Riches – Ruined by – Charles Spurgeon
Riches – Ruined by – Charles Spurgeon Do not be over-anxious about riches. Get as much of true wisdom and goodness as you can; but be satisfied with a very moderate portion of this world’s good, Riches may prove a curse as well as a blessing. I was walking through nn orchard, looking about me, […]
RICHES – Danger of – Charles Spurgeon
RICHES – Danger of – Charles Spurgeon Crossing the Cold ‘Obbie, the mule laden with our luggage sank in the snow, nor could it be recovered until its load was removed j then, but not till then, it scrambled out of the hole it had made, and pursued its journey. It reminded us of mariners […]
Rich—Danger of the hell – Charles Spurgeon
Rich—Danger of the hell – Charles Spurgeon A HOLY woman was wont to say of the rich—” They are hemmed round with no common misery; they go down to hell without thinking of it, because their staircase thither is of gold and porphyry.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Revival—Absence and Presence of – Charles Spurgeon
Revival—Absence and Presence of – Charles Spurgeon The decline of a revival is a great testing season. It discovers the true believers by chilling the false. A frosty night or two suffices to nip all the exotic plants of a garden; but the hardy shrubs, the true natives of the soil, live on even in […]
RESPONSIBILITY – Charles Spurgeon
RESPONSIBILITY – Charles Spurgeon JOHN Brown, of Haddington, said to a young minister, who complained of the smallness of his congregation, ” It is as large a one as you will want to give account for in the day of judgment.” The admonition is appropriate, not to s alone, but to all teachers. Facebook Twitter […]
Resolution — Overcoming Difficulties – Charles Spurgeon
Resolution — Overcoming Difficulties – Charles Spurgeon LOOK at that bare perpendicular mountain side — why, it is worse than perpendicular, it overhangs the lake; yet the bold Tyrolese have carried a road right along the bald face of the rock, by blasting out a gallery, or, as it looks from below, by chiseling out […]
Resignation – Want of – Charles Spurgeon
Resignation – Want of – Charles Spurgeon A lady who had lost a beloved child, was so oppressed with grief, that she even secluded herself from the society Ol her own family, and kept herself locked in her chamber, but was at length prevailed on by her husband to come downstairs and take a walk […]
Resignation – Sustained by Faith – Charles Spurgeon
Resignation – Sustained by Faith – Charles Spurgeon THE habit of resignation is the root of peace. A godly child had a ring given him by his mother, and he greatly prized it, but on a sudden he unhappily lost his ring, and he cried bitterly. Recollecting himself, he stepped aside and prayed; after which […]
Reproof – to be Given in love – Charles Spurgeon
Reproof – to be Given in love – Charles Spurgeon Preaching on John 13:14 — the duty of disciples to wash one another’s feet— Mr. Finlayson, of Helmsdale, observed, ” One way in which disciples wash one another’s feet is by reproving one another. But the reproof must not be couched in angry words, so […]
Repentance—Thoroughly—Searches Out Sin – Charles Spurgeon
Repentance—Thoroughly—Searches Out Sin – Charles Spurgeon When a wound in a soldier’s foot refuses to heal, the surgeon examines it very minutely, and manipulates every part. Each bone is there, and in its place; there is no apparent cause far the inflammation, but yet the wound re- fuses to heal. The surgeon probes and probes […]
Repentance -Must be remember – Charles Spurgeon
Repentance -Must be remember – Charles Spurgeon The gondoliers at Venice, when we were sojourning in that queen of the Adriatic, frequently quarreled with each other, and used such high words and ferocious gestures that we were afraid murder would come of it ; yet they never came to blows, it was only their rough […]
Remembrance – How to be had in – Charles Spurgeon
Remembrance – How to be had in – Charles Spurgeon Sir Bernard Burke thus touchingly writes in his Vicissitudes of Families: — ” In 1850 pedigree research caused me to pay a visit to the village of Finders, about five miles south-west of Derby. I sought for the ancient hall. Not a stone remained to […]
Religious life not mere Imitation – Charles Spurgeon
Religious life not mere Imitation – Charles Spurgeon “At one of the late grand reviews in Eastern Prussia, says a German paper, a brigade of artillery was ordered to pass at full gallop over a piece of uneven ground, intersected by a ditch full of water. One of the guns, from the horses not making […]
Religion -Taken upon Trait – Charles Spurgeon
Religion -Taken upon Trait – Charles Spurgeon It is a preposterous thing that men can venture their souls where they will not venture their money; for they will take their religion upon trust but would not trust a synod about the goodness of half- a- crown. — William Penn. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
RELIGION- Best be Personal – Charles Spurgeon
