{"id":8161,"date":"2022-01-06T16:56:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/?page_id=8161"},"modified":"2022-01-06T17:14:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:14:28","slug":"8161-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/8161-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"facetwp-template\" data-name=\"blog_posts\"><div class=\"fwpl-layout el-hkhimk\"><div class=\"fwpl-result r1\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">You've Got To Be Kind<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">In Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s book, \u201cGod Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,\u201d Eliot Rosewater, an eccentric dogooder, was discussing with his wife the birth of twins to a half-witted townsperson named Mary Moody. \u201cI&#8217;m baptizing them tomorrow,\u201d he says. \u201cI didn&#8217;t know you&#8211;you did things like that,\u201d Sylvia replied. \u201cI couldn&#8217;t get out of it,\u201d said Eliot. \u201cShe [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/youve-got-to-be-kind\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r2\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">You're Still You<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">At the time of his horse riding accident, Christopher Reeve was married to Dana Morosini. In his 1998 book, \u201cStill Me,\u201d he recalled that after the accident, when he contemplating giving up, his wife told him: \u201cI want you to know that I&#8217;ll be with you for the long haul, no matter what. You&#8217;re still [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/youre-still-you\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r3\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">You're In Good Hands<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">What happens when we leave our lives in God&#8217;s hands. 1. God&#8217;s hands are a place of majesty and power. 2. God&#8217;s hands are a place of loving intervention. 3. God&#8217;s hands are a place of safety. 4. God&#8217;s hands are a place of discipline. 5. God&#8217;s hands are a place of fulfillment. Further development [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/youre-in-good-hands\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r4\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">You're Driving Me Crazy!<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE WITHOUT LOSING YOUR COOL If Robert won&#8217;t share the crayons with you, tell him he&#8217;ll have to sit down during recess. If you can&#8217;t say something nice, don&#8217;t say anything at all. Go play outside, I can&#8217;t concentrate with all the noise! From the very beginning we are taught [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/youre-driving-me-crazy-2\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r5\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">You're Driving Me Crazy!<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE WITHOUT LOSING YOUR COOL If Robert won&#8217;t share the crayons with you, tell him he&#8217;ll have to sit down during recess. If you can&#8217;t say something nice, don&#8217;t say anything at all. Go play outside, I can&#8217;t concentrate with all the noise! From the very beginning we are taught [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/youre-driving-me-crazy\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r6\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Your Support System<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">Have you noticed how help is often available just when you need it? A few years ago, a California artist carved a unique Christmas gift for his parents in Connecticut. It was a four-foot-tall statue of a hitchhiker, with thumb extended. (The perfect gift for the discriminating homeowner&#8230;) His gift was unusual, but his method [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/your-support-system\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r7\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Your 'Moronic 2 Minutes'<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">Pastor, have you ever had a meltdown in the pulpit? In the news recently, two Atlanta radio jocks were fired for the on-air mocking they did of a New Orleans icon, former Saints football player Steve Gleason who has ALS (Lou Gehrig\u2019s) and lives in a wheelchair and speaks through a computer. They made fun [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/your-moronic-2-minutes\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r8\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Your Love and Loyalty Can Be Seen In Your Hands<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">Tolstoy once told a story of a Czar and Czarina who wished to honor the members of their court with a banquet. They sent out invitations and requested that the guests come with the invitations in their hands. When they arrived at the banquet the guests were surprised to discover that the guards did not [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/your-love-and-loyalty-can-be-seen-in-your-hands\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r9\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Your Job Is Staying On the Chariot<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">When Charlton Heston was concerned about not being able to win the chariot race in the movie Ben Hur, Cecil B. DeMille told him, &#8220;Your job is to stay on [the chariot]. It&#8217;s my job to make sure you win.&#8221; So too for us &#8211; we&#8217;re just to do what God has asked us to [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/your-job-is-staying-on-the-chariot\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r10\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Your Facebook Identity<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">When Mark Zuckerberg was a teenager at Phillips Exeter Academy, he kept up with students\u2019 names and faces by using a \u201cface book\u201d &#8212; a booklet published annually containing the names and pictures of students and faculty. Zuckerberg is now 32 and a billionaire as the result of creating his own face book: Facebook.com, the [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/your-facebook-identity\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r11\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Your Difficulty Is Showing<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">Read Psalm 8 Your praise reaches up to the heavens; it is sung by children and babies . &#8212; Psalm 8:1-2 (TEV) HOW wonderful it is to see the world through the eyes of a child! My three-year-old son, Joshua, can sometimes put everything in perspective. I teach his Sunday school class. On some Sunday [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/your-difficulty-is-showing\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r12\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Your Destiny<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">\u201cI don&#8217;t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found a way to serve.\u201d ________ Albert Schweitzer<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/your-destiny\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r13\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Your Brain Is the Greatest Computer Ever Created<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">Have you ever walked into a room and couldn&#8217;t remember what you went there for? Have you ever grasped the hand of a potential client and then when the handshake broke, the name seemed to disappear from your memory? Or have you ever left a prospect and as you drove away remembered a key point [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/your-brain-is-the-greatest-computer-ever-created\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r14\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">Young People Believe In Missions<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">&#8220;The young people of this generation do not apologize for worldwide missions. They believe in it as has no preceding generation of young people. Let us rise and resolve that, at whatever cost of self- denial, that live or die, we shall live or die for the evangelization of the world in our day.&#8221; John [&hellip;]<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-8560dc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/young-people-believe-in-missions\/\"><button>View Illustration<\/button><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r15\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-1glwam\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-vdebzp\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-5g1sz8\">You Wouldn't Follow Him Today<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-rch7bo\">Joan Ganz Cooney, head of Children&#8217;s Television Network, said this: \u201cMost people who call themselves Christian would not follow Jesus if he returned today. 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