charles Spurgeon
Laziness, unworthy of the Christian – Charles Spurgeon LAZINESS never yet had communion with Christ. Those who walk with Christ must walk swiftly. Jesus is no idler or loiterer; he is about his Father’s business, and you must march with quick step if you would keep pace with him. As vinegar to the teeth, and […]
Lucy’s Weapon
Lucy’s Weapon In an old Peanuts cartoon, Lucy demanded that her brother Linus change TV channels and then threatened him with her fist if he didn’t. “What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?” asked Linus. “These five fingers,” said Lucy. “Individually they are nothing, but when I curl them […]
Love in Old Age
Love in Old Age To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, the couple returned to their honey moon hotel. After retiring the wife said, “Darling, do you remember how you stroked my hair?” and so he stroked her hair. She reminded him of the way they cuddled and so they did. With a sigh she said, […]
Look at Both Sides
Look at Both Sides Before you have an argument with your boss you should take a good look at both sides—his side and the outside. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Let Me Have My Saddle
Let Me Have My Saddle For years Frank’s wife begged him to take her hunting. He put her off as long as he could; finally, he gave in. They went to a place where bucks were likely to be found. He placed her where she could get a good shot at any deer that came […]
Life Insurance
Life Insurance A very nervous airline passenger began pacing the terminal when bad weather delayed his flight. During his walk, he came across a life insurance machine. It offered $100,000 in the event of an untimely death aboard his flight. The policy was just three dollars. He looked out the window at the threatening clouds […]
Listening for the Holy Spirit
Listening for the Holy Spirit “Before refrigerators, people used icehouses to preserve their food. Icehouses had thick walls, no windows and a tightly fitted door. In winter, when streams and lakes were frozen, large blocks of ice were cut, hauled to the icehouses and covered with sawdust. Often the ice would last well into the […]
Love Forgives
Love Forgives Corrie Ten Boom and her family resisted the Nazis by hiding Jews in their home. They were ultimately discovered and sent to a concentration camp. Corrie barely survived until the end of the war; her family members died in captivity. Seared by this terrible trial by fire, Corrie’s faith in God also survived, […]
Last year Professor [Robert] George [of Princeton]- George Muwller
Last year Professor [Robert] George [of Princeton]- George Muwller Last year Professor [Robert] George [of Princeton] debated abortion at a convention of the American Political Science Association. His opponent was well-known deconstructionist Stanley Fish. In published articles, Fish had dismissed arguments against abortion as based on “religious conviction” alone, while suggesting that the case for […]
Larry King’s Greatest Fear
Larry King’s Greatest Fear For the twentieth anniversary of Larry King Live, Barbara Walters interviewed the man who became famous interviewing others. She asked him direct and revealing questions. Two of the most telling responses came when she probed about fear and faith. Walters asked King, “What is your greatest fear?” He immediately replied, “death.” This […]
Living in the Past
LIVING IN THE PAST “Men who live in the past remind me of a toy I’m sure all of you have seen. The toy is a small wooden bird called the Floogie Bird. Around the Floogie Bird’s neck is a label reading, ‘I fly backwards, I don’t care where I’m going. I just want to […]
Listening to the Holy Spirit
Listening to the Holy Spirit In the world of technology there is a new development called Hyper Sonic Sound (HSS). The inventor, Elwood “Woody” Norris, has engineered sound waves to travel like a laser beam for about 150 yards. This allows sounds to be heard by a person in a particular place but not by […]
Livingstone’s Diary
Livingstone’s Diary David Livingstone was the pioneer missionary to Africa, who walked over 29,000 miles in his ministry. His wife died early in their ministry and he faced stiff opposition from his Scottish brethren. He wrote the following words in his diary: “Send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only […]
Laying Aside Weights
Laying Aside Weights Hebrews 12:1 admonishes Christians to “Lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us.” Many times those weights are simple distractions that create enormous drag. One preacher illustrated it this way: “It’s perfectly legal to run a race in army boots.” He said it wasn’t wise and would guarantee […]
Leaving the Ground
Leaving the Ground When the pilot of a giant airliner is speeding down the runway, there is a certain point where he cannot decide to remain on the ground. When he crosses that line, he is committed to the air, or the plane crashes disastrously. The pilot cannot change his mind when the plane is […]
“Let the Lower Lights be Burning.” – Dwight Lyman Moody