RELIGION- Best be Personal – Charles Spurgeon ” A LITTLE girl, whom we will call Ellen, was some time ago helping to nurse a sick gentleman, whom she loved very dearly. One day he said to her, ‘ Ellen, it is time for me to take my medicine, I think. Will you pour it out […]
Regeneration – Need of – Charles Spurgeon
Regeneration – Need of – Charles Spurgeon A RAW countryman having brought his gun to the gun- smith for repairs, the latter is reported to have examined it, and finding it to be almost too far gone for repairing, said, ” Your gun is in a very worn-out, ruinous, good-for-nothing condition, what sort of repairing […]
Right View Of – Charles H Spurgeon
Right View Of – Charles H Spurgeon Our crosses are not made of iron, though painted some- times with iron colours; they are formed of nothing heavier than wood. Yet they are not made of pasteboard, and will never be light in themselves, though our Lord can lighten them by his presence. The Papists foolishly […]
Revealing Christian – Charles H Spurgeon
Revealing Christian – Charles H Spurgeon When the green leaves bedeck the trees and all is fair, one cannot readily find the birds’ nests, but when the winter lays bare the trees, anyone, with half-an-eye, may see them. Thus amid the press of business and prosperity the Christian may scarcely be discerned, his hidden life […]
Receiving Rebuke Rightly
Receiving Rebuke Rightly When Orel Hershiser was in his first season as a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he had great talent but had not been able to translate that into success on the field. Early in the 1984 season he was struggling with his control. Finally Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda called the young […]
Refining Silver
Refining Silver In the 1800s, a group of women met to study the Bible in Dublin. They were puzzled by the words of Malachi 3:3, “And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” One of the ladies promised to call on a silversmith and report to them what he said on the subject. She […]
Running Away from a Warrant
Running Away from a Warrant A Changed Attitude It was Napoleon Bonaparte who, early in his life, said, “God is on the side of the biggest artillery.” Years later, when he was exiled on an island, he reversed his opinion, and conceded, “Man proposes, but God disposes.” Napoleon learned the attitude of “If it is […]
Receiving Christ’s Riches
Receiving Christ’s Riches D. L. Moody told the story of a shop girl in Chicago; one day she could not have bought a dollar’s worth of anything; the next day she could buy a thousand dollars worth of anything she wanted. What made the difference? She married a rich husband. She had accepted him and, […]
Rescued from a Shark
Rescued from a Shark Normally the flight from Nassau to Miami took Walter Wyatt, Jr., only sixty-five minutes. But on December 5, 1986, he attempted it after thieves had looted the navigational equipment in his Beechcraft. With only a compass and a hand-held radio, Walter flew into skies blackened by storm clouds. When his compass […]
Routine, Usefulness of – Charles Spurgeon
Routine, Usefulness of – Charles Spurgeon WE are told that in unhappy Paris, when first the mails were stopped, the drivers of the mail-carts took their seats upon their boxes and sat there, though no horse was forthcoming. Red tape commands as much reverence as the magic cord of the Brahmins. Formal routine satisfies many. […]
Romish Priestcraft Dishonoring to God – Charles Spurgeon
Romish Priestcraft Dishonoring to God – Charles Spurgeon ALAS! alas! It makes a Christian’s blood boil to see glory given in a professed place of worship, ay, and in a professed Protestant church, too, to a pack of scamps who call themselves “priests”! I would not call them by such a name if they were […]
Ritualism, Vanity of – Charles Spurgeon
Ritualism, Vanity of – Charles Spurgeon I AM sometimes up on the Alps amidst the glories of nature, with the glacier and snow-clad peak; I am in the open, and I breathe the fresh air that comes from the ancient hills, but you tell me that there I am on “unholy ground”! Stands there, hard […]
Ritualism, Sinfulness of – Charles Spurgeon
Ritualism, Sinfulness of – Charles Spurgeon STEP in where the Ritualist has dressed himself in all his gaudy apparel, flaunting like a peacock before God himself, and you may well say to him, “If you knew the gift of God,” you would lay aside these fooleries and come before God sooner in sackcloth than in […]
Ripening for Heaven – Charles Spurgeon
Ripeness for Heaven, Sign of – Charles Spurgeon
Ripeness for Heaven, Sign of – Charles Spurgeon RIPE fruit soon parts from the bough. You shake the tree and the ripest apples fall. If you wish to eat fresh fruit you put out your hand to pluck it, and if it comes off with great difficulty you feel you had better leave it alone […]
Righteous, Blessedness of the – Charles Spurgeon
Righteous, Blessedness of the – Charles Spurgeon “SAY you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him,” from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same; from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, from the first gatherings of evening shadows until the day-star shines. […]
