Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him." (Col 2:9, MSG)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us A Challenge Beyond Bounds. Little Light of Mine, Part 2 Imagine a world without God, how empty it would be. Chaos would become the nor ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation." (Ps 13:5)   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us A Thousand Pieces I'm upside down and inside out. I'm lost and found. I'm broken into a thousand pieces and still I am together.I remember the great book by pastor David Wilkerson, "The Cross and the Switchblade." There was one part in that true story that has stayed with ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead." (Acts 4:2)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Truly Forgiven! Facing Unimaginable Odds, Part 23b As we have seen in our last devotional, Peter and John, under the influence of God's Holy Spirit, had healed a man crippled since birth. It caused a lot of commotion, as people al ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Sports Devotion: Glory to God The legendary Scottish athlete and missionary, Eric Liddell (on whom the movie 'Chariots of Fire' is based) was once asked about how he mixed his faith with his sprinting. He cheerfully replied, "God made me fast. And when I ru ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." (Acts 3:6)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Truly Alive! Facing Unimaginable Odds, Part 23a Based on Acts 3:1-4:31Peter and John were going up to the temple. Once there they encountered a "man crippled from birth" and his plea was for some money, so that he could survive. He never re ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Then Moses cried out to the Lord, 'What should I do with these people? They are ready to stone me!'" (Exodus 17:4)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Decisions, Decisions I face them every day. Some I give little thought to, but others I make only after great deliberation. My life has been filled with decisions. Enough to fill a book. Many of them minor, but quite a few major. I decided to get out ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you." (John 14:17)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us All for Nothing. Alive Series, Part 10 "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth." (John 16:13, NIV2)Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to be in control of the wh ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "And he said to me, 'These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.'" (Revelation 7:14b)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us By His Blood PLEASE NOTE: Today's devotion is filled with powerful images. Adults, please read it over before you share it with anyone who is young. Thank you. Pastor Ken Klaus. Al-Shabaab is the ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world." (John 1:9)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us At Wit's End. Little Light of Mine, Intro "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." (John 1:5, NIV2)Last winter (2014) was quite rough to most North Americans. Bitter cold, like we hadn't had in a very long time, with snow that fell seemingly ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Even if everyone else abandons you, I never will...Even if I have to die with you..." (Matthew 26:33,35)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Right Here Right Now Though skeptical of his teenage son's new found determination to build bulging muscles, one father followed his teenager to the store's weight-lifting department, where they admired a set of weights. "Please, Dad," pleaded the teen ...Continue Reading