“Let the Lower Lights be Burning.” – Dwight Lyman Moody A few years ago at the mouth of Cleveland harbor there were two lights, one at each side of the bay, called the upper and lower lights; and to enter the harbor safely by night, vessels must sight both of the lights. These western lakes […]
Loved Ones Are Not Lost When They Go to Heaven
Loved Ones Are Not Lost When They Go to Heaven A little girl whose baby brother had just died asked her mother where Baby had gone. “To be with Jesus,” replied the mother. A few days later, talking to a friend, the mother said, “I am so grieved to have lost my baby.” The little […]
Lion’s Tail
Lion’s Tail A man was bragging that he had cut off the tail of a man-eating lion with his pocket knife. When asked why he had not cut off the lion’s head, the man replied: “Someone had already done that.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Lack of Communication in Marriage
Lack of Communication in Marriage Married couples spend an average of 27.5 minutes per week talking to each other, according to Ray Bridwhistell, speech communication expert. However, they spend 46 hours per week watching TV. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Living in Overtime
Living in Overtime A big-time sports fan was watching a football game with his grandchildren. He had just turned seventy-five and was feeling a little wistful. “You know,” he said to his grandson, Nick, “it’s not easy getting old. I guess I’m in the fourth quarter now.” “Don’t worry, Grandpa,” Nick said cheerily. “Maybe you’ll go into overtime.” […]
Losing Teeth
Losing Teeth A 4-year-old was fascinated by the various appliances that some of the elderly used—canes, walkers, wheelchairs. One day her mother found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. The mother braced herself for the inevitable question that was to come. Instead, her daughter turned and whispered: “The tooth […]
Lady Ann Erskine and Rowland Hill. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Lady Ann Erskine and Rowland Hill. – Dwight Lyman Moody There is a very good story told of Rowland Hill and Lady Ann Erskine. You have seen it, perhaps, in print, but I would like to tell it to you. While he was preaching in a park in London to a large assemblage, she was […]
Little Jimmy. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Little Jimmy. – Dwight Lyman Moody A friend of mine in Chicago took his Sabbath-school out on the cars once. A little boy was allowed to sit on the platform of the car, when by some mischance he fell, and the whole train passed over him. They had to go on a half a mile […]
LESSONS FROM MY MOTHER
LESSONS FROM MY MOTHER My mother taught me to appreciate a job well done.“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.” My mother taught me religion.“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.” My mother taught me about time travel.“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to […]
Letters to God
Letters to God Below are letters that children have written to God. Dear God: “I didn’t think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset You made on Tuesday. That was cool.” “Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t You keep the ones You already have?” “Maybe Cain […]
Love Described by Children
Love Described by Children “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.”—Rebecca, age 8 “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that […]
Love. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Love. – Dwight Lyman Moody In our city a few years ago there was a little boy who went to one of the mission Sunday-schools. His father moved to another part of the city about five miles away, and every Supday that boy came past thirty or forty Sunday-schools to the one he attended. And […]
“Little Moody.” – Dwight Lyman Moody
“Little Moody.” – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember when I was a boy I went several miles from home with an older brother. That seemed to me the longest visit of my life. It seemed that I was then further away from home than I had ever been before, or have ever been since. While […]
LOSING GOD’S MONEY
LOSING GOD’S MONEY ”A father gave his little girl two dollars and said, “You can do anything you want with one of the dollars, but the other dollar belongs to God.” With joy she ran to the candy store. On the way she tripped and one dollar fell into the storm drain. She got up […]
LETTERS TO PASTORS FROM CHILDREN
LETTERS TO PASTORS FROM CHILDREN Below are letters that children have written to their pastor. Dear Pastor: Please say in your sermon Peter Peterson has been a good boy all week. I am Peter Peterson. Sincerely, Pete, age 9 Are there any devils on earth? I think there may be one in my class.—Carla, age […]
LET THE BIBLE GO THROUGH YOU
LET THE BIBLE GO THROUGH YOU Gipsy Smith told of a man who said he had received no inspiration from the Bible although he had “gone through it several times.” “Let it go through you once,” replied Smith, “Then you will tell a different story!” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Love’s Triumph in John Wannamaker’s Sunday School. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Love’s Triumph in John Wannamaker’s Sunday School. – Dwight Lyman Moody Mr. John Wannamaker, superintendent of probably one of the largest Sunday schools in the world, had a theory that he would never put a boy out of his school for bad conduct. He argued if a boy misbehaved himself, it was through bad training […]
