Malathion to CHRIST-Charles Spurgeon
Malathion to CHRIST-Charles Spurgeon Two friends are said to come into vulcan’s shop, and to beg a boon of him : it was granted. What was it ? That he would either beat them on his anvil, or melt them in his fur- ace, both into one. But without fiction, here is a far greater […]
Man Fallen – Charles H Spurgeon
Man Fallen – Charles H Spurgeon We saw at Hanover the unfinished palace of the deposed monarch: we were shown his state and private carriages and his stables of cream-coloured horses. A saddening sight to see all the emblems of sovereignty and no king; the insignia of royalty and the monarch for ever exiled. How […]
Mission-to the divine will-Charles Spurgeon
Mission-to the divine will – Charles Spurgeon Payson was asked, when under great bodily affliction, if he could see any particular reason for this dispensation. ” no,” replied he, “but i am as well satisfied as if 1 could see ten thousand ; god’s will is the very perfection of all reason.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp […]
MOTIVES. – Charles Spurgeon
MOTIVES. – Charles Spurgeon Standing near the remarkable spring at Ewell, in Surrey, and watching the uprising of the waters, one sees at the bottom of the pool innumerable circles with smaller circles within them, from which extremely fine sand is continually being upheaved by the force of the rising water. Tiny geysers upheave their […]
MORALIST. – Charles Spurgeon
MORALIST. – Charles Spurgeon THE dahlia would surely be a very empress among flowers if it had but perfume equal to its beauty ; even the rose might need to look 😮 her sovereignty. Florists have tried all their arts to scent this lovely child of autumn but in vain, no fragrance can be developed […]
MONEY-MAKIHG – Nothing but Play. – Charles Spurgeon
MONEY-MAKIHG – Nothing but Play. – Charles Spurgeon MR. RUSKIN, in his lecture on “Work,”* says :— ” What- ever we do to please ourselves, and only for the sake of the pleasure, not for an ultimate object, is ‘play,’ the ‘pleasing thing,’ not the useful thing. ‘. . . . The first of all […]
MISTAKES – Our Aptness to Make. – Charles Spurgeon
MISTAKES – Our Aptness to Make. – Charles Spurgeon We were riding along in the afternoon of a lovely but blazing day from Varallo to Riva, and to quench our thirst on the road we carried with us some bottles of an excellent lemonade. The empty bottles were of no use to us, and one […]
MINISTER — Apt Men Needed for it. – Charles Spurgeon
MINISTER — Apt Men Needed for it. – Charles Spurgeon “Amongst the Jesuits they have a rule, that they who are unapt for greater studies, shall study cases of conscience.” Is this to be adopted among Protestants, and when a man is too brainless to succeed in any common calling, is he therefore to argue […]
MINISTER— Should he a nursing Father. – Charles Spurgeon
MINISTER— Should he a nursing Father. – Charles Spurgeon In a church in Verona stands, or rather sits, a wooden image of St. Zeno, an ancient bishop, with knees so ludicrously short that there is no lap on which a babe could be dandled. He was not the first nor the last ecclesiastic who has […]
MINISTER Need ot Personal Tenderness, – Charles Spurgeon
MINISTER Need ot Personal Tenderness, – Charles Spurgeon Speaking of the temper requisite to the right discharge of ministerial duty, Person said, ” I never was fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself ; when I was subdued and melted into penitency, and felt as though […]
Making me long For Heaven – Charles H Spurgeon
Making me long for Heaven – Charles H Spurgeon We had traversed the Great Aletsch Glacier, and were very hungry when we reached the mountain tarn half-way between the Bel Alp and the hotel at the foot of the veggischorn ; there a peasant undertook to descend the mountain, and bring us bread and milk. […]
Minister – Charles Spurgeon
Minister – Charles Spurgeon HOWEVER learned, godly, and eloquent a minister may be, he is nothing without the Holy Spirit. The bell in the steeple may be well hung, fiiirly fashioned, and of soundest metal, but it is dumb until the ringer makes it speak j and in like manner the preacher has no voice […]
MEETS. – Charles Spurgeon
MEETS. – Charles Spurgeon A ship on her way to Australia met with a very terrible storm,andsprunga]cak. As evils seldom come alone, a little while after another tempest assailed her. There happened to be a gentleman on board, of the most nervous tempera- ment, whose garrulous tongue and important air were calculated to alarm all […]
MERCY -Seen in our Lives. – Charles Spurgeon
MERCY – Seen in our Lives. – Charles Spurgeon What a rugged, precipitous, ungainly pass is that Col D’Obbia ! It was shrewd common sense, and true humanity which suggested the erection of that poor little hospice at the summit. Never was a shelter more opportune, a refuge more welcome. One could not have expected […]
MERCY— Excellence of. – Charles Spurgeon
MERCY— Excellence of. – Charles Spurgeon I remember well being taken one day to see a gorgeous palace at Venice, where every piece of furniture was made with most exquisite taste, and of the richest material, where statues and pictures of enormous price abounded on all hands, and the floor of each mom was paved […]
MERCY – its Effect on the Soul. – Charles Spurgeon
MERCY – its Effect on the Soul. – Charles Spurgeon A MAN convicted of high treason and condemned to die is not only pardoned, but taken into the favour of his sovereign. He is riding in the royal carriage, and on the road he sees some of his fellow traitors pinioned and manacled, led forth […]
More to Follow – Charles Spurgeon
More to Follow – Charles Spurgeon A benevolent person gave Mr. Rowland Hill a hundred pounds to dispense to a poor minister, and thinking it was too much to send him all at once, Mr. Hill forwarded five pounds in a letter, with simply these words within the envelope, ” More to follow.” In a […]
MEDITATION – to be Practised. – Charles Spurgeon
MEDITATION – to be Practised. – Charles Spurgeon Those who would be in health do not sit still in their houses to breathe such air as may come to them, but they walk abroad and seek out rural and elevated spots that they may inhale the invigorating breezes; and thus those godly souls who would […]
MY NOTE BOOK – Charles H Spurgeon
MY NOTE BOOK – Charles H Spurgeon ABISEMEHT – To be rejoiced in. WHEN Latimer resigned his bishopric, Foxe tells us that as he put off his rochet from his shoulders he gave a skip on the floor for joy, ” feeling his shoulders so light at being discharged of such a burden.” To be […]
