Illustrations Archives

• Assumptions, Confusion  (October 23, 2007)
  It was the first day of school. As the principal made his rounds, he heard a terrible commotion coming from one of the classrooms. He rushed in and spotted one boy, taller than the others, who seemed to be making the most noise...
• Recognition  (October 18, 2007)
  One day the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo happened to overhear a group of people admiring his Pietą, a statue of Christ on His mother's knees after His death on the cross. One man attributed the work to another sculptor, much to the chagrin of Michelangelo, who took particular pride in the Pietą. Returning to the sculpture after dark that evening, Michelangelo carved his name on it so that no similar mistake would occur in the future...
• Reading, Learning  (October 14, 2007)
  "He who no longer reads should get out of the ministry."
• Gullibility, Cleverness  (October 10, 2007)
  A fisherman from the city was out fishing on a lake in a small boat. He noticed another man in a small boat open his tackle box and take out a mirror. Being curious the man rowed over and asked, "What is the mirror for...
• Proverbs, Humor  (October 7, 2007)
  A first grade school teacher in Virginia presented each child in her classroom the first half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb...
• Tolerance  (October 4, 2007)
  Tolerance is the virtue of people who don?t believe in anything anymore.? (G.K. Chesterton)
• Improvement, Pessimism  (October 1, 2007)
  Pastor Joe shocked the congregation when he announced his resignation from the church and a planned move to another church...
• Vacation, Rest  (September 28, 2007)
  According to the book Work to Live,if you live in the following nations, a certain num­ber of vacation days are mandated by law: Spain: 30 France: 30 Ireland: 28 Japan: 25 Belgium: 24 Norway: 21 United Kingdom: 20 Germany: 18 Canada: 10 United States: 0
• Self-esteem  (September 1, 2007)
  According to a recent ?Ripley?s Believe it or Not? column, a man named Nicael Holt of Australia sold himself for $5,875...
• Promises  (September 1, 2007)
  In the latter days of the Vietnam War, an American Colonel named Earl Woods made a promise...
• Priorities  (September 1, 2007)
  In Reed, North Carolina, you will find the Reed gold mine. It was first excavated in 1799 when Conrad Reed discovered a strange rock on the Reed farm...
• Marriage, Family  (September 1, 2007)
  In a recent survey reported by the media, the Pew Research Center surveyed 2,020 adults concerning their views of marriage and childbearing.
• Communion  (September 1, 2007)
  In the heart of Quebec City is a church called Our Lady of the Victories. It was built to commemorate two victories won by the French over the British in 1690 and 1711...
• Christian Life, Accountability  (September 1, 2007)
  As a young seminarian at Princeton Theological Seminary in supervised clinical work at Trenton State Hospital, a psychiatric institution in New Jersey, each Monday I was given a list of patients whom I was to visit...
• Caring, Salvation  (September 1, 2007)
  Maurice Stokes was voted into the basket­ball Hall of Fame in 2004, 30 years after his death. Stokes? promising career was cut short when he was paralyzed during the final game of the 1958 season...
• Worship  (September 1, 2007)
  An older lady, who had no affinity for con­temporary worship, was complaining about a particular song used in the worship service at her church...
• Parenting  (August 19, 2007)
  Murphy's Laws of Parenting
• Love  (August 19, 2007)
  n the delightful movie Monsters Inc., an entire society of monsters finds their fuel source in the energy created from children's frightened screams.
• Love  (August 19, 2007)
  Fox News reported on July 31, 2002 that a new drink is gaining wide-spread popularity.
• Lord's Supper  (August 19, 2007)
  The Trojan War was over, and Ulysses was on his way home about to leave the enchanted island where Calypso lived.