Riches in the Heart, Evil of – Charles Spurgeon
Riches in the Heart, Evil of – Charles Spurgeon MANY a man sinks in wealth like a horse in a bog; his possessions suck him under. While your earthly goods are kept under foot they will do you no hurt, but when they rise as high as your heart, they have begun to bury you […]
Rewards of Grace – Charles Spurgeon
Rewards of Grace – Charles Spurgeon THE Duke of Burgundy was waited upon by a poor man, a very loyal subject, who brought him a very large root which he had grown. He was a very poor man indeed, and every root he grew in his garden was of consequence to him; but merely as […]
Revivals, Spurious and True – Charles Spurgeon
Revivals, Spurious and True – Charles Spurgeon MY dear friends, we have, in our time, seen in certain churches great blazings of enthusiasm, as if Vesuvius and Etna had both taken to work; these outbursts of flame have been misnamed revivals, but might just as well have been called agitations. I have known, in my […]
Revival, Hindrance to – Charles Spurgeon
Revival, Hindrance to – Charles Spurgeon A CITY of three millions, not wholly given to idolatry, but still very much given to sin, and we ourselves so weak in the midst of it! if we could but realize this position, and then take hold upon the arm omnipotent, and by an overcoming faith, such as […]
Revelations of Christ, Variety of – Charles Spurgeon
Revelations of Christ, Variety of – Charles Spurgeon AS to the manner in which the Lord may be pleased to reveal himself to any one of us, I am sure that if we know that salvation is of grace, we shall never quarrel about that any more. To some of us, the Lord revealed himself […]
Restraints, Usefulness of – Charles Spurgeon
Restraints, Usefulness of – Charles Spurgeon AS for ourselves, let us never wish to be without our daily cross. The kite broke away from its string, and instead of mounting to the stars it descended into the mire. The river grew weary of its restraining banks, and longed to burst them, that it might rush […]
Restraining Grace – Charles Spurgeon
Restraining Grace – Charles Spurgeon AH! my fine fellow, if you could have had your own way, you would have been at the top of the mountain by now! So you think, but no, you would have been over the precipice long before this if God had let you climb at all, and so he […]
Restlessness, Cure for – Charles Spurgeon
Restlessness, Cure for – Charles Spurgeon IT has been said by a great physician, that when persons find much difficulty in sleeping, they have sometimes been able to win the embrace of “tired nature’s sweet restorer,” by fixing their minds upon a single sublime subject, a grand absorbing topic, a master-theme for thought. As soon […]
Rest in the Bosom of God – Charles Spurgeon
Rest in the Bosom of God – Charles Spurgeon HAVE you never seen a little child that has lost its way crying in the streets for “Mother”? Now, you shall give that child what you will, but it will not stay its crying for “Mother.” It has lost her, and cannot be content. Take the […]
Rest in Christ, our Portion – Charles Spurgeon
Rest in Christ, our Portion – Charles Spurgeon IT is only at the gospel supper that our proper posture is that of recumbency, reclining, or sitting down, because our warfare is accomplished. They that have believed have entered into rest. Jesus has given us rest, we are not traversing the wilderness, we are come unto […]
Rest Necessary for Workers – Charles Spurgeon
Rest Necessary for Workers – Charles Spurgeon REST time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. Look at the mower on the summer’s day, with so much to cut down before the sun sets. He pauses in his labor—is he a sluggard? He looks for his stone, and begins to draw […]
Resurrection of Christ, a Pledge of future Victory – Charles Spurgeon
Resurrection of Christ, a Pledge of future Victory – Charles Spurgeon OUR Lord came into this world to destroy all the works of the devil. Behold before you the works of the devil pictured as a grim and horrible castle, massive and terrible, overgrown with the moss of ages, colossal, stupendous, cemented with blood of […]
Resurrection of Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Resurrection of Christ – Charles Spurgeon THE sun comes forth, at the appointed hour, from the gates of day, and begins to gladden the earth; even so on the third day, early in the morning, Jesus, our Lord, arose from his sleep, and there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the Lord descended […]
Resurrection, Key-stone of the Christian Arch – Charles Spurgeon
Resurrection, Key-stone of the Christian Arch – Charles Spurgeon “CAN these dry bones live?” is still the unbeliever’s sneer. The doctrine of the resurrection is a lamp kindled by the hand which once was pierced. It is indeed in some respects the key-stone of the Christian arch. It is linked in our holy faith with […]
Resurrection Drawing Near – Charles Spurgeon
