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| Illustration Title | Illustration Author | |
|---|---|---|
| Folly of Glory | Source unknown | |
| J. S. Bach | Kingdom Conflict, J. Stowell, Victor, 1985, pp. 77ff | |
| Gossip | A. Skevington Wood in Evangelism: Its Theology and Practice | |
| H. G. Wells | Source unknown | |
| How Big is your God? | Source unknown | |
| Quotes | Sources unknown | |
| Scottish Theologian | Source unknown | |
| What God Does | Experiencing God, Nashville, TN | |
| Why God Will Never Get Tenure At Any University | Source unknown | |
| God Knows | Sources unknown | |
| God, Our Deliverer | Sources unknown | |
| Barna Poll | Barna Research Group, 1992 | |
| Faithful Father | Source unknown | |
| For the Poor | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| George Mueller | Source unknown | |
| God Knows | Swindoll, Starting Over, p. 35 | |
| He Careth For You | Bits and Pieces, November, 1989, p. 23. | |
| Jehovah-Jireh | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| Armistace | Christian Theology in Plain Language, p. 81. | |
| Grandfather in Heaven | Source unknown | |
| Motivation | Source unknown | |
| Thirty Years' War | Source unknown | |
| A Remarkable Conception | Hugh Ross, The Fingerprint of God; Promise Publishing Co., 1991, pp. 76-77. | |
| Can't Be Proven by Science | Source unknown | |
| God or Nothing | Malcolm Muggeridge, Christian Medical Society Journal, Winter 78 | |
| God's Creating Hand | HIS Magazine, April, 1983 | |
| Jailed for Praying | Peter Dieson, The Priority of Knowing God, p. 4. | |
| Nazi Death Camp | Elie Wiesel, Night, Bantam, 1982, pp. 75-6, quoted in When God Was Taken Captive, W. Aldrich, Multnomah, 1989, pp. 39-41. | |
| Nistzsche | C. Colson, Kingdoms in Conflict, p. 181 | |
| Progress in Religion | U. S. News & World Report, March 20, 1995, p. 24 | |
| Proving God | Christian Theology in Plain Language, p. 95 | |
| Quotes | Source unknown | |
| The Mice Family | Reprinted from the LONDON OBSERVER | |
| We are Free to Say . . . | G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw, Christianity Today, November 9, 1992, p. 37 | |
| The Existence of God | Our Daily Bread, Sept.-Nov. 1997, page for October 24. | |
| He Never Fails | J. S. Baxter, in Explore The Book | |
| Hudson Taylor | Our Daily Bread, May 16, 1992 | |
| New Every Morning | Source unknown | |
| The Hitchhiker | Why Christians Sin, J. Kirk Johnston, Discovery House, 1992, pp. 39-41 | |
| Thou Remainest | Our Daily Bread, January 20 | |
| Earthly Fathers | Always Daddy's Girl by H. Norman Wright, 1989, Regal Books, pp. 193-195. | |
| Total Confidence | Holy Sweat, Tim Hansel, 1987, Word Books Publisher, pp. 46-47. | |
| Narnia | Our Daily Bread, February 17, 1994 | |
| Teddy Roosevelt | Source unknown | |
| Corrie Ten Boom | Source unknown | |
| Faithful Missionary | Source unknown | |
| Where Was God? | Source unknown | |
| A Gracious God | Source unknown | |
| Just in Time | Today in the Word, MBI, October, 1991, p. 30 | |
| Runaway Daughter | Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, Multnomah Press, 1986, pp. 158-9. | |
| Only God Is Great | Today in the Word, April, 1989, p. 24. | |
| Jehovah Nissi: The Lord my Banner (Ex. 17:15) | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| Say Not, My Soul | The Disciplines of Life, by V. Raymond Edman (Minneapolis: World Wide Publ., 1948), p. 78. | |
| Earthly Fathers | Always Daddy's Girl by H. Norman Wright, 1989, Regal Books, pp. 193-195 | |
| The Image of God | Your Father Loves You by James Packer, (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986), page for February 23. | |
| Repentance | Your Father Loves You by James Packer, (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986), page for January 4. | |
| The Wind | Source unknown | |
| A Picture of God | Em Griffin, The Mindchangers, Tyndale House, 1976, p. 16. | |
| Pornography | By Perucci Ferraiuolo, Christianity Today, March 7, 1994, p. 57. | |
| C. H. Spurgeon | Source unknown | |
| Dog Loves You | Richard A. Vurva, Merrillville, Indiana | |
| Rosemary's Rag Doll | Source unknown | |
| New Every Morning | Source unknown | |
| God's Names | Charts of Christian Theology and Doctrine, H. Wayne House, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publ. House, 1992), pp. 51-52. | |
| I AM | Helen Mallicoat, quoted in Holy Sweat, Tim Hansel, 1987, Word Books Publisher, p. 136 | |
| Augustine | Source unknown | |
| God Never . . . | Source unknown | |
| They Say . . . | Lois Cheney, God Is No Fool, pp. 55-6 | |
| Watermelon | Source unknown | |
| Where Is God? | Buff Spies, in 11-91, Reader's Digest | |
| Guarded on All Sides | Source unknown | |
| Pascal | Blaise Pascal, in Pensees | |
