/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: "If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." (1 Cor 13:2) The Key to Moving Mountains. Awake Series, Part 23 She started as a simple children minister, this friend of mine. Her heart was set on making a difference in their young lives. She was good at it, especially since she invested so much time in children and believed earnestly that God would move mountains like never before. Open to God's Holy Spi ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: Isa 40:31 Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Ready to Fly Something new showed up on my Dad's front porch this Spring: a nest. A robin decided that the top of a corner post just under the metal roof would be the perfect place to put her new home. Slowly she started to build it stick by stick. My Dad noticed what she was ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death; my enemy will say, 'I have overcome him,' and my foes will rejoice when I fall." (Ps 13:1-4) Am I Even Loveable? Rivers of Faith, Part 18 ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: Phil 2:5 "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus" A Young Spirit It was my daughter's 21st birthday. Dinner was finished and cake and ice cream were about to be served. As I looked out on my three grown children I was amazed at how quickly the years had gone by. My youngest was now 18 years old. My daughter was a college graduate. My oldest boy was 23 and getting older every minute. Just thinking about it I could fe ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13) When Things Don't Go Our Way: Awake Series, Part 22 That morning of December 6, 1917, Vincent Coleman said good-bye to his lovely wife, Frances, and their four children, and went to work at the Richmond railway station in Halifax Nova Scotia. His workplace was a small wooden station amidst the Richmond rail yards, in close proximity of t ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: 2 Samuel 22:31 "As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him." (NKJV) Trusting God On The Curves My grandfather was swearing while clutching the door and probably wondering why he had let me do what he had. My cousin surely contemplated the same. The terrific thing about a grandfather with a farm that had a number of dirt roads coursing through it was the periodic privilege of ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse:  "No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me." (John 15:4) Hanging by a Thread. Rivers of Faith, Part 17: Faith Tumbler - Legalism vs. Indulging in Sin. At Point Pelee, Ontario, we discovered a strange site near an abandoned cemetery: a broken dead tree branch, devoid of life, was hanging between two trees. At one end, a vine had intertwined itself ar ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator / Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: Hebrews 13:16 "Make sure you don't take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship -- a different kind of "sacrifice" -- that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets." (MSG) Hey! You Can't Do That! At a grocery store in our town, the shopping carts are locked together, but inse ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator / Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13) How Can I Learn to Love Others like Jesus does? When Lives are At Stake Point Pelee's Lifesaving station in Ontario, Canada was established in 1901 as a result of the numerous lives and vessels lost to this peninsula. With its many shoals and reefs, it is most certainly a sailor's nightmare. On November 22, 1906, th ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator / Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." Romans 8:18 Tribulation Have you ever had any tribulation? That may seem like a silly question. After all, what sane human being can say he or she hasn't had to carry some kind of life's burden? This really takes me to a little bit of word explanation: tribulation. In ancient Rome, grain was sepa ...Continue Reading