Resurrection Drawing Near – Charles Spurgeon AS the pendulum of the clock continues unceasingly to beat like the heart of time, as morning dawn gives place to evening shade, and the seasons follow in constant cycle, we are drifted along the river of time nearer to the ocean of eternity. Borne as on the wings […]
Reputations, Obscured—To Shine Forth – Charles Spurgeon
Reputations, Obscured—To Shine Forth – Charles Spurgeon A CHRISTIAN minister must expect to lose his repute among men. He must be willing to suffer every reproach for Christ’s sake. But, then, he may rest assured that he will never lose his real honor if it be risked for the truth’s sake, and placed in the […]
Repentance Preceding Joy – Charles Spurgeon
Repentance Preceding Joy – Charles Spurgeon AS certain fabrics need to be damped before they will take the glowing colors with which they are to be adorned, so our spirits need the bedewing of repentance before they can receive the radiant coloring of delight. The glad news of the gospel can only be printed on […]
Repentance, God’s Work – Charles Spurgeon
Repentance, God’s Work – Charles Spurgeon YOU feel that you cannot repent, but cannot Jesus make you repent by his Spirit? Do you hesitate about that question? See the world a few months ago hard bound with frost, but how daffodil, and crocus, and snowdrop, have come up above that once frozen soil, how snow […]
Renewal, Divine – Charles Spurgeon
Renewal, Divine – Charles Spurgeon IN the creation of the old world God first gave light, and afterwards he created life—the life that crept, the life that walked, the life that dived, the life that flew in the midst of Heaven. So has he wrought in our hearts; he has given us the life that […]
Religious Juggler, The – Charles Spurgeon
Religious Juggler, The – Charles Spurgeon I HAVE seen, when I was a boy, a juggler in the street throw up half-a-dozen balls, or knives and plates, and continue catching and throwing them, and to me it seemed marvelous; but the religious juggler beats all others hollow. He has to keep up Christianity and worldliness […]
Religion of Christ a Fire – Charles Spurgeon
Religion of Christ a Fire – Charles Spurgeon IF the gospel of Jesus Christ had been a mystic philosophy, which only a few could comprehend, it would not have been a matter of fire; if it had been a mere pompous ceremonial which the people could only look upon and admire, it would have had […]
Religion, True—Not Dependent upon Circumstances – Charles Spurgeon
Religion, True—Not Dependent upon Circumstances – Charles Spurgeon I WONDER how much religion some of us would have if it were all set to cool! There seems to be a great volume of it now while we are living in a warm and genial atmosphere with our friends and comrades in the gospel. Suppose we […]
Religion to be seen Everywhere – Charles Spurgeon
Religion to be seen Everywhere – Charles Spurgeon OUR religion is for the market-place, for the shop, for the streets, and for the field. And as God’s being is not confined to temples made by the hands of men, but is present everywhere, on heath, and city, and moor, and field—in the sunbeams that light […]
Religion, Feeble Manifestations of – Charles Spurgeon
Religion, Feeble Manifestations of – Charles Spurgeon I DO feel, brethren, as if few of us had ever entered into the power of religion; we are living in the weakness of it. We live on the outskirts; we have not pierced into the metropolitan city of intense vital godliness. We are like those poor Eskimos […]
Religion, Eternal Sweetness of – Charles Spurgeon
Religion, Eternal Sweetness of – Charles Spurgeon THE top of the cup of religion may be bitter, but it grows sweeter the deeper down you drink. The cup at Satan’s banquet is sweet upon the brim, where the bubbles glow like rainbows, but, ah, the horrid dregs of it! The cup that Christ gives has […]
Religion Costing Little – Charles Spurgeon
Religion Costing Little – Charles Spurgeon HOW few Christians have ever read this text and understood it, “Sell what you have and give alms.” Their almsgiving has never come to that; they have given but the cheese-parings and candle-ends to Christ; they never knew they had given them, they made no sacrifice to do so. […]
Relationship to God – Charles Spurgeon
Relationship to God – Charles Spurgeon THINGS are precious, often because of their relationship. The most precious thing a mother has is her dear babe. We all love those who are near to us by the ties of nature. Precious, therefore, in the sight of the Lord are his saints, because they are born in […]
Rejection of Christ Fatal – Charles Spurgeon
Rejection of Christ Fatal – Charles Spurgeon YOU cannot reject the Savior and be a little damaged thereby; there is no alternative but that you utterly perish. You shall eat bread, it shall nourish you, it shall provide for you the material of flesh and sinew, nerve and bone. Refuse to eat it, and you […]
Rejection of Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Rejection of Christ – Charles Spurgeon WITHIN a few more years, you and I will have mixed our bones with mother earth, and then after that shall come a general resurrection, and we shall live and stand in the latter days upon the earth, and Christ will come in the clouds of Heaven, and you […]
