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| Illustration Title | Illustration Author | |
|---|---|---|
| Public Confession | Christ's Call To Discipleship, J. M. Boice, Moody, 1986, pp. 122-23 | |
| Self-Acquaintance | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| A Morning Prayer | Source unknown | |
| A Song in the Night | Our Daily Bread, May 7, 1992 | |
| A Test of Faith | Our Daily Bread, Monday, March 26. | |
| Abraham Lincoln | Today in the Word, MBI, December, 1989, p. 20 | |
| Alan Redpath | Our Daily Bread, Saturday, June 20. | |
| Antarctic Trek | The Heart of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton. | |
| Augustine | Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine | |
| Black Tuesday | Source unknown | |
| C. H. Spurgeon | Source unknown | |
| Computers and Depression | Resource, Mar/Apr, 1990 | |
| Dear Abby | Source unknown | |
| Denial | ||
| Deny, Christ | ||
| Dependability | ||
| Dependence | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| Dependence, on God | ||
| Depravity | ||
| Depression | ||
| Desire | ||
| Despair | ||
| Desperate Thirst | From an account of the British liberation of Palestine by Major V. Gilbert in The Last Crusade, quoted in Christ's Call To Discipleship, J.M. Boice, Moody, 1986, p. 143 | |
| Dysfunctional | Our Daily Bread, April 19, 1995 | |
| Good Pig:Bad Boy | From Live and Learn and Pass it On, Jackson Brown, Jr. (age 77). | |
| Grand Experiment | Imprimis, April 1997, Volume 26, Number 4, Hillsdale College, MI, pp. 1-2 | |
| H. G. Wells | Today in the Word, November, 1996, p. 24 | |
| Half-Hearted Creatures | The Agony of Deceit by Michael Horton, Editor1990, Moody Press, p. 49 | |
| How to Tell When It's Going to be a Rotten Day | Author unknown | |
| J. S. Bach | Source unknown | |
| Jehovah Our Righteousness Jer. 23:6 | Olney Hymns, by William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| Man:The Product of Causes | Bertrand Russell, quoted in Christian Apologetics in a World Community, W. Dyrness, IVP, 1983, p. 92. | |
| Man's Existence | Source unknown | |
| Metaphysical Evangelists | The Agony of Deceit by Michael Horton, Editor, 1990, Moody Press, pp.132-133 | |
| Need of Humanity | C. S. Lewis, quoted in Against the Night, Charles Colson, p. 139 | |
| One Day at a Time | Source unknown | |
| Pollution | Today in the Word, September, 1989, p. 12 | |
| Polycarp | Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching & Preachers, W. Wiersbe, p. 214 | |
| Popular Religion | Quoted in The Berean Call, September 1993, New Man, July/August 1994, p. 10. | |
| Pretend it Didn't Happen | Source unknown | |
| Property Laws of a Toddler | Deb Lawrence, Missionary to the Philippines with SEND International, quoted in Prokope, November/December, 1992, p. 3. | |
| Purity | Source unknown | |
| Quote | George Orwell, Dickens, Dali and Others | |
| Quotes | Source unknown | |
| Rap Session | Evangelism, A Biblical Approach, M. Cocoris, Moody, 1984, p. 163. | |
| Sign Seen in a Textile Mill | Source unknown | |
| Socrates | M. Littleton in Moody Monthly, June, 1989, p. 29 | |
| Statistics | National and International Religion Report, Jan 1, 1992 | |
| The Clown | Source unknown | |
| Today's Women | Dr. Gerald Klerwan, in Homemade, Dec. 1986 | |
| Unexpected Sacrifices | Source unknown | |
| Ways to Love Your Depressed Friend | Discipleship Journal, October, 1996, quoted in Lifeline, Summer, 1997 | |
| Weak Hands | Lady Culross to John Livingston of the Covenanters, quoted in Prodigals and Those Who Love Them, Ruth Bell Graham, 1991, Focus on the Family Publishing, p. 23 | |
| Blanket Immunity? | Neil Anderson, The Bondage Breaker, p. 181 | |
| Expulsion of demons | The New Unger's Bible Handbook, Merrill F. Unger, Revised by Gary N. Larson, Moody Press, Chicago, 1984, p.389 | |
| Greek Words | Hierarchical structure of Satan's forces, Satan is No Myth, J.O. Sanders, Moody, 1975, p. 58ff | |
| Possession and Opposition | Touch the World Through Prayer, W. Duewel, OMS, p.123 | |
| True story | Common Ground, Vol. 10 No. 7 | |
| Unclean Spirits | Source unknown | |
| What Demons Can Do | Neil Anderson, The Bondage Breaker, p. 173 | |
| Drunk Driver | Dan Rodricks in Baltimore Sunday Sun Magazine, quoted in Reader's Digest, October 1982 | |
