Today’s Best Illustrations

Volume 5

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Contents

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ACCEPTED TIME

Dealt a Bad Hand

ACCOUNTABILITY

What Are Friends For?

An Accountability Group Experience

Accountability from Spouse

ADULTERY

The Price of Adultery

Getting out of an Affair

ADVERSITY

Livingstone’s Childhood

Comfort Weakens Religion

Viewing from the Right Angle

Power of Adversity

AFFLICTIONS

The Fruit of Persecution

Tender Times, Hard Times

Don’t Shoot!

Inner Strength

Hardships Help

Oaks in the Storm

Difficulties Bring Greatness

Glorious Triumph

Necessity of Trials

Trials Shape Our Character

Lesson from Trials

Affliction Shapes

Growing Through Trials

AGRICULTURE

Good Enough to Eat

AMBITION

The Price of Winning

Never Satisfied QB

What’s Important These Days

AMUSEMENTS

Humor: Punkin ‘Chunkin’

Humor: With an “H”

Games in Jesus’ Time

ANGELS

Annual Visitation

ANGER

Trivial Complaints

The Anger Barrier

Danger!

Think Clearly

Painful Anger

Count Down

Rage, a Bad Way to Fly

Bitterness Kills

Anything but “Angry”

A Heart Full of Anger

Honeymoon’s Over

Replayed Anger

Anger Kills

ANIMALS

Humor: Who’s at the Zoo?

Humor: Mixed-up Breed

Humor: Preposterously Pampered Pets

No Dogs Allowed

ANXIETY

The Ball Glove Story

APOSTLES

Judas the Scariest

ARROGANCE

My Spirit Was Showing

I’m Better

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Art and Religion

ATHEISM

Lost

ATONEMENT

The Father Paid for Sin

God’s Son Punished for Our Sin

ATTITUDES OF THE CHRISTIAN

Shake It Off and Step Up

Humor: Not Too Permanent

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BACKSLIDING

Everyone Can Fall

BAPTISM

Humor: Unexpected Bath

Humor: Baptism

Baptism, Christ’s Command

Going Under

No Baptism without Floaties

BEAUTY

Beauty’s True Source

Life Goals

The Real Things in Life

An Art Lesson

Wonder at God’s Creation

BENEVOLENCE

Serving the Poor

BIBLE

Statistic: That’s the Book for Me!

Humor: 67 Books of the Bible?

Dead Sea Squirrels

Life Transforming Word

Superiority of the Bible

Worth of Bible Knowledge

Passing the Word to Future Generations

Life or Death Instructions

Twisting the Word of God

Mary Exemplifies Openness to Word

Humor: An Old New Testament?

Holy Words Like Honey

Word for the Living

God’s Word Is Life

What One “Survivor” Couldn’t Live Without

Obedient Listening

Ignorance and Vain Speech

When God Finds Us

Biblical Ethics Transform Rowdies

Humor: Thy Murray Be Done

Humor: Those Evil Sports

Statistic: Bible Reading and Sunday School

Bible Has Authority and Relevance

I Want My NIV

BIGOTRY

Still Slaves

People, not Colors

Inner Qualities Count

“Them” Black People

“White” Perspective on Reconciliation?

BIRTHDAYS

Humor: 29 Forever

Statistics: Births and Deaths

BITTERNESS

Bitterness Destroys Churches

BLESSINGS

All that God created

New Beginnings

BLINDNESS

Don’t Trust the Tone Deaf

BLOOD

The Power of Blood

BODY

Being God’s Dwelling

Doing It for Scotty

BOLDNESS

Ask

BONDAGE

Lincoln at the Slave Block

BOOKS

The Age of Papyrus Rolls

BROTHERHOOD OF MAN

We’re All Human

BROTHERLY LOVE

Humor: WWJD?

A Terrorist Crosses the Line

BURDENS...