Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work." (2 Cor 9:8)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us At the Mercy of a Snow-Covered Driveway The winter of 2007 was a mild one; or so it seemed. By mid-February, I hadn't yet had the need to use my snow blower even once. But that's when ol' man winter finally ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry." (2 Timothy 4:5)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us How Does the Story End? How far would you go? What would you be willing to do to save somebody's life?In 1989 over 30,000 people died in an earthquake, which hit Armenia. One father raced to his boy's school and found it had been leveled. Un ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.'" (Rev 3:17a)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us How Can we Become Complacent? The Outcast. Part B. A Study Through the 7 Churches of RevelationWhile in Christchurch, New Zealand, we discovered a slimy pond, covered with algae and duck-weed, and not attractive at all by human terms. To us it looked more like a mud pool than an ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth." (Heb 11:13)   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Just Passing Through The story is told of an American tourist who visited the 19th century Polish rabbi, Hofetz Chaim. Astonished to see t ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," (1 Peter 1:3)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Creatures of Hope It is almost Groundhog day as I write this. That is the day when all of America watches as two men in top hats and suits from Victorian England reach into t ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not without effect." (1 Corinthians 15:10)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us It is Amazing On Sunday mornings, I get to experience one of the best views in church from the pulpit. I see the entire worshiping congregation and, as I scan the people in the pews, I think about their struggles and stories and of how the amazing grace of ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God." (Luke 6:20)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Joy on the Cross. Kingdom of Power, Part 20 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." (Mark 10:21b, NIV2) What does this truly mean? Do we have to be poor to be part of the Kingdom of God? But then, we could a ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you." (I Peter 5:7).  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us When Anxiety Comes I watched anxiety darken her face. Where would the money come from? Our family budget has taken a severe hit over the last five years. Recently, we struggled through a summer without the income my wife was receiving from keeping an afterschool child. As the start of ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "I am the way and the truth and the life." (John 14:6)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Dusk Dilemma. Alive Series, 11 My oldest son and I had decided to go on a camping trip to Algonquin Provincial Park in Northern Ontario, Canada. After the long drive and the time it took us to set up camp, we only had two hours before dusk; but this didn't stop us from going on an adventure in the woods. We choo ...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 By my Dad's Bedside It is hard to write when your heart is breaking, but something deep inside me needs to say this right now. At this moment I am sitting in a chair by my Dad's bedside in the nursing home where he has lived for the past few months. His breathing is s ...Continue Reading