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Need a great story to support your points? From this page you can search for key terms like TRUST and see all of our Illustrations dealing with the topic of trust. Check back often as we regularly add to this archive.

July 20, 2023

Hope

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In her study on suffering, Vaneetha Risner states, “Our hope isn’t in changed circumstances, but it is in an unchanging God, who meets us in the storm.”  If our hope is dependent on something changing then we will be consistently...

July 20, 2023

God

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Louis XIV became king of France at the age of 4 and reigned for 72 years – 2 years longer than Queen Elizabeth.  Filled with hubris about his power, he called himself the “Great Monarch” and declared, “I am the State!”  In ...

July 20, 2023

Focus

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If you’ve ever used an Apple product or benefited from their stock, then you can appreciate focus.  Co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) said, “Focus and simplicity…Once you get there, you can move mountains.”  But in the same breath he...

July 20, 2023

Fear

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Renowned sports psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais claims, “One of the greatest threats in modern life is the irrational and unproductive obsession with what other people are thinking of us.”  He also calls FOPO (Fear of Other People’s...

July 20, 2023

Discipleship

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If you want to live in the King George Island Villas Las Estrellas settlement of Antarctica, you’re required to have your appendix removed before arriving.  There are only about 100 residents in the community that boasts a bank, chur...

July 20, 2023

Bible

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An engineer, a physics grad student, and a nonprofit fundraiser were all stumped.  Sounds like some joke, but this was reality TV on June 13, 2023.  The $200 prompt on Jeopardy was, “Matthew 6:9 says, ‘Our Father which art in hea...

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