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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.

March 19, 2021

Talents

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Haddon Robinson tells of a concert violinist whose brother was a bricklayer. One day a woman began gushing to the bricklayer about how wonderful it was to be in the family of that violinist. But not wanting to insult the bricklayer, she ...

March 19, 2021

Anger

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In his book The 7 Sins of Highly Defective People, Rick Ezell writes: When my wife and I were in London one spring, we discovered that some of the bombs dropped on England are still killing people. Sometimes they are discovered and some...

March 19, 2021

Forgiveness

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In his Turning Point devotional, David Jeremiah tells the story of poet Edwin Markham, who – as he approached retirement – discovered that the man to whom he had entrusted his financial portfolio had spent every single penny. Markh...

March 19, 2021

Christmas

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In the book Christmas Spoken Here, John Killinger wrote: “One day I was staring through the window of a beautiful little Christmas shop. It was packed with Christmas items, even though Christmas was still six months away. There were e...

March 19, 2021

Marriage, Vision

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Bill Bouknight tells the story of a certain isolated Pacific island where it was the custom that when a young man proposed marriage, he would announce his intention to the entire village.  Then he and the whole community would go to th...

March 19, 2021

Heaven, Death

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A father was at the beach with his children when his four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand,and led him to the shore where a sea gull lay dead in the sand. “Daddy, what happened to him?” the son asked. “He died and went to Hea...

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