Regeneration, False and True – Charles Spurgeon
Regeneration, False and True – Charles Spurgeon THE sprinkling of an infant makes no change in that child whatever; it is, as I believe, a vain ceremony, not commanded of God, nor warranted in Scripture; and as the Church of England practices it, it is altogether pernicious and superstitious, and if there be any effect […]
Reformation, Personal—Required – Charles Spurgeon
Reformation, Personal—Required – Charles Spurgeon IT highly gratifies some people when they can find a fault in some highly-respected brother; they just pull him to pieces with about the same zest that might be displayed by a jackdaw or an ape. That is their forte, the strength of their genius—detraction—pulling to pieces what they could […]
Redemption, Greatness of – Charles Spurgeon
Redemption, Greatness of – Charles Spurgeon CHRIST has not died merely to win this little island, and a few other nations; he has died to redeem this whole round world as a jewel which he will wear in his crown, and he shall have it yet; I say the whole round world yet shall shine […]
Recognition in Heaven – Charles Spurgeon
Recognition in Heaven – Charles Spurgeon WHEN we read at funerals that famous chapter in the epistle to the Corinthians, we find in it no comfort concerning the immortal spirit, for it is not required, but we find much consolation with regard to that which is “sown in dishonor,” but shall be “raised in glory.” […]
Rebellion against God, Futility of – Charles Spurgeon
Rebellion against God, Futility of – Charles Spurgeon IF we were profane enough to imagine the Lord to be vulnerable, yet where is the bow and where the arrow that could reach him on his throne? What javelin shall pierce Jehovah’s buckler? Let all the nations of the earth rise and rage against God, how […]
Releasing a King Cobra
Releasing a King Cobra Gary Richmond gained an interesting perspective on snakes while working with a snake handler in a zoo. Richmond and four others milked the venom of a King Cobra. This was an extremely dangerous task as the King Cobra has enough venom to kill one thousand adults. An entire roll of paper […]
Repentance of Bad Results
Repentance of Bad Results A volunteer fire department in Arkansas drew criticism for letting a house burn down. It seems the owner hadn’t paid a twenty-dollar annual fee for fire fighting service. Because of the fire fighters’ inaction, two adjacent furniture shops also were destroyed. A resident behind the shops did pay the fee—while the […]
Repeating Folly
Repeating Folly A number of years ago, retired NASA engineer Edgar C. Whisenant wrote a book called 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988. The book, which he self-published, placed the expected date of the Rapture between September 11 and September 13 of 1988, and became a massive bestseller. By the time the end […]
Religions Addressed in John 3:16
Religions Addressed in John 3:16 “John 3:16 addresses a number of ‘isms.’ The phrase ‘For God’ responds to atheism, which claims there is no God. The phrase ‘so loved’ responds to fatalism, which asserts God is an impersonal force. The phrase ‘the world’ responds to nationalism, which says God loves only one group of people. […]
Rebuilding the Altar
Rebuilding the Altar The Temple Institute, which has already built many of the vessels for the Temple, such as the ark and the menorah, has now embarked on a project to build the altar. “Unfortunately, we cannot currently build the altar in its proper place, on the Temple Mount,” Temple Institute director Yehudah Glick said. […]
Religious Art Is Banned from School
Religious Art Is Banned from School School officials in Bloomingdale, Michigan lost a 2 1/2-year fight in May, 1995 to keep a painting of Jesus in a high school hall way, where it had hung for 30 years. The U.S. Supreme Court let a lower court ruling stand that said the art has, “A proselytizing, […]
Responding to the Wind
Responding to the Wind “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Rock Music Destroys Your Brain
Rock Music Destroys Your Brain David Merrell conducted an experiment in which he timed seventy-two mice running through a maze. He divided the mice into three groups and let each mouse run through the maze (establishing an average time of ten minutes). He then left one group alone, played classical music to one group, and […]
Remember Your Blessings
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Revival Joy
Revival Joy “A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or daydawn without light.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Removing Bad Influences
Removing Bad Influences When silver is mined from the ground it is commonly mixed with a number of other elements. In order to get pure silver that can be used for commercial or industrial purposes, it must be refined. Silver has an extraordinarily high melting point—it must be heated to nearly 2,200 degrees in order […]
Religion and Politics