Multiplication Soulwinning
Multiplication Soulwinning Reflect on compounding interest, the repoductive cycles of nature, and the world’s biological population explosion. Soon it will be clear why the multiplication is God’s primary method for replenishing the earth. One unspayed female dog and her descendants can produce 4,372 puppies in just seven generations, and one unspayed cat and her offspring […]
Multiplication Soulwinning
Multiplication Soulwinning Reflect on compounding interest, the repoductive cycles of nature, and the world’s biological population explosion. Soon it will be clear why the multiplication is God’s primary method for replenishing the earth. One unspayed female dog and her descendants can produce 4,372 puppies in just seven generations, and one unspayed cat and her offspring […]
Make the Horse Thirsty
Make the Horse Thirsty A young salesman was disappointed about losing a big sale, and as he talked with his sales manager he lamented, “I guess it just proves you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” The manager replied, “Your job is not to make him drink. Your job […]
Man Falls short of the Standard
Man Falls short of the Standard Two men went to the recruiting office in London to join a guards regiment. The standard height for a guardsman was a minimum of six feet. One man was taller than the other, but when they were measured officially both were disqualified. The shorter of the two measured only […]
Meekness
Meekness “Meekness is the ability to disagree agreeably.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Many Will Follow the Antichrist
Many Will Follow the Antichrist “We do not need another committee. We have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man and be he god […]
Making a Difference
Making a Difference Noted historian Thomas C. Reeves, who for many years was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, wrote: “Christianity in modern America is, in large part, innocuous. It tends to be easy, upbeat, convenient, and compatible. It does not require self-sacrifice, discipline, humility, an otherworldly outlook, a zeal for souls, a fear […]
Mistaken Identity
Mistaken Identity A lady arranged the cremation of a body she believed was her son. He turned up alive the next day. Greater Manchester Police said the confusion began when the body of a man in his 30s was discovered in Manchester, northwest England, on Oct. 12. He was identified as Thomas Dennison, 39, by […]
Mysteries of Theology Solved only by God – Charles Spurgeon
Mysteries of Theology Solved only by God – Charles Spurgeon CERTAIN minds are very prone to contemplations upon themes more puzzling than profitable, such as predestination and free will. We have all of us, I suppose, picked at that Gordian knot in our time, and we have been vain enough to hope to untie it; […]
Motto for Life – Charles Spurgeon
Motto for Life – Charles Spurgeon WHILE you live let this be your motto—”All for Jesus, all for Jesus; all for the man of sorrows, all for the man of sorrows!” O you that love him, and fight for him, you are summoned to the front. Hasten to the conflict, I pray you, and charge […]
Moses, Solitude of – Charles Spurgeon
Moses, Solitude of – Charles Spurgeon I SUPPOSE every person who is called to serve God in a remarkable manner, or to suffer for him in a particular way, must have noticed the solitariness of his own life. Do not tell me about solitude being only in the wilderness; a man may have plenty of […]
Mortality, Reminders of – Charles Spurgeon
Mortality, Reminders of – Charles Spurgeon THE whole of nature around us helps us to recollect that we are mortal. Look at the year. It is born amid the songs of birds and the beauty of upspringing flowers, it comes to its ripeness and luscious fruits and shouts of harvest home; but anon the old […]
Morality, not Saving – Charles Spurgeon
Morality, not Saving – Charles Spurgeon TO save the moral needs divine grace as certainly as to save the immoral. If you be lost, my dear hearer, it will be small avail to you that you perished respectably, and were accursed in decent company: if you lack but one thing, yet if the deficiency be […]
Moralist, Description of a – Charles Spurgeon
Moralist, Description of a – Charles Spurgeon I TELL you, moralist, what you are; you are a corpse well washed and decently laid out, daintily robed in fair white linen, sprinkled plenteously with sweet perfumes, and wrapped in myrrh, and cassia, and aloes, with flowers wreathed about your brow, and your bosom bedecked by the […]
Monotony of Life – Charles Spurgeon
Monotony of Life – Charles Spurgeon I NOTICED in a shop window last week a little invention of singular interest. A small metal wire, with a circular disc at each end, was suspended by a thread, and continued without ceasing to oscillate between two small galvanic batteries, first touching one and then the other. A […]
Mistakes, Fatal – Charles Spurgeon
Mistakes, Fatal – Charles Spurgeon DO not make mistakes about your soul’s eternal matters, for mistakes here will be fatal: be built upon the rock, and be surely built on it; do not be afraid of being shaken now, because you must be shaken before long. That silent chamber must be tenanted by you, and […]
Missionary, Honor of a – Charles Spurgeon
Missionary, Honor of a – Charles Spurgeon I SHOULD not like you, if meant by the gifts of God for a great missionary, to die a millionaire. I should not like it, were you fitted to be a missionary, that you should drivel down into a king; for what are all your kings, what are […]
Misery, the Plea of the Sinner – Charles Spurgeon
Misery, the Plea of the Sinner – Charles Spurgeon A MAN lying on the field of battle wounded, when the surgeon comes round, or the soldiers with the ambulance, does not say, “Oh, mine is a little wound,” for he knows that then they would let him lie; but he cries out, “I have been […]
Music and Purity
Music and Purity In an eye-opening study, researchers have found that teenagers who listen to songs with raunchy, suggestive lyrics are more likely to lose their purity than those who do not listen to such songs. In 2001, researchers surveyed 1,461 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17. Most of the participants were virgins at […]
Mercy Is Undeserved
