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ILLUSTRATIONS
A wide selection of illustrations, alphabetical subjects from A's, B's and C's.
These are realistic, from history, nature, current events, well-researched.
Three Sections available: A's, B's and C's
Each Illustration is original, well-written, logical - with appropriate spiritual applications.
These are useful to deepen and broaden sermon and lesson development.
They could be used in small group studies, led by a lay person.
Check out the samples below.
These are realistic, from history, nature, current events, well-researched.
Three Sections available: A's, B's and C's
Each Illustration is original, well-written, logical - with appropriate spiritual applications.
These are useful to deepen and broaden sermon and lesson development.
They could be used in small group studies, led by a lay person.
Check out the samples below.
A's 83 Illustrations with
25 Separate Subjects.
Sample/Adversity coming John Quincy Adams lacked a thriving practice when first posting his Law license. He spent a lot of time with friends drinking, roistering, pulling pranks. He did notice that it seemed to be his luck to attract a client the day after one of those nights. Diary of John Quincy Adams. Maybe today will be better than we expect. Maybe it will be worse. It may be “one of those days” we don’t need TODAY! Whatever we face, God knows our name, phone number, email; our limits and our potentials; and any other information that makes us one of many—the ONE God loves! Whatever we face, he’s in it with us. Whatever the challenge, he empowers us. Lean on Jesus; he supports all his disciples. Trust him; he never fails any believer. And if we reach the end of our capacity, and we slip away, his everlasting arms will always stretch beneath, breaking the fall and enveloping us in grace. Sample: Action costs A man told the story of a hunter who had always wanted to kill a deer, but had previously failed. One time he saw a buck standing against a tree, asleep. The hunter knew he had at last found his deer. As he raised his rifle to shoot, he began to make plans. He would of course take the meat to his family. Then he would make moccasins from the hide. Then trade one pair for a calf. Then the calf would mature into cow, producing milk and cheese and calves. One would become a strong ox which he would trade for a mare. Which would have a colt. Which he would trade for a jack. Which the jack and mare would produce mules; raising them would become his vocation. He would have, could he count them, two, four, six, eight, etc. Just seeing the number of mules in his corral and grazing his land so excited him that he yelled aloud—and the buck awakened and like a shot vanished before the hunter could pull the trigger. The Grizzly Bear, 276-277 |
B's 48 Illustrations with
9 Separate Subjects.
Sample/Bible contexts Matthew 1:16 has Jacob as the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born. Yet, the Greek text uses a feminine singular relative pronoun that unquestionably restricts “of whom” to Mary alone. Biblical Interpretation, 214 However, valuable as that may be to the Greek student or master, the literal translation of the text leaves no doubt that Mary gave birth to Jesus. The entire context clarifies that. One need not know Greek to discern that, though it's valuable to have those masterful in the language to substantiate our discernment from the context. This is an example of a student’s knowledge of language being important to him, and the context developed by the writer being more important to every reader. Sample: Blame - stop the game In his book Further Along the Road Less Traveled, Dr. Scott Peck wrote about the blaming game. Where we blame someone else, something else—relatives, parents, governments, schools, GOD...you name it...for our attitudes, behavior, divorces, etc. pp 40-41. The Doctor showed no mercy. He demanded that we stop the blame game. And the only way to stop it was TO STOP IT! In other words, to make a mental decision to assume accountability for our life, however uncomfortable it makes us, however costly to our ego, however difficult to grow into the necessary maturity. Forgiveness is both an act and a process. It’s something we offer on each occasion, finding it easier the more it’s practiced. We eventually find we overlook offenses we previously noted. That in turn finds us being tougher with circumstances and gentler with people. Our entire physical, mental and spiritual life is suddenly healthier than it’s ever been, but nothing compared to what further practice makes it. Until, one day, we feel the freedom forgiveness of others brings by releasing ourselves from the grudges and griefs we had once considered necessary to our ego. |
C's 111 Illustrations with
21 Separate Subjects.
Sample/Christmas traditions This may be hard to believe but: Czar Alexander III of Russia had such powerful shoulders, arms and hands that he could take iron pokers and bend them double—and take horseshoes in his hands and twist them apart.
Sample/Choices our right Offered a commission April 18, 1861 to command Union armies, Robert E. Lee thought, prayed, pondered and REFUSED. His home state of Virginia seceded from the Union that day. His choice brought him deserved fame as a military leader who chose to serve a wicked, doomed cause. General Washington arrived at Cambridge, Massachusetts as a military commander not much older than his army. Obeying Congressional orders, he made decisions by committee, consulting with his officers. When in the minority, he complied with the majority opinion. However, as he matured as commander he relied on his own counsel instead of that offered by his officer corps. He would follow that choice as President, seeking written opinions from Cabinet Secretaries, then making decisions based on his evaluation of their perspectives. Flexner, Life of Washington, Vol. 4, 537 American society has decided not to order our national life by absolutes. In boisterous refusal of God’s word, it pursues, on an accelerated scale, the introduction of diversity which imperils our national unity. The immorality of homosexuality liaisons and marriages defies God’s teaching that marriage continues to be a union of a male and female. And living together as "long as both shall love" offers no alternative to signing a paper that commits to living together till death. America is spiritually and morally weaker by its acquiescence to anti-God behavior. We will NOT be happier the farther along the road of immorality presently traveled. History is a great teacher. Why would we think history suddenly doesn’t tell the truth—and our myopic relativism does? |