| The Juggler | Contributed by Natalie Kaplowitz, Reader's Digest, May, 1994, p. 67 | |
| Prisoner of His Appetite | Source unknown | |
| Gambler's Fallacy | Gambler's Anonymous | |
| Good Baptists Don't Gamble | J. E. Bedenbaugh | |
| Incurable Optimists | Bits & Pieces, May 26, 1994, p. 9 | |
| Lottery Tickets | Gaming & Wagering Business, reported in American Demographics, 2/89 | |
| Quotes | Sources unknown | |
| All Have Sinned | Evangelism, A Biblical Approach, M. Cocoris, Moody, 1984, p. 163 | |
| Armed Robbery | Tom Blair in San Diego Union, quoted in Reader's Digest | |
| Blackout | Charles Colson | |
| Don't Feel Guilty | Unfinished Business, Charles Sell, Multnomah, 1989, p. 223 | |
| Free Again! | Source unknown | |
| Guilt Motivation | Source unknown | |
| Guilty Conscience | Reader's Digest, February, 1992, p. 106 | |
| Hiding | Today in the Word, October 17, 1993 | |
| Leopold and Loeb | Today in the Word, October 3, 1992 | |
| Quote | Source unknown | |
| Sin Enslaves and Forgiveness Frees | Richard Hoefler, Will Daylight Come? | |
| Younger Child | "A Houseful of Love and Laughter", from Leading with my Chin, by Jay Leno, (NY, Harpercollins Publ., Inc., 1996), quoted in Reader's Digest, pp. 13-14. | |
| Amputees | Source unknown | |
| Effects of Sin | Heaven and Home Hour Radio Bulletin | |
| You Owe an Apology to God | Larry Brook, The Quiet Hour, September-November, 1997, p. 54 | |
| Special Days | Dr. George Sweeting, in Special Sermons For Special Days | |
| Any Time We Break The Law Of God We Sin | Tabletalk, June 9, 1990 | |
| Areas of Greatest Challenge | Discipleship Journal, 11-12/92 | |
| Augustine's Stages with Sin | Source unknown | |
| Black Tuesday | Source unknown | |
| Blacksmith Made a Chain | Our Daily Bread, December 28, 1996 | |
| Brought Down By a Tiny Insect | Today in the Word, October 1997, p. 28 | |
| Cocaine and Heroin | Daniel Hans | |
| Crime and Human Nature | Christianity Today, August 16, 1993, p. 30 | |
| Defining Deviancy Down | Source unknown | |
| Do You Feel the Weight of Your Sins? | From a sermon preached by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (ca. 1508), quoted in Christianity Today | |
| Drugs | Source unknown | |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Guidelines | Source unknown | |
| Evil Is Like a Wild Wolf | Our Daily Bread, July 23 | |
| Hating Sin in Our Lives | C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity | |
| Hatred of Sin | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| Niagara Falls and the Birds | Today in the Word, October, 1990, p. 14 | |
| Nibbling Their Way to Lostness | Mike Yaconelli,The Wittenburg Door | |
| No Tresspassing! | No Trespassing sign seen in west Texas, with rancher's name signed in blood red paint at bottom | |
| Our Guilt | Charles Hodge | |
| Our Sinful Nature Always Has the Potential to Erupt | Stephen Schertzinger, Seattle, Washington, quoted in Leadership, Summer Quarter, p. 47 | |
| Parable of Snake and Mouse | Source unknown | |
| Parable of the Chain | Moody's Anecdotes, pp. 48-49 | |
| Poisonous Mushrooms | Family Survival in the American Jungle, Steve Farrar, 1991, Multnomah Press, pp. 17-18 | |
| Prevention vs. Intervention | The Stress Myth, p. 11 | |
| Put In Prison He Built | Today in the Word, July 12, 1993 | |
| Quotes | ||
| Silt Destroyed the City | Our Daily Bread, September 24, 1998 | |
| Sin | Source unknown | |
| Sin | John Henry Jowett in The Grace Awakening, C. Swindoll, Word, 1990, pp. 140-41 | |
| Sin Comes When. . . | Augustine in The Confessions of St. Augustine (Christian Classics in Modern English), Reflections, November 23, 1992, p. 41 | |
| Sin Is Like an Alcoholic With a Drink | John Fischer in Contemporary Christian Music, September, 1987 | |
| Thirty-one New Testament Descriptions of Sinful Mankind | J. L. Meredith, Meredith's Big Book of Bible Lists, (Inspirational Press, NY; 1980), pp. 457-458 | |
| Time-Lapse Photography | Source unknown | |
| Washing Your Hand | Prokope,' Vol. 1, No. 4, October-December, 1997, p. 4 | |
| We Are Always Sinners | Charles Hodge | |
| We Never See Sin Aright Until We See It As Against God | Quoted in The Pursuit of Holiness, J. Bridges, p. 20, cf. |
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| Weeds | Spokesman Review, July 27, 1989, p. A9 | |
