Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Steps December 9, 2020 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. ~ Psalm 32:8 NIV ~ "I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you." (Psalm 32:8 NIV) When my sister's husband became ill she had to learn ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Disease, Bubonic Plagues and Destruction... December 7, 2020 If death got the upper hand through one man's wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides? ~ Romans 5:17 MSG ~ Illustrator Cl ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Dancing in the Dark December 6, 2020 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God. ~ Psalm 43:5 NIV ~ The other evening, my daughter hurried into the house from a meeting. She was calling to me, to come quickly and look. Getting up and going out onto the front stoop to see what was happening, I experienc ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET What is Peace? Jesus Peace: Experiencing the Peace of Jesus -- All Year Long! Part 1 December 5, 2020 Peace. It is a word that we so often hear, it is something we long for, yet it so often slips through our fingers. But just what is peace, anyway? According to the dictionary, peace is: - Freedom from disturbance; - Tranquility; a state ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR What Your Eyes Tell You? Or Our Heavenly Father? Who Will YOU Believe? The Sling for God, Part 4 December 4, 2020 Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery. ~ Psalms 2:8-9 NIV ~ The Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, Canada, is an area rich in history, ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Pig Who Saved Christmas December 2, 2020 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. ~ Matthew 5:17-18 NIV ~ ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Choice: The Sling for God, Part 3 November 30, 2020 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night... ~ Psalms 1:1-2 NIV ~ Last Friday, in "The Sling for God, Part 2", we saw the futility ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Facts November 29, 2020 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. ~ Matthew 5:17-18 NIV ~ "Do not thin ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR God Knows: The Sling for God, Part 2 November 27, 2020 Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? ~ Psalms 2:1 NIV ~ On Monday we began a new series based on glimpses of the life of David as viewed through some of the songs he wrote. Today we will look at Ps. 2 for a glimpse of Truth that was evident to David:   "Why do th ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Pushing a Pile of Leaves November 25, 2020 This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Ps. 118:24 NKJV ~ It was the day after Thanksgiving and I was trying to work off ten pounds of turkey, potatoes, and pumpkin pie by raking up the leaves around my daughter's house. She had a matronly maple tree in her front y ...Continue Reading