Mercy Is Undeserved A mother once approached Napoleon seeking a pardon for her son. The emperor replied that the young man had committed a certain offense twice and justice demanded death. “But I don’t ask for justice,” the mother explained. “I plead for mercy.” “But your son does not deserve mercy,” Napoleon replied. “Sir,” the […]
Myths of Motherhood
Myths of Motherhood Somebody said that a child is carried in its mother’s womb for nine months.Somebody does not know that a child is carried in its mother’s heart forever. Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you’ve had a baby.Somebody doesn’t know that once you’re a mother, normal […]
Mirth, Holy – Charles Spurgeon
Mirth, Holy – Charles Spurgeon THE priests of old were not to sully themselves with sorrow when they performed their functions, and saints who are of a higher priesthood should show forth delight in their approaches to their God. Angels sing, and why not God’s other servants, who are a little lower, and yet far […]
Ministry of the Apostle, Conversion the One Object of the – Charles Spurgeon
Ministry of the Apostle, Conversion the One Object of the – Charles Spurgeon IS it not very possible to work up a congregation to the highest possible state of excitement upon their bereavements, and yet after all have gained no step in advance in the direction of their eternal salvation? The deaths of the Herod […]
Ministry, Living—Christ the Sum of a – Charles Spurgeon
Ministry, Living—Christ the Sum of a – Charles Spurgeon I KNOW that those ministries which consist of only fine-sounding words, climaxes, perorations, and all the florid strains and paltry tricks of play-actors, can never slake the thirst of a living soul. These are not true preachers, but mimics, who retail that empty stuff, that scum […]
Ministry, A Searching – Charles Spurgeon
Ministry, A Searching – Charles Spurgeon EVERY true preacher of the gospel will be sure to become a spiritual detective. He may not know anything of his hearers, but in the course of his ministry he will speak as if he had entered into the very chambers of their heart, and read the secrets of […]
Ministries, Results of some – Charles Spurgeon
Ministries, Results of some – Charles Spurgeon THE final result of some ministries appears to be a Gothic chapel in the place of the less ornamental but more serviceable old meeting-house. The good man feels that he has ministered to edification as a wise master-builder, when he hears passers-by say of his new edifice, “What […]
Ministries, Rootlessness of some – Charles Spurgeon
Ministries, Rootlessness of some – Charles Spurgeon HOW many has God blessed in the ministry for a little while, or, if not in the ministry, in some other form of service? and, alas! how soon have they swollen with conceit, and have become too big for the world to hold them! Puffed up with vanity, […]
Ministries, Rejected—Condemnation in – Charles Spurgeon
Ministries, Rejected—Condemnation in – Charles Spurgeon WE cannot tell what the metal is until we get it in the fire, but the fire tries it: and if you have lain long in the white heat of an impressive gospel ministry, the love of Jesus being like coals of juniper, and yet you have never been […]
Ministers’ Commission from God – Charles Spurgeon
Ministers’ Commission from God – Charles Spurgeon A MINISTER stands trembling in the presence of a learned schoolmaster, who, with twenty schoolboys, makes an important item in a village congregation—is that a consistent condition of heart for a prophet of the Lord? A preacher is all on a quiver because a person with a white […]
Ministers to be Fearless – Charles Spurgeon
Ministers to be Fearless – Charles Spurgeon YOU are of no use in the ministry, my dear brother, if you are not quite willing to be called a fool, to be called a thief, or even to be called a devil! You will never be successful if you are afraid of being pelted. The true […]
Message to Sinners – Charles Spurgeon
Message to Sinners – Charles Spurgeon SHIPS are sometimes surrounded by a dense fog, and the mariners know not whether they are near the land or on the wide ocean—they lie becalmed, with no stir in the air, no stir in the sea; the ship has been like a lost thing, without power of motion […]
Mercy-seat, Ministers’ Familiarity with the – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy-seat, Ministers’ Familiarity with the – Charles Spurgeon AMONG all the formative influences which go to make up a man honored of God in the ministry, I know of none more mighty than his own familiarity with the mercy-seat. All that a college course can do for a student is coarse and external compared with […]
Mercy Waiting for the Sinner – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy Waiting for the Sinner – Charles Spurgeon AS I think upon some of you who are not saved, I feel something like the boy I read of in the newspapers. There were two lads on the great rocks of Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel, looking for sea-gulls’ eggs; one of them went far […]
Mercy, Temple of – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy, Temple of – Charles Spurgeon I WOULD liken God’s mercy to a great temple which strong men have sought to overturn with their utmost might. They have labored to overturn the two great pillars whereon the house leans. The ancient temple of the Philistines stood firm enough until an unexpected hero entered it: Samson […]
Mercy, Sparing—Gratitude for – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy, Sparing—Gratitude for – Charles Spurgeon HAVE you seen those foul dungeons of Venice, which are below the water-mark of the canal, where, after winding through narrow, dark, stifling passages, you may creep into little cells in which a man can scarcely stand upright, where no ray of sunlight has ever entered since the foundations […]
Mercy, Invitation to the House of—Refused – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy, Invitation to the House of—Refused – Charles Spurgeon WHEN the dove was weary, she recollected the ark, and flew into Noah’s hand at once. Oh, you weary ones, who know the ark, why will you not fly to it? When an Israelite had slain, inadvertently, his fellow, he knew the city of refuge, he […]
Mercy, Hanging on – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy, Hanging on – Charles Spurgeon MAY not the endurance of divine grace be faintly pictured in the following scene? Out yonder, just beyond those grinding rocks, there is a vessel, rolling and tossing on the jagged granite, and evidently going to pieces. See you not the mariners clinging to the masts? It is not […]