| What Is Sin? | Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, A Theological ABC, (Harper, San Francisco, A Division of Harper Collins Publishers, 1973), pp. 88-89 | |
| What Is Sin? | The Shaw Pocket Bible Handbook, Walter A. Elwell, Editor, (Harold Shaw Publ., Wheaton , IL; 1984), p. 359 | |
| What is Sin? | Moody Monthly | |
| Why Would Christians Choose To Sin? | Source unknown | |
| Bandaids on the Bathroom Mirror | Source unknown | |
| Chair Affixed to a Shotgun | Jeffrey D. King | |
| Cold Spiritually | The Prairie Overcomer | |
| Put in the Prison He Built | Today in the Word, July 12, 1993 | |
| Quote | Hoest in Parade | |
| Raccoons | Bob Campbell | |
| The Deceitfulness of Sin In Rousseau | Our Daily Bread, April 7 | |
| Mortal and Venial Sins | Tabletalk, April, 1990, p. 34 | |
| What Happens to a Backslider? | Keith L. Brooks, Essential Themes, (Moody Press, Chicago; 1974), pp. 48-49 | |
| I Shout and Scream to Prevent Them from Changing Me | Our Daily Bread | |
| Asbestos | Our Daily Bread | |
| His Own Heart was Lecherous | Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God, (Word Publ, Dallas: 1994), pp. 136-137 | |
| Misdeeds and Missed Deeds | Resource, Sept./Oct., 1992, p. 2 | |
| Quote | ||
| Sin Compared to Poison | Source unknown | |
| A Prisoner of His Own Appetite | Dave Wilkenson | |
| Consumed by Their Own Lust | Chris T. Zwingelberg | |
| Sand in His Shoes | Our Daily Bread | |
| Walking Across the Bog | Source unknown | |
| Special Assignment | Quoted by James Dent in Charleston, W.Va., Gazette | |
| Harvest of Ones Own Sowing | F. B. Meyer in Charles Swindoll, Living Above the Level of Mediocrity, p. 246 | |
| My Wife's First Husband | Source unknown | |
| Arrest of Jose Rivera | Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God, (Word Publ., Dallas: 1994), pp. 98-99 | |
| Catching Ringtailed Monkeys | Source unknown | |
| Christ Knows What Temptation Is | Today in the Word, November, 1998, p. 24 | |
| Eve (Genesis 1) | Dun Gordy, Notes From the Margins of an Old Preacher's Bible, (Circuit Rider Ministries, Leesburg, FL; 1997), p. 2 | |
| Flew a Plane Into Russia | Today in the Word, June 6, 1992 | |
| Good Advice | Source unknown | |
| Greatest Spiritual Challenge | Discipleship Journal, 11-12/92 | |
| If a Brother Sins. . . | Stephen Brown, Christianity Today, April 5, 1993, p. 17 | |
| Lust | Quoted in Putting Your Past Behind You, E. Lutzer, Here's Life, 1990, p. 54 | |
| Misunderstandings Regarding Temptation | Charles Stanley, tape AU146, in IN TOUCH, June 1988, p. 13 | |
| Orel Hershiser's Theory of Pitching | Doug Cecil, Dallas Connection, Spring, 1995, p. 1 | |
| Picked Up the Snake | Bits and Pieces, June, 1990, pp. 5-7 | |
| Promise Keepers Survey | New Man, November/December, 1994, p. 8 | |
| Quotes | ||
| Read Carefully on Sexual Purity | Leading the Way by Paul Borthwick, Navpress, 1989, pp. 120-121 | |
| Red Baron | Today in the Word, January 5, 1997, p. 10 | |
| Refused a Gold Cup | Konosuke Matsushita, founder of Panasonic in his book Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (PHP Institute, Tokyo), Bits & Pieces, June 25, 1992 | |
| Satan Tries to Quench Faith but Christ Keeps it Alive | Source unknown | |
| Stay Out of Those Places | Source unknown | |
| Sundew Flower | Our Daily Bread, December 11, 1992 | |
| Temptation | Source unknown | |
| Temptation | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| The Comfort of the Barnyard | Jim Moss | |
| The Great Wall of China | Source unknown | |
| The Pull of Sin | The Billy Graham Christian Worker's Handbook, (Minneapolis: World Wide Publ., 1984), pp. 231-233 | |
| There are Two Lies Satan Wants Us to Believe | Source unknown | |
| This Fight Ain't Got Any Rear | Daily Walk, July 10, 1993 | |
| Trying to Prove the Bridge Won't Break | Today in the Word, March 14, 1991 | |
| Use Llamas to Scare Coyotes | Barry McGee | |
| Was it Worth the Trouble? | Drew Anderson (Tucson, AZ), Reader's Digest | |
| What Is Temptation | Fairbain, quoted in The Words and Works of Jesus Christ, J. D. Pentecost, p. 99 | |
| Willpower | Renewal, Ray & Anne Ortlund, 1989, Navpress, pp. 73-74 | |
| Yield Not to Temptation | Source unknown | |
| Your Pet Sin Can Kill You | Source unknown |