Religion and Politics “I don’t make decisions in public life based on religious belief.”—US Senator John Kerry, then front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, who claims to hold strong Roman Catholic beliefs but supports legal abortion and civil unions for homosexual couples. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Reading the Bible
Reading the Bible A door-to-door salesman from a publishing house asked a lady if she owned a copy of the Bible. “I certainly do!” she replied with some pride. To his next question, did she read it regularly, she responded, “Oh, yes!” and sent her little daughter to get the Bible from the table drawer. […]
Rejected Proposal
Rejected Proposal First man: “I proposed to a girl and would have married her if it hadn’t been for something she said.” Second man: “What was that?” First man: “No.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
8 Reasons Preachers Are Bald
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Renamed Hymns
Renamed Hymns Sometimes singing hymns can be convicting. Here are some you can sing without a tinge of guilt: I Surrender Some There is Scattered Cloudiness in My Soul Today There Shall Be Sprinkles of Blessings Onward, Christian Spectators Where He Leads Me, I Will Consider Following Oh, How I Like Jesus Just as I […]
Reading and Smoking
Reading and Smoking The story is told of a man who smoked cigarettes. Through the reading of numerous articles he became alarmed about the strong relationship between smoking and lung cancer. He finally confided in a friend: “I’ve been reading so many articles about smoking and lung cancer that I’ve decided to quit reading.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest […]
Royal Treatment
Royal Treatment Like a lot of married men, I got the “You just don’t appreciate me” speech. I promised to treat her royally for the remainder of the day. I took her to lunch at Burger King and Dairy Queen for dessert. She’s never mentioned it since. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Running Out of Gas
Running Out of Gas One New Year’s Day, in the Tournament of Roses parade, a beautiful float suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of gas. The amusing thing was this float represented the Standard Oil Company. With its vast oil […]
Rough Landing
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Receiving Honor
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Rely on the Holy Spirit
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Releasing Hurt
Releasing Hurt A little boy was sitting on a park bench in obvious pain. A man walking by asked him what was wrong. The young boy said, “I’m sitting on a bumble bee.” The man urgently asked, “Then why don’t you get up?” The boy replied, “Because I figure I’m hurting him more than he […]
Reshaping The Church Researcher George Barna has identified-George Mueller
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Revolution, George Barna’s newest book, describes what he believes-George Mueller
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Results Speak for Themselves
Results Speak for Themselves Colonel George Washington Goethals, the man responsible for the completion of the Panama Canal, had big problems with the climate and the geography. But his biggest challenge was the growing criticism back home from those who predicted he’d never finish the project. Finally, a colleague asked him, “Aren’t you going to […]
Resurrected Relative
Resurrected Relative A young man came to his boss and asked for the day off to attend his grandmother’s funeral. His boss said, “Sure.” The next day the young man was talking to his boss. The boss said, “Do you believe in resurrection from the dead?” Young man, “Yes.” “Interesting, because after you left work yesterday, your […]
Removing Excuses
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Resurrection Ignorance
Resurrection Ignorance The resurrection of Jesus is central to the celebration of Easter, but less than half of adult Americans link the two. The Barna Group found that only 42% of adults tied Easter to the Resurrection. Adults between the ages of 18 and 25 did the worst. David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, […]
Robbed His Own Store
Robbed His Own Store Thomas Martin is the former manager of a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant in Oroville, California. He reported a robbery in which the crook took $307 as the store was closing. When questioned about the suspect, Martin provided police sketch artist Jack Lee with a detailed description of the assailant. After Lee completed his […]
Researcher George Barna Notes Research Outcomes -Geore Mueller
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Researcher George Barna In 2006 Asked Pastors -George Mueller
Researcher George Barna In 2006 Asked Pastors -George Mueller Researcher George Barna in 2006 asked pastors what they thought was the number 1 priority in the lives of their congregations. Pastors responded that 70% of their peoples #1 priority was their walk w/God. Keep in mind that Barna is asking pastors about people who regularly […]