Mercy, God’s Delight in – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy, God’s Delight in – Charles Spurgeon MERCY is God’s Benjamin, and he delights most of all in it. It is the son of his right hand, though, alas! in bringing it forth, it might well have been called the son of sorrow too, for mercy came into this world through the sorrows of the […]
Mercy, fullness of—In Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy, fullness of—In Christ – Charles Spurgeon IF a sinner anywhere is saying, “God be merciful to me!” mercy has not gone out on travel, it dwells in Christ both night and day; it is there now at this moment. There is life in a look at the crucified One, not at certain canonical hours, […]
Mercy, Fullness of – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy, Fullness of – Charles Spurgeon WILL you, my fellow debtor, stand still awhile, and contemplate the abundant mercy of our blessed God! A river deep and broad is before you. Track it to its fountain head; see it welling up in the covenant of grace, in the eternal purposes of infinite wisdom. The secret […]
Mercy for Sinners – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy for Sinners – Charles Spurgeon THERE is no room for a man to be generous among yonder splendid mansions in Belgravia. Suppose a man had thousands of pounds in his pocket, and desired to give it away in charity, he would be terribly hampered amid princely palaces. If he were to knock at the […]
Mercy an Argument for Service – Charles Spurgeon
Mercy an Argument for Service – Charles Spurgeon SITTING down in the Orphanage grounds upon one of the seats, we were talking with one of our brother trustees, when a little fellow, we should think about eight years of age, left the other boys who were playing around us, and came deliberately up to us. […]
Mercies, Temporal—Sanctified by Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Mercies, Temporal—Sanctified by Christ – Charles Spurgeon TEMPORAL mercies without Christ are like ciphers without a figure; but when you have these temporal mercies, and Christ stands in front of them, oh, what an amount they make! Temporal mercies without Christ are unripe fruit; but when Christ shines upon them, they grow mellow and sweet. […]
Mercies, Unexpected – Charles Spurgeon
Mercies, Unexpected – Charles Spurgeon MUCH of the pleasantness of a journey lies in unexpected views and scenes which burst upon the traveler as he climbs a hill or descends into a dale. If he could see all at once, one long, unvariegated avenue, it would become weary walking for him; but the very freshness […]
Memories of Christ’s Dealings – Charles Spurgeon
Memories of Christ’s Dealings – Charles Spurgeon BELOVED, remember what you have heard of Christ, and what he has done for you; make your heart the golden cup to hold the rich recollections of his past loving-kindness; make it a pot of manna to preserve the heavenly bread whereon saints have fed in days gone […]
Meditation the Telescope of Faith – Charles Spurgeon
Meditation the Telescope of Faith – Charles Spurgeon MEDITATION and contemplation are often like windows of agate, and gates of carbuncle, through which we see the Redeemer. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen him if we had lived in […]
Medicine of Trouble – Charles Spurgeon
Medicine of Trouble – Charles Spurgeon HEIR of Heaven, your present trials are yours in the sense of medicine. You need that your soul, like your body, should be dealt with by the beloved Physician. A thousand diseases have sown their seeds within you; one evil will often bring on another, and the cure of […]
Medical Missions, Plea for – Charles Spurgeon
Medical Missions, Plea for – Charles Spurgeon OUR Lord was a medical missionary: he not only preached the gospel, but he opened the eyes of the blind, cured those who were afflicted with fevers, made the lame to leap as a deer, and the tongue of the dumb to sing. You may say that all […]
Means of Grace Valued by Humble Souls – Charles Spurgeon
Means of Grace Valued by Humble Souls – Charles Spurgeon ON foggy nights every twopenny link boy is a jewel. He is of no use in the day; we drive the urchin away; but when it is very thick and foggy, we are glad to see the blaze of his torch. When we are high […]
Masters and Servants – Charles Spurgeon
Masters and Servants – Charles Spurgeon NOW-A-DAYS people change their servants once a month, and there are some servants who stop too long even then; but it strikes me that good masters and good mistresses make good servants; and where love and kindness are shown, it will not always, nor often, be the case that […]
Martha and Mary – Charles Spurgeon
Martha and Mary – Charles Spurgeon WHEN Lazarus was dead, you will remember Martha ran to meet Christ, but Mary sat still in the house; Martha wanted her own time, Mary could take Christ’s time. So after awhile, just before our Lord’s death, we find that Mary did a grand action, she did what Martha […]
Marriage, A Model – Charles Spurgeon
Marriage, A Model – Charles Spurgeon SOMETIMES we have seen a model marriage, founded in pure love and cemented in mutual esteem. Therein the husband acts as a tender head, and the wife, as a true spouse, realizes the model marriage relation, and sets forth what our oneness with the Lord ought to be. She […]
Manhood Honored in Christ’s Humanity – Charles Spurgeon
Manhood Honored in Christ’s Humanity – Charles Spurgeon O MY soul, you do not stand now like a poor lone orphan wailing across the deep sea after your Father who has gone far away and cannot hear you; you do not now sob and sigh like an infant left naked and helpless, its Maker having […]
Man Tuned by God’s Hand – Charles Spurgeon
Man Tuned by God’s Hand – Charles Spurgeon MAN is like a harp unstrung, and the music of his soul’s living strings is discordant, his whole nature wails with sorrow; but the son of David, that mighty harper, has come to restore the harmony of humanity, and where his gracious fingers move among the strings, […]
Man before the Fall – Charles Spurgeon
Man before the Fall – Charles Spurgeon WE all should be glad enough to welcome the return of the primeval gladness of Eden, but that is not the question; it is, should we be willing to be made mentally and morally what Adam was before his sin brought disease into manhood? And what was Adam? […]
Magnifying our Troubles – Charles Spurgeon
Magnifying our Troubles – Charles Spurgeon BEING once surrounded by a dense mist on the Styhead Pass in the Lake District, we felt ourselves to be transported into a world of mystery, where everything was swollen to a size and appearance more vast, more terrible than is usual on this sober planet. A little mountain […]
