Still More Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks

100 More Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and Anecdotes

Wayne Rice

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780310224648
• eBook ISBN:
  9780310877622
• Topic: Teología y religión
• Subtopic: Ministerio cristiano

A captivating, skillfully chosen illustration communicates more, is remembered longer, and has greater impact than thousands of words that offer abstract truth but tell no story. Jesus knew the value of story. He consistently sprinkled his talks with parables, stories, and illustrations to drive home the point He was making. In the best-selling tradition of Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks and More Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks, comes a third volume of lively, effective illustrations, stories, parables, and anecdotes, compiled by veteran youth worker Wayne Rice. Some will make listeners laugh, some will make them cry, and all of them will make kids think. This all-new collection of illustrations comes from the personal files of many of today's most popular youth speakers. Guaranteed teenager friendly, Still More Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks will give a youth minister fresh ways to help kids understand and apply important truths for their lives.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction Choosing and Using Illustrations
• Earthly Treasures
• Only in the Movies
• The Flight of Larry Walters
• Room in the Lifeboats
• The Smallest Piece
• Bad Math, Good Play
• Sleeping Through the Storm
• The Top 15 Biblical Ways to Get a Wife
• A Nobody Named Kimball
• Uncle George
• Well, Nobody’s Perfect
• Chip and Dale’s Big Push
• The Littlest Candle
• The Polish Underground
• Where Did I Come From?
• Santa’s Trip
• The Prize
• Dumb Crooks
• All is Forgiven
• The Street Bum
• Take Me to Your Leader
• The Village of Worth
• Finding Happiness in Tibet
• The Flat Tire
• Get a Bigger Frying Pan
• Sewing the Sheets
• Table for Two
• A Bad Future Investment
• You Call This Justice?
• Hanging in There
• A Matter of Perspective
• The Holy Men
• The Scar Study
• I Didn’t Know That!
• The Mystery of the Mop
• In the Dark
• The Golden Fish
• Shut Up and Fish
• Too Polite
• The Coach
• The Man Who Changed the World
• The High Dive
• Tossing the Queen
• A Meeting with the Top Dog
• Jimmy’s Ranch
• A Purifying Fire
• Why I Never Eat
• The Farmer’s Three Wishes
• Monkey Addicts
• An Idiot’s Guide to Easter
• The New Irrational Version (NIV)
• The Baby Wildebeest
• Little Rivets, Big Disaster
• No Greater Love
• You Call this a Service Station?
• Oh God, How Long?
• Me Too!
• But I Have Not Yet Gone to College
• Onion Breath
• The Art Auction
• Jenny
• Come Home
• Praise in the Dugout
• Psychiatric Hot Line
• Duh…
• Read All about It!
• Donuts at the Back
• Sammy’s Big Catch
• The River
• The Saucer
• How to Train an Elephant
• God’s Nickel
• King of the Universe
• Gilbert the Giant
• A Special Special Olympics
• The Ballad of the Oyster
• Sleeping with a Monkey
• The Graduation Gift
• A Mickey Mouse Trip
• Stages of a Cold
• Star Light Star Bright
• The Tomato Frog
• 1809
• The Good Samaritan Revisited
• Famous Bumper Snickers
• The Test
• The Stunt Man
• Too Honest
• The Lesson
• Better Not Drop That Egg
• Not Again!
• Trapper John
• The Treasures of the Church
• A Bucket of Money
• One Amazing Kid
• The Cross Room
• You’re Gonna Die
• Grandma’s Ham
• Midnight and the Porcupine
• Contributors
• Can’t get enough illustrations?
• Copyright
• About the Publisher
• Share Your Thoughts