Robert Lewis Was George Washington’s Private-George Mueller
Robert Lewis Was George Washington’s Private-George Mueller ROBERT LEWIS WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON’S PRIVATE SECRETARY. DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE PRESIDENCY, HE SAID THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY WITNESSED WASHINGTON’S PRIVATE DEVOTIONS, BOTH MORNING AND EVENING. HE SAW HIM IN A KNEELING POSTURE, WITH AN OPEN BIBLE BEFORE HIM; AND HE SAID THAT HE BELIEVED SUCH WAS… […]
Removing the Difficulties. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Removing the Difficulties. – Dwight Lyman Moody I was speaking to a young lady in the inquiry-room some time ago, and she was in great distress of mind. She seemed really anxious to be saved, and I could not find out what was the trouble between God and her. I saw ,there was something that […]
Revival Begins In The Prayer Closet-George Mueller
Revival Begins In The Prayer Closet-George Mueller E.M. Bounds, who was born in 1835, began his three-hour prayer routine at 4am. To him, prayer was not a prelude; it was a priority. Edward Payson, who ministered during the Second Great Awakening, was said to have worn grooves into his hardwood floors as a result of […]
Responding to Critics
Responding to Critics Colonel George Washington Goethals was responsible for the completion of the Panama Canal. The climate and geography of the region were two large obstacles to completing the canal. But his biggest challenge was the growing criticism back home by those who said he would never finish the project. At one point a […]
Respect for a Foe
Respect for a Foe During the Civil War someone reported to Abraham Lincoln that Edwin Stanton, one of the President’s cabinet members, had referred to him as a fool. Mr. Lincoln replied, “Well, I must check into that, for I have found that he is usually correct in his judgments.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
R. A. Torrey on Creation
R. A. Torrey on Creation “Perhaps the most remarkable movement in philosophic thought that has occurred in any age was the rise and general acceptance by scientific circles of the evolutionary theory as propounded by Darwin, Huxley and Spencer. It was remarkable that men of science, whose peculiar boast it is that they deal only […]
Reuben Johnson Pardoned. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Reuben Johnson Pardoned. – Dwight Lyman Moody I want to tell you a scene that occurred some time ago. Our Commissioner went to the Governor of the State and asked him if he wouldn’t pardon out five men at the end of six months who stood highest on the list for good behavior. The Governor […]
12 Reasons I Don’t Go to Sporting Events Anymore
12 Reasons I Don’t Go to Sporting Events Anymore 1. Every time I went, they asked me for money.2. The people sitting in my row didn’t seem very friendly.3. The seats were very hard.4. The coach never came to visit me.5. The referees made a decision I didn’t agree with.6. I was sitting with hypocrites—they […]
8 Responses to Weird Gifts
8 Responses to Weird Gifts 8. Well, well, well, now, there’s a gift! 7. No, really, I didn’t know that there was a Chia pet tie! Oh, wow! It’s a clip-on too! 6. You know, I always wanted one of these! Jog my memory—what’s it called again? 5. You know what?—I’m going to find a […]
Resuscitating a Frozen Child
Resuscitating a Frozen Child On February 24, 2001, a one-year old Canadian girl named Erika wandered out of her house and spent the entire night in the Edmonton winter. When her mother, Leyla Nordby, found her, Erika appeared to be totally frozen. Her legs were stiff, her body frozen, and all signs of life appeared […]
RISE AND SHINE SERVICE
RISE AND SHINE SERVICE Six-year-old Keirsten was talking with her grandmother about their church’s Easter sunrise service when she announced, “Nana, I’m not going to that rise-and-shine thing. I have to get up too early!” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
RESOLUTIONS OF A COLLEGE PRESIDENT
RESOLUTIONS OF A COLLEGE PRESIDENT At age nineteen, these resolutions were adopted by Dr. James Clement Furman who became the first president of Furman University: Resolved, never to speak ill of an individual but to call to mind my own sins and imperfections and be silent. Resolved, when my heart feels cold and languid, to […]
REVISED EDITION – Dwight Lyman Moody
REVISED EDITION – Dwight Lyman Moody REVISED EDITION. We retain in this, all that was in former editions and give forty pages additional of new anecdotes, properly classified, taken from the revival work in Boston and elsewhere. We also give engravings of Messrs. Moody, Sankey, Whittle, and the late lamented P. P. Buss, the four evangelists, who have so […]
TEN REASONS WHY I DRINK
TEN REASONS WHY I DRINK 1. I enjoy vomiting.2. My wife likes my breath and bleary eyes.3. My children respect me more.4. I hope to win the safe-driving award.5. I plan to encourage juvenile delinquency.6. I want to provide more good citizens such as bartenders and pub operators.7. I can think so clearly.8. I collect […]