Money Hungry
Money Hungry Termites ate 10 million rupees ($222,000) in money that was stored at a bank in a steel chest. The manager of the bank in Barabanki, India discovered the damage on April 20, 2011. Termites had damaged furniture in the bank before. Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and […]
Marriage and Cohabitation Statistics
Marriage and Cohabitation Statistics In 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report based on a nationwide survey of 10,847 women. They found that twenty percent of first marriages end in divorce or separation within five years while forty-nine percent of premarital cohabitation relationships end within that same time frame. When these […]
Money or Souls?
Money or Souls? Suppose someone were to offer you a thousand dollars for every soul you would earnestly try to lead to Christ, would you endeavor to lead any more souls to Him than you are endeavoring to do now? Is it possible that you would attempt to do for money what you hesitate or […]
Misunderstanding
Misunderstanding Driving through Texas, a New Yorker collided with a truck carrying a horse. A few months later he tried to collect damages for his injuries. “How can you now claim to have all these injuries?” asked the insurance company’s lawyer. “According the police report, at the time you said you were not hurt.” “It’s […]
Mistakes
Mistakes When a drum major tossed his baton in Ventura, California, it hit two 4000-volt power lines, blacking out a ten-block area and putting a radio station off the air. The baton melted. A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money to his checking […]
Missing the Ball
Missing the Ball Did you hear about the man who went golfing? He missed the ball three times then said, “Boy, this is a rough course.” It is easy to blame adverse circumstances when we miss the mark and sin. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Music Q & A
Music Q & A Q: How do you get two piccolos to play a perfect unison?A: Shoot one Q: What’s the difference between a bassoon and a trampoline?A: You take off your shoes when you jump on a trampoline. Q: How do you make a chain saw sound like an alto sax?A: Add vibrato. Q: […]
Mushroom Poisoning
Mushroom Poisoning Mrs. Mohler was being cross-examined about the death of her third husband. The attorney asked, “What happened to your first husband?” Mrs. Mohler replied, “He died of mushroom poisoning.” The attorney then inquired about her second husband. She said that he too died from mushroom poisoning. The attorney then asked, “And what about […]
Making Cookies for a Funeral
Making Cookies for a Funeral An elderly man was at home, dying in bed. He smelled the aroma of his favorite chocolate chip cookies baking. He wanted one last cookie before he died. He fell out of bed, crawled to the landing, rolled down the stairs, and crawled into the kitchen where his wife was […]
Marrying a Veteran
Marrying a Veteran Sign posted in the Army recruiting office: “Marry a veteran, girls. He can cook, make beds, sew, and is already used to taking orders.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Motivation to Do More
Motivation to Do More A farm boy got a white football for Christmas. He played with it awhile and accidentally kicked it over into the neighbor’s yard. The old rooster ran out, looked at it, and called the hens to see it. “Now look here,” the rooster told them, “I don’t want you to think […]
My Pastor Will Find Me
My Pastor Will Find Me Two men were marooned on an island. One man paced back and forth like he thought it was the last day of his life, while the other man relaxed and appeared unconcerned. The first man said to the second man, “Aren’t you afraid? We are about to die.” “No,” said […]
Mother’s Day Payback
Mother’s Day Payback In a story about some of the worst Mother’s Day gifts ever given, the Houston Chronicle repoted a story about Jerry Maltz giving his wife an iron. He got the message when she gave him an ironing board for Father’s Day. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Memorizing & Studying Bible Low Priorities George -George Mueller
Memorizing & Studying Bible Low Priorities George -George Mueller Memorizing & Studying Bible Low Priorities George Barna Research reports “Our most recent surveys indicate that about half of all adult Amerocans listen to preaching or Bible teaching in a typical week.” Although 1 out of 3 read the Bible during the week, only 1 out […]
My Name Is George Snodgrass. I Really Believe ..-George Mueller
My Name Is George Snodgrass. I Really Believe ..-George Mueller “My name is George Snodgrass. I really believe that if Pastor DoGood would stop ending his sermons with the phrase, ‘But then again, what… Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
My Name Is George Snodgrass. I Really Believe ..-George Mueller
Make Large Plans
Make Large Plans On December 22, 1899, the evangelist D. L. Moody lay dying. His first job had been as a shoe clerk in Boston, gathering eighteen ragged boys off the street to organize a Sunday school class. In two years the class had grown to fifteen hundred. In his lifetime Moody was to take […]
Motivation to Keep Going
Motivation to Keep Going I heard once of a man who dreamed that he was swept into Heaven, and oh, he was so delighted to think that he had at last got there. All at once one came and said: “Come, I want to show you something.” He took him to the battlements, and he […]
Memorizing & Studying Bible Low Priorities George Barna Research reports-George Mueller
Memorizing & Studying Bible Low Priorities George Barna Research reports-George Mueller Memorizing & Studying Bible Low Priorities George Barna Research reports “Our most recent surveys indicate that about half of all adult Amerocans listen to preaching or Bible teaching in a typical week.” Although 1 out of 3 read the Bible during the week, only […]
Monarch Migration
Monarch Migration Monarch butterflies are a celebrated species that automatically capture attention with their brilliant beauty. Each fall, these butterflies migrate from the United States and Canada to Angangueo, Mexico. Amazingly, they all congregate at the top of the same mountain each year with phenomenal punctuality around the first of November. They are so dense […]
Multitasking
