Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." (Matt 6:10)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Burn That Never Hurt. Do we Truly Believe? Part 3 We, as believers, do pray, just as the disciples did. However, do we truly know how to pray? Are we talking with our Father as our closest friend, or are we praying like commercials, repeating day in and day out our broken prayer lis ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "For the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them." Hebrews 9:9   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Cleansing the Conscience He was the sweetest man in the world when she married him, but that would soon change. Peter and Catrina were high school sweethearts who planned their wedding for the summer after their graduation. Nine month ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." (2 Peter 1:3 NIV)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Believing in the Power. Where is the Plug? On July 1 Canadians celebrate Canada Day - the day of the adoption of the British North America Act. This act declared that Canada would become an independent ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1Cor 13:13)   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Most Exciting Adventure of All One year when I was in college my friend and I decided to skip the crowds going to the beaches for Spring break and instead go skiing at a local resort. It sounded like an exciting adventure to both of us. There was only one flaw in ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead." (Rom 7:8, NIV2)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Problematic Flush Toilets. Radical Grace from the Book of Romans (7:7-8) "What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the la ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash." (2 Kings 14:3)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Little Frankie When I was a boy growing up we lived across a river from the main road next to a set of rail road tracks. The only way to our house was across an old, wooden swinging bridge. We only had two n ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." (Gal 5:1)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Burdens of Life. Alive Series, 24 Too often believers forget that we were not created to be slaves, but sons and daughters of the Most High. In Christ we are truly set free, and we are only burdened when we allow ourselves ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." (1John 4:4)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us There's Something Bigger A number of years ago, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks did a popular series of comedy sketches called the "2000-Year-Old Man" which developed into several hilarious albums. The premise has Car ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You've lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage." (Matt 5:13, MSG)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Are You Nuts? Absolutely! Majestic Mountain View, part 11 A few weeks ago someone asked me what kind of food I woul ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "We are confident that you are meant for better things, things that come with salvation." Hebrews 6:9  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Gift of Pick-Me-Up Our friendship is ten years old. I met him when things in my life had taken a turn south. He was my middle brother's pastor and had been a pastor to my parents. In spite of how bleak I imagined my future to be, he continued to tell me, "M ...Continue Reading