Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: The God-loyal are always giving what they do have." (Proverbs 21:26b MSG)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us A Bigger Heart A beautiful, young girl is smiling at me from a picture frame on my desk as I write this. She is my sponsor child from the Philippines and even though I have never met her in person she has found a special place in my heart. It doesn't cost me much to help her, about a dollar a day. Y ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging." (Psalm 46:1-3 NIV)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Saved by the Rock "Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "They shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but shall not find it." (Amos 8:12)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Running To And Fro I spent a total of over eight months living in a camp in the desert of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. This included the Christmas season and the change of the year from 1965 to 1966. There ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Don't be flip with the sacred. Banter and silliness give no honor to God. Don't reduce holy mysteries to slogans. In trying to be relevant, you're only being cute and inviting sacrilege." (Matthew 7:6 MSG)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us We are Your Witness! Majestic Mountain View, Part 37 Jesus hits the point when He makes the above statement in His famous Sermon on the Mount: Our focus should al ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly." (Proverbs 14:29 NASB)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us A Powerful Lesson My father taught me a powerful lesson I'll never forget.His own father, my grandfather, was a mining engineer and his family lived in the Philippines prior to World War II. After Japan invaded the Philippines in 1941, foreigners were ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish." (John 1:14 MSG)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Real Christmas Day. Christmas Jubilation, Part 5 This is quite amazing. Jesus, the Son of God entered our world. He showed compassion, he demons ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests." (Luke 2:14)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Christmas In August I was manning a booth at the Western Fair in London, Ontario, Canada, one August, when a man I'll call Hans appeared from out of the crowd and very quickly engaged me in his story. During the Second World War, Hans, at barely seventeen, had been conscrip ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "But they paid no attention and went off--one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them." (Matthew 22:6)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Celebrating the Real Reason. Christmas Jubilation, Part 4 Every family I know celebrates Christmas with a sumptuous meal-and most end up overeating!In a parable from Jesus, He tells us about a beautiful w ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21 NLT)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Christmas on the River God sometimes shows up in the strangest ways. One Christmas week in 1980, He did just that. It was a Christmas my family never forgot. For a number of years, Dad struggled with God's call to be a full-time evangelist. After ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, 'Come! Gather for the great banquet of God.'" (Revelation 19:17)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Banquet from on High. Christmas Jubilation, Part 3 "I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: 'Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They're his peo ...Continue Reading