Multitasking Adams Towing service got some pretty bad press in August 2009. One of their trucks was pictured in newspapers all across the country. It was damaged and partially submerged in a backyard swimming pool with another vehicle in tow. Law enforcement officials outside of Buffalo, New York said the 25-year-old driver was texting on one […]
Mrs. Moody Teaching her Child. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Mrs. Moody Teaching her Child. – Dwight Lyman Moody There was a time when our little boy did not like to go to church, and would get up in the morning and say to his mother, “What day is to-morrow?” “Tuesday.” “Next day?” “Wednesday.” “Next day?” “Thursday;” and so on, till he came to the answer, […]
Madness and Death. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Madness and Death. – Dwight Lyman Moody I was coming along north Clark street one evening when a man shot past me like an arrow. But he had seen me, and turned and seized me by the arm. Saying eagerly, “Can I be saved to-night. The devil is coming to take me to hell at […]
Moody with Gen. Grant’s Army in Richmond. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody with Gen. Grant’s Army in Richmond. – Dwight Lyman Moody It was my privilege to go to Richmond with Gen. Grant’s army. Now just let us picture a scene. There are a thousand poor captives, and they are lawful captives, prisoners in Libby Prison. Talk to some of them that have been there for […]
Moody on “Duty”—How He Loves His Mother. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody on “Duty”—How He Loves His Mother. – Dwight Lyman Moody I have an old mother away down in the Connecticut mountains, and I have been in the habit of going to see her every year for twenty years. Suppose I go there and say, “Mother, you were very kind to me when I was […]
Moody’s Attitude toward Heaven
Moody’s Attitude toward Heaven Thousands came to faith in Christ through Moody’s meetings. As he approached the end of his life, he viewed Heaven as something to anticipate. Moody wrote: “Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that […]
Moody Asks a Few Questions. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody Asks a Few Questions. – Dwight Lyman Moody Let me ask you a question. Do you think that those gamblers, thieves, harlots, and drunkards who are trampling the ten commandments under their feet, they who have never given any respect to God’s Word or to His instructions—do you think they will be swept into […]
Murmuring
Murmuring “Murmuring is an outward manifestation of an inward lawlessness and rebellion against a holy God.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Mothers are Looking Down from Heaven. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Mothers are Looking Down from Heaven. – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember in the Exposition building in Dublin, while I was speaking about Heaven, I said something to the effect that at this moment a mother is looking down from Heaven expecting the salvation of her daughter here to-night, and I pointed down to a […]
Moody in a California Sunday School. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody in a California Sunday School. – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember when I went to California just to try and get a few souls saved on the Pacific coast, I went into a school there and asked, “Have you got some one who can write a plain hand?” “Yes.” Well, we got up the […]
Messages on Church Signs
Messages on Church Signs Free trip to Heaven—details inside. Try our Sundays. They are better than Baskin-Robbins’. Searching for a new look? Have your faith lifted here! Have trouble sleeping? We have sermons—come hear one! People are like tea bags—you have to put them in hot water before you know how strong they are. Come […]
Mark Twain on Reading
Mark Twain on Reading “A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Moody’s First Sermon on Grace. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody’s First Sermon on Grace. – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember preaching one night in winter—one of the coldest winters we had—the winter after the Chicago fire. I had been studying up grace, and it was the first time I had spoken of it, and I was just full of it. I started out of […]
Moody and the Judge. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody and the Judge. – Dwight Lyman Moody A number of years ago as I was coming out of a daily prayer meeting in one of our Western cities, a lady came up to me and said: “I want to have you see my husband and ask him to come to Christ.” She says, “I […]
Moody in a Billiard Hall.—A Remarkable Story. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody in a Billiard Hall.—A Remarkable Story. – Dwight Lyman Moody In a meeting recently a man got up. I didn’t know him at first. When I was here he was a rumseller, and broke up his business and went to the mountains. This is how it happened. When I was here before, he opened […]
Mr. Morehouse’s Illustration. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Mr. Morehouse’s Illustration. – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember Mr. Morehouse, while here four years ago, used an illustration which has fastened itself on my mind. He said, suppose you go up the street and meet a man whom you have known for the last ten years to be a beggar, and you notice a […]
Moody Puts a Man in his “Prophet’s Room.” – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody Puts a Man in his “Prophet’s Room.” – Dwight Lyman Moody A few years ago as I stood at the door of a church giving out invitations to a meeting to take place that evening, a young man to whom I offered one said, “I want something more than that. I want something to […]
Moody’s Mistake. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody’s Mistake. – Dwight Lyman Moody The last time I preached upon this question was in old Farwell Hall. I had been for five nights preaching upon the life of Christ. I took him from the cradle and followed Him up to the judgment hall, and on that occasion I consider I made as great […]
Mark Me Absent
Mark Me Absent Two sisters were playing together when eight-year-old Martha insisted that they play school. Five-year-old Jenny wasn’t the least bit interested in thinking about school, but the older sister wouldn’t take “No” for an answer. Finally, little Jenny conceded and said, “OK, I’ll play.” She then added, “Mark me absent!” Unfortunately, that is […]