LOOKING FOR LOOPHOLES
LOOKING FOR LOOPHOLES Just before the death of actor W. C. Fields, a friend visited Fields’ hospital room and was surprised to find him thumbing through a Bible. When he asked what he was doing with a Bible, Fields replied, “I’m looking for loopholes. There are no loopholes in the Bible; either you accept Christ […]
LUCY’S INNER PEACE
LUCY’S INNER PEACE In one Peanuts cartoon Lucy says to Charlie Brown, “I hate everything. I hate everybody. I hate the whole wide world!” Charlie says, “But I thought you had inner peace.” Lucy replies, “I do have inner peace. But I still have outer obnoxiousness.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Love’s Triumph in John Wannamaker’s Sunday School – Dwight Lyman Moody
Love’s Triumph in John Wannamaker’s Sunday School – Dwight Lyman Moody Mr. John Wannamaker, superintendent of probably one of the largest Sunday schools in the world, had a theory that he would never put a boy out of his school for bad conduct. He argued if a boy misbehaved himself, it was through bad training […]
Love -Dwight Lyman Moody
Love -Dwight Lyman Moody In our city a few years ago there was a little boy who went to one of the mission Sunday-schools. His father moved to another part of the city about five miles away, and every Sunday that boy came past thirty or forty Sunday-schools to the one he attended. And one […]
Liberty – Dwight Lyman Moody
Liberty – Dwight Lyman Moody Old Samba and “Massa.” A friend of mine said he was down in Natchez before the war, and he and a friend of his went out riding one Saturday — they were teaching school through the week — and they drove out back from Natchez. It was a beautiful day, […]
Lady Ann Erskine and Rowland Hill – Dwight Lyman Moody
Lady Ann Erskine and Rowland Hill – Dwight Lyman Moody There is a very good story told of Rowland Hill and Lady Ann Erskine. You have seen it, perhaps, in print, but I would like to tell it to you. While he was preaching in a park in London to a large assemblage, she was […]
Liberty Now and Forever – Dwight Lyman Moody
Liberty Now and Forever – Dwight Lyman Moody When Miss Smiley went down South to teach, she went to a hotel and found everything covered with dirt. The tables were dirty, dishes dirty, beds were dirty. So she called an old colored woman who was in the house, and said, “Now you know that the […]
Let the Lower Lights be Burning – Dwight Lyman Moody
Let the Lower Lights be Burning – Dwight Lyman Moody A few years ago at the mouth of Cleveland harbor there were two lights, one at each side of the bay, called the upper and lower lights; and to enter the harbor safely by night, vessels must sight both of the lights. These western lakes […]
Love in the Face of Discouragement – Dwight Lyman Moody
Love in the Face of Discouragement – Dwight Lyman Moody John 13:1-19Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world to the Father… I know a mother who has an idiot child. For it she gave up all society, almost everything, […]
Looking and Trusting – Dwight Lyman Moody
Looking and Trusting – Dwight Lyman Moody John 3:14-15And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:… I once told my little Willie to jump off a high table, and I would catch him. But he looked down and said, “Papa, I’se afraid.” I […]
Long Life – Dwight Lyman Moody
Long Life – Dwight Lyman Moody 1 Kings 3:14And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk… I get a good deal of comfort out of that promise, “with long life will I satisfy thee.” I don’t think that means a short life […]
Love, not the Rattan, Conquers Little Moody.
Love, not the Rattan, Conquers Little Moody – D. L. MOODY I remember when a boy, I used to go to a certain school in New England, where we had a quick-tempered master, who always kept a rattan. It was, “If you don’t do this, and don’t do that, I’ll punish you.” I remember many […]
Lincoln Enemies…
Lincoln Enemies… Lincoln Enemies… After the American civil war Abraham Lincoln openly forgave of his worst enemies. His peers asked him why? They said he should have destroyed them. Mr Lincoln calmly answered “By making friends I am destroying my enemies”. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Lunch with God
Lunch with God Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za LUNCH WITH GOD! A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of iron brew and started his journey. When he had gone about three […]
Love your enemies
Love your enemies Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za LOVE YOUR ENEMIES On April 28, 1999, just eight days after the Columbine shooting, shock rock singer Marilyn Manson was scheduled to perform a concert in Iowa City, Iowa. And since Manson’s music was prominent in the lives of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, there was […]