Illustrations Archives

• Ethics  (August 18, 2007)
  Have you heard of the "Ten Commandments Project?" It encourages young people 16 and younger to memorize the Ten Commandments by paying them ten dollars for the feat.
• Emcumbrances  (August 18, 2007)
  In the Alleghenies Mountains a hunter mistakenly shot a large eagle.
• Easter  (August 18, 2007)
  The cartoon This Funny World once showed a couple leaving church. The wife said to her husband, "I'll tell you why it's always the same old sermon. The only time you come is on Easter Sunday, that's why!"
• Dreams  (August 18, 2007)
  The professor challenged his students to get to know someone they didn't already know. One of the football players felt a gentle touch on his shoulder and as he turned found a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at him.
• Discernment  (August 18, 2007)
  A man put this sign in front of his auto repair shop: "Beware of bargains in life rafts, brain surgery, parachutes, and auto repairs."
• Dependence on God  (August 18, 2007)
  Dwight L. Moody told this story: "A minister was one day moving his library upstairs. As he was going up with a load of books, his little boy came in, and was very anxious to help his father.
• Culture  (August 18, 2007)
  A recent issue of US News & World Report featured a story entitled "Faith in America: In troubled times, how Americans' views of religion are changing."
• Cross  (August 18, 2007)
  So many stories have come out of the terrorist attack of September 11. One of the most poignant, carried by the Associated Press, was the discovery by rescue workers in the rubble of the World Trade Center of a large perfectly shaped cross, twenty feet tall.
• Cross  (August 18, 2007)
  The sculptures of Michelangelo thrill art lovers all over the world.
• Cross  (August 18, 2007)
  John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, always kept a cross in his pocket. He kept it there to remind himself that there is something more important in life than basketball!
• Cross  (August 18, 2007)
  The largest cross in the world is located on Bald Knob mountain in southern Illinois. It towers 111 feet high and can be seen for miles in every direction.
• Cross  (August 18, 2007)
  For the Christian, the cross is both a symbol of horror and hope. Our Lord Jesus died an excruciatingly painful and shameful death on the cross - drinking empty the cup of God's wrath.
• Cross  (August 18, 2007)
  A church in Boca Raton Florida has cut a deal to put a 99-foot phone tower inside the cross of their building.
• Cross  (August 18, 2007)
  There is a story about a brother in a monastery who was assigned to preach.
• Creativity  (August 18, 2007)
  In Tony Cochran's Agnes the title character, a precocious grade school girl, is talking to a friend and says, "I think I have discovered the source of all my problems.
• Courage  (August 18, 2007)
  Newspapers recently carried the story of a man named Larry Klein. One might say that Larry is disabled, but one crook is not so sure.
• Courage  (August 18, 2007)
  In Darwin, Australia, a 19-year old Australian man was loading wild geese into his boat when a 10-foot crocodile grabbed him and took him into the water.
• Conversion  (August 18, 2007)
  The world was shocked when popular NBC newsman, David Bloom, died while covering the Iraq war.
• Conversion  (August 18, 2007)
  Blaise Pascal was a theologian, mathematician, scientist and philosopher. At the time of his death, those who cared for him found a parchment sewn into his clothing.
• Conversion  (August 18, 2007)
  Newspapers recently carried the story of Malibu, a yellow Labrador, who disappeared from her owners' yard in Gloversville, N.Y., in 2000. She was only 9 months old.