Moody a Young Convert. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody a Young Convert. – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember soon after I got converted a pantheist got hold of me, and just tried to draw me back to the world. Those men who try to get hold of a young convert are the worst set of men. I don’t know a worse man than […]
Mr. Moody’s First Impulse in Converting Souls. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Mr. Moody’s First Impulse in Converting Souls. – Dwight Lyman Moody I want to tell you how I got the first impulse to work solely for the conversion of men. For a long time after my conversion I didn’t accomplish anything. I hadn’t got into my right place; that was it. I hadn’t thought enough […]
Map of the World
Map of the World A young father wanted to read a magazine but he was being bothered by his little daughter, Vanessa. Finally, he tore a page out of his magazine on which was printed a map of the world. Tearing it into small pieces, he gave it to Vanessa, and said, “Go into the […]
MAGNETS AND MOTHERS
MAGNETS AND MOTHERS A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: “My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?” When the test papers were turned […]
Molding a Man
Molding a Man I took a piece of plastic clay,And idly fashioned it one day,And as my fingers pursued it still,It moved and yielded at my will. It came of age when days were past,And the piece of clay was hard at last…The form I gave it, it still bore,But I could change it no […]
Moody in Prison. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody in Prison. – Dwight Lyman Moody I have good news to tell you—Christ is come after you. I was at the Fulton-street prayer-meeting, a good many years ago, one Saturday night, and when the meeting was over, a man came to me and said, “I would like to have you go down to the […]
Moody’s Little Emma. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody’s Little Emma. – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember one time my little girl was teasing her mother to get her a muff, and so one day her mother brought a muff home, and, although it was storming, she very naturally wanted to go out in order to try her new muff. So she tried […]
Mother’s Nurse
Mother’s Nurse A little girl was trying very hard to take care of her sick mother. She did everything to make her mom feel more comfortable in bed, then quietly slipped into the kitchen. She had seen her mother make hot tea for her father when he was sick, so she set out to do […]
Mark Me Absent
Mark Me Absent Two sisters were playing together when eight-year-old Martha insisted that they play school. Five-year-old Jenny wasn’t the least bit interested in thinking about school, but the older sister wouldn’t take “No” for an answer. Finally, little Jenny conceded and said, “OK, I’ll play.” She then added, “Mark me absent!” Unfortunately, that is […]
MOTHERHOOD STATISTICS
MOTHERHOOD STATISTICS There were 5.6 million stay-at-home mothers in 2006. Somewhere between 61 percent and 81 percent of children under the age of six eat breakfast and dinner with their mother every single day. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
MOTHER’S OPINION
MOTHER’S OPINION 4 years of age: My mommy can do anything! 8 years of age: My mom knows a whole lot! 12 years of age: My mother doesn’t really know quite everything. 14 years of age: Naturally, Mother doesn’t know that either. 16 years of age: Mother? She’s hopelessly old-fashioned. 18 years of age: That […]
MAKING A STRAIGHT PATH IN THE SNOW
MAKING A STRAIGHT PATH IN THE SNOW Two boys were playing in the snow one day; when one said to the other, “Let us see who can make the straightest path in the snow.” His companion readily accepted the proposition, and they started. One boy fixed his eyes on a tree, and walked along without […]
Moody and the Infidel. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody and the Infidel. – Dwight Lyman Moody An infidel had come the other day, to one of our meetings, and when I talked with him, he replied that he didn’t believe onetwelfth part of the Bible, but I kept on quoting Scripture, feeling that if the man didn’t believe, God could do what He […]
MAN SWALLOWED BY A WHALE
MAN SWALLOWED BY A WHALE In February 1891, the Star of the East was whale hunting off the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. While pursuing a large sperm whale, one of the two boats was capsized by the leviathan. The hunters went on to kill the whale but feared two of their men had […]
Moody and the Dying Soldier. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody and the Dying Soldier. – Dwight Lyman Moody After the battle of Pittsburgh Landing and Murfreesboro’ I was in a hospital at Murfreesboro’. And one night after midnight, I was woke up and told that there was a man in one of the wards who wanted to see me. I went to him and […]
Moody’s Declaration. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody’s Declaration. – Dwight Lyman Moody A great many people say, “Mr. Moody, I would like to know whether I am a Christian or not. I would like to know if I am saved.” The longer I live the more I am convinced that it is one of the greatest privileges of a child of […]
MADALYN MURRAY O’HAIR
MADALYN MURRAY O’HAIR Madalyn Murray O’Hair vanished in 1995. When her diaries were found she often cried, “Somebody, somewhere please love me.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
MISDIRECTED LUGGAGE
MISDIRECTED LUGGAGE While checking his bags at the airport, a man became indignant with the employee who handled luggage. For several minutes he belittled the young man and criticized his every move. Surprisingly, the curbside porter didn’t seem troubled by this man’s verbal abuse. After the angry man entered the airport, a woman approached the […]
Morality and Liberty
Morality and Liberty “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when […]
Mrs. Moody Teaching Her Child – Dwight Lyman Moody
Mrs. Moody Teaching Her Child – Dwight Lyman Moody There was a time when our little boy did not like to go to church, and would get up in the morning and say to his mother, “What day is to-morrow?” “Tuesday.” “Next day?” “Wednesday.” “Next day?” “Thursday;” and so on, till he came to the […]
Mr. Morehouse’s Illustration – Dwight Lyman Moody
Mr. Morehouse’s Illustration – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember Mr. Morehouse, while here four years ago, used an illustration which has fastened itself on my mind. He said, suppose you go up the street and meet a man whom you have known for the last ten years to be a beggar, and you notice a […]
