Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Jeremiah 45:2,5 - Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: "Do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh," says the Lord. "But I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go."  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Try, Try Again I remember when ballpoint pens first appeared in the late 'forties. Mo ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Ephesians 5:18-20)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Does a Praise and Worship Service Make any Impact in Heaven? Music from the Heart When my oldest ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Deut 30:19 "Now choose life . . ."   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Wrestled -- Giving Up, In, and Over Nebuchadnezzar, in the fourth year of King Jehoiakim's reign, seized Judah, the Southern Kingdom. The Babylonian king made a vassal type covenant with Judah so that Israel could stay in the land peacefully under their new foreign regime. It was Judah's new safe haven... Jehoiakim's father, Josiah ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness." (1 Thess 5:5)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Milk Carton Child I can't seem to remember much about my childhood. For some reason, none of my memories go back farther than when I was six. Anything before that is just a blur, as if my memory had been erased by some great technological device ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "We love because He first loved us." 1 John 4:19  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Perspective A teacher friend of mine told me about Michael, a boy whose father had left before he was born, whose mother had died of cancer. Whenever Michael talked about his mom, he painted a picture of love and Christian care. Presently, he was with his aunt and uncle, a couple who didn't understand or especially lik ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground." (Joshua 3:17)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Standing on Dry Ground. Facing unimaginable Odds Series, part 11 It's so hard to lose face in front of people! Even more so if they are per ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "'Go,' he told him, 'wash in the Pool of Siloam' (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing." (John 9:7)   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Bumps In The Dark I watched as teenagers donned the glasses and attempted to walk. None were successful. They bumped into chairs, bruised shins and some almost fell. They couldn't walk because they were drunk-or at least felt they ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 29:6)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Rest Amidst Stress. Restful Repose, Part 2 There is no rest when the wicked roam the land, and in the 9th century, the Vikings were doing a fantastic job of terrorizing the Frankish empire. It was, in fact, too easy. They would take their boats and raid the Frankish coast, then the ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "She will bear a Son, and you shall call His Name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us A Baby's Gift Think back. Can you remember when your school classmates were choosing sides for a game?Were you ever picked last? Were you ever consistently the last one who was selected? From experience I can tell you it's a terrible thing to be cons ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work." (Genesis 2:2)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Day Worries were Born. Restful Repose, Introduction The Vikings of Scandinavia achieved world-renown in the 8th century. They were skilled navigators who didn't think twice about leaving their homes for faraway destinations, and it was ...Continue Reading