| What God Can't Do | Today in the Word, April, 1989, p. 43 | |
| Not Unprayerful but Unskilled | Holy Sweat, Tim Hansel, 1987, Word Books Publisher, p. 63 | |
| Well Pleased | Source unknown | |
| Charles Hodge | Source unknown | |
| Nazi Death Camp Prisoner | Elie Wiesel, Night, Bantam, 1982, pp. 75-6, quoted in When God Was Taken Captive, W. Aldrich, Multnomah, 1989, pp. 39-41. | |
| Promises Don't Break by Leaning on them | Source unknown | |
| Twelve Promises | Our Daily Bread, January 1, 1985 | |
| Missionary John Paton | Today in the Word, MBI, October, 1991, p. 18. | |
| Abraham Lincoln | Martin Luther in Day by Day We Magnify Thee | |
| Bombing Run Over Germany | Source unknown | |
| Heroes | Kinlaw, Christianity Today, January 15, 1990, p. 13. | |
| Ira Sankey (Moody's Song Leader) | K Hughes, Liberating Ministry From The Success Syndrome, Tyndale, 1988, p. 69. | |
| Light Shining Out of Darkness | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| The Mud Bath | Slightly altered from Finding Men for Christ by George Dempster, (London: Hodder & Stroughton, 1935). quoted in Prodigals and Those Who Love Them, Ruth Bell Graham, 1991, Focus on the Family Publishing, pp. 85-94 | |
| For the Poor | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| Lucy the Dog | John Underhill | |
| The Parable of Tomorrow | Daily Bread, Tuesday, June 18. | |
| Deadly Forest Fire | Today in the Word, March 14, 1995 | |
| Flight 191 | Quoted by Charles Swindoll, Growing Strong, p. 268 | |
| Icebergs | Source unknown | |
| It Happened on the Brooklyn Subway | Paul Deutschman, Great Stories Remembered, edited and compiled by Joe L. Wheeler, Focus on the Family Publishers, December 1996. | |
| Master's Hand | Source unknown | |
| Molding a Man | Source unknown | |
| Priestly Intercession | L. S. Chafer, True Evangelism, pp. 90-1 | |
| The Mud Bath | Slightly altered from Finding Men for Christ by George Dempster, (London: Hodder & Stroughton, 1935). quoted in Prodigals and Those Who Love Them, Ruth Bell Graham, 1991, Focus on the Family Publishing, pp. 85-94 | |
| Two Ropes | John Morren, Lake City, Michigan | |
| World War II Prisoners | Source unknown | |
| Quotes | Sources unknown | |
| In Whom Do You Trust | Ladies Home Journal, 1981 | |
| Light Shining Out of Darkness | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York. | |
| John Wesley | Our Daily Bread, Sept.-Nov. 1997, page for November 6 | |
| Add Nothing to Scripture | From the Westminster Confession of Faith | |
| Continue Working | George Sweeting, Moody Monthly, May 1988, p. 95 | |
| Guidance | Your Father Loves You by James Packer, (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986), page for October 13 | |
| Jessica Hawn | Source unknown | |
| Misuse of Scripture | Reader's Digest, March, 1993, p. 71. | |
| Pastoral Call | Source unknown | |
| Short Prayer | Source unknown | |
| Take Another Look at Guidance | Bob Mumford, Take Another Look at Guidance. | |
| To Do Thy Will | Source unknown | |
| Wesley's Marriage | Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching and Preachers, W. Wiersbe, Moody Press, 1984, p. 246 | |
| Let Me Be a Woman | Elizabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman | |
| Earthquake | By Perucci Ferraiuolo, Christianity Today, March 7, 1994, p. 57. | |
| Wrath | Source unknown | |
| Company Rules | Source unknown | |
| The Rescue | Source unknown | |
| The Kingdom of God | Source unknown | |
| Chapter 11 | Reader's Digest, March, 1993, pp. 71 | |
| Guide | Elizabeth Elliot, A Slow and Certain Light | |
| He Leads Me | Source unknown | |
| Know the Way | Source unknown | |
| Old Sailor | Source unknown | |
| Sailboat | Source unknown | |
| Spirit and Word Combined | George Mueller | |
| Too Busy for Religion | Morning Glory, July 13, 1993 | |
| A Definition | ||
| Cling to Both Ropes | John Morren, Lake City, Michigan, quoted in Leadership, 1986, p. 38 | |
| Five Smooth Stones | Our Daily Bread | |
| God Has the Absolute Right to Work His Will | The Shaw Pocket Bible Handbook, Walter A. Elwell, Editor, (Harold Shaw Publ., Wheaton , IL; 1984), p. 359 | |
| God's Sovereignty | C. H. Spurgeon | |
| God's Word Does Not Return Void | Scocaster, April 23, 1995, p. 7 | |
| Hang On to Both Ropes | John Morren, Lake City, Michigan | |
| He Did Not Look Back | Today in the Word, March 14, 1995 | |
| His Father Accepted the Lord | Footprints, Howard & Jeanne Hendricks, Multnomah Press, 1981, pp. 16-19 | |
| If You Ask Anything in My Name I Will Do It | L. S. Chafer, True Evangelism, pp. 90-1 | |
| Quote | ||
| God's Wrath | The Shaw Pocket Bible Handbook, Walter A. Elwell, Editor, (Harold Shaw Publ., Wheaton , IL; 1984), p. 361 | |
| He Must Punish Sin | Source unknown | |
| The Word "Wrath" | Albert Barnes |