Mothers are Looking Down from Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody
Mothers are Looking Down from Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember in the Exposition building in Dublin, while I was speaking about Heaven, I said something to the effect that at this moment a mother is looking down from Heaven expecting the salvation of her daughter here to-night, and I pointed down to a […]
Moody’s Little Emma – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody’s Little Emma – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember one time my little girl was teasing her mother to get her a muff, and so one day her mother brought a muff home, and, although it was storming, she very naturally wanted to go out in order to try her new muff. So she tried […]
Moody’s Declaration – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody’s Declaration – Dwight Lyman Moody A great many people say, “Mr. Moody, I would like to know whether I am a Christian or not. I would like to know if I am saved.” The longer I live the more I am convinced that it is one of the greatest privileges of a child of […]
Moody with Gen. Grant’s Army in Richmond – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody with Gen. Grant’s Army in Richmond – Dwight Lyman Moody It was my privilege to go to Richmond with Gen. Grant’s army. Now just let us picture a scene. There are a thousand poor captives, and they are lawful captives, prisoners in Libby Prison. Talk to some of them that have been there for […]
Moody Visits Prang’s Chromo Establishment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody Visits Prang’s Chromo Establishment – Dwight Lyman Moody When I went to Boston, I went into Mr. Prang’s chromo establishment. I wanted to know how the work was done. He took me to a stone several feet square, where he took the first impression, but when he took the paper off the stone I […]
Moody Puts a Man in His Prophet’s Room – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody Puts a Man in His Prophet’s Room – Dwight Lyman Moody A few years ago as I stood at the door of a church giving out invitations to a meeting to take place that evening, a young man to whom I offered one said, “I want something more than that. I want something to […]
Moody on Duty — How He Loves His Mother – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody on Duty — How He Loves His Mother – Dwight Lyman Moody I have an old mother away down in the Connecticut mountains, and I have been in the habit of going to see her every year for twenty years. Suppose I go there and say, “Mother, you were very kind to me when […]
Moody and the Judge – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody and the Judge – Dwight Lyman Moody A number of years ago as I was coming out of a daily prayer meeting in one of our Western cities, a lady came up to me and said: “I want to have you see my husband and ask him to come to Christ.” She says, “I […]
Moody and the Infidel – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody and the Infidel – Dwight Lyman Moody An infidel had come the other day, to one of our meetings, and when I talked with him, he replied that he didn’t believe one-twelfth part of the Bible, but I kept on quoting Scripture, feeling that if the man didn’t believe, God could do what He […]
Moody and His Little Willie – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody and His Little Willie – Dwight Lyman Moody I said to my little family, one morning, a few weeks before the Chicago fire, “I am coming home this afternoon to give you a ride.” My little boy clapped his hands. “Oh, papa, will you take me to see the bears in Lincoln Park?” “Yes.” […]
Moody a Young Convert – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody a Young Convert – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember soon after I got converted a pantheist got hold of me, and just tried to draw me back to the world. Those men who try to get hold of a young convert are the worst set of men. I don’t know a worse man than […]
Money Blind – Dwight Lyman Moody
Money Blind – Dwight Lyman Moody I heard of a man who had accumulated great wealth, and death came upon him suddenly, and he realized, as the saying is, that “there was no bank in the shroud,” that he couldn’t take anything away with him; we may have all the money on earth, but we […]
Madness and Death – Dwight Lyman Moody
Madness and Death – Dwight Lyman Moody I was coming along north Clark street one evening when a man shot past me like an arrow. But he had seen me, and turned and seized me by the arm. Saying eagerly, “Can I be saved to-night. The devil is coming to take me to hell at […]
More to Follow – Dwight Lyman Moody
More to Follow – Dwight Lyman Moody Rowland Hill tells a good story of a rich man and a poor man in his congregation. The rich man desired to do an act of benevolence, and so he sent a sum of money to a friend to be given to this poor man as he thought […]
Many Fastenings to the Sinner’s Heart – Dwight Lyman Moody
Many Fastenings to the Sinner’s Heart – Dwight Lyman Moody Revelation 3:20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him… When we were in Dublin, I went out one morning to an early meeting, and […]
Mohammedism or Christi-Unity – Dwight Lyman Moody
Mohammedism or Christi-Unity – Dwight Lyman Moody Isaiah 55:7-9Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him… I have heard men say, often, Why is it Jesus Christ has so few disciples? The Gospel has been preached for […]
My heart
My heart Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za MY HEART. Once I had a heart of stone For it had surley lost its home It could not love or wanted too But in my life, then came you. …The stones began to fall away As happiness began to fill my day A feeling so sweet and […]
Mother taught us to pray
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Mixing diesel and gasoline fuels
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Mighty God
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Mavis lay an egg
Mavis lay an egg Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za MAVIS LAYS AN EGG On a bright, beautiful day, full of promise, Mavis laid an egg. This was not an extraordinary event since Mavis was a chicken, but Mavis was not pleased. “An egg? An egg? What do I want with an egg?” said Mavis to herself. […]