REMEMBER WHO YOU WORK FOR
REMEMBER WHO YOU WORK FOR John Kenneth Galbraith was a noted economist in the early 1900s who was called upon by many dignitaries to help sort the economic markets. He wrote the following story in his autobiography about his housekeeper: “It had been a wearying day, and I asked Emily to hold all telephone calls […]
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE GREATEST WEAPON
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE GREATEST WEAPON Napoleon made a mistake when he said that God is on the side of the strongest battalion. This statement has been proven wrong many times in the Bible and throughout history. Abraham took 318 men and defeated 4 kings and their armies. Gideon with his 300 dedicated men defeated an […]
Reuben Johnson Pardoned – Dwight Lyman Moody
Reuben Johnson Pardoned – Dwight Lyman Moody I want to tell you a scene that occurred some time ago. Our Commissioner went to the Governor of the State and asked him if he wouldn’t pardon out five men at the end of six months who stood highest on the list for good behavior. The Governor […]
Reaping the Whirlwind – Dwight Lyman Moody
Reaping the Whirlwind – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember in the north of England a prominent citizen told a sad case that happened there in the city of Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was about a young boy. He was very young. He was an only child. The father and mother thought everything of him and did all […]
Sad Ending of a Life that Might have been Otherwise. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Sad Ending of a Life that Might have been Otherwise. – Dwight Lyman Moody Sad Ending of a Life that Might have been Otherwise. I remember a few years ago I felt very anxious for a man who was present at a meeting like this. At the close of the meeting I asked all to […]
Rational Belief – Dwight Lyman Moody
Rational Belief – Dwight Lyman Moody Once there were a couple of men arranging a balloon ascension. They thought they had two ropes fastened to the car, but one of them only was fastened, and they unfastened that one rope, and the balloon started to go up. One of the men seized hold of the […]
Redemption – Dwight Lyman Moody
Redemption – Dwight Lyman Moody Hebrews 9:11-12But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands… Once when I was revisiting my native village, I was going to a neighbouring town to preach, and saw a young man coming from a house […]
Remission Gives Confidence Under the Accusations of the Law – Dwight Lyman Moody
Remission Gives Confidence Under the Accusations of the Law – Dwight Lyman Moody Acts 2:38Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins… A man was once being tried for a crime, the punishment of which was death. The witnesses […]
Result of United Prayer – Dwight Lyman Moody
Result of United Prayer – Dwight Lyman Moody Acts 1:12-14Then returned they to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.… There was an old deacon in a city in Michigan who was connected with a church which had no conversion for sixteen years. He came to his death-bed, […]
Restitution Necessary to Peace – Dwight Lyman Moody
Restitution Necessary to Peace – Dwight Lyman Moody Luke 19:1-10And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.… Some years ago, in the north of England, a woman came to one of the meetings, and appeared to be very anxious about her soul. For some time she did not seem to be able to get peace. The […]
Rise and fall of nine rich men
Rise and fall of nine rich men Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za RISE AND FALL OF NINE RICH MEN A popular story recounts a meeting that may have taken place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago in 1923. There is debate whether the meeting in fact occurred, but what is not in question is the […]
Rest in peace
Rest in peace Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za REST IN PEACESix-year-old and his four-year-old sister presented their mom with a Mother’s Day present: a small, spindly house plant. While it wasn’t the finest looking specimen, they had bought it with their own money and Mom was thrilled. She hugged and kissed her children and told […]
Repent or burn
Repent or burn Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za REPENT OR BURN! Festo Kivengere, a leading evangelical minister in Uganda, wrote a book called I Love Idi Amin. In this book, he described the history of the church in Uganda, and in the following excerpt he told of the first Christian martyrs in the nation’s history: “Earlier […]
Recycling phenomena
Recycling phenomena Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za THE RECYCLING PHENOMENA Twice in one week, only because the Holy Spirit prompted me and by GOD’s Grace, I could obey. What happened twice this week? You could define it as a “phenomena”, however I also define it as “the true meaning of life”. I usually try to parallel […]