Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks: 100 Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and Anecdotes
Your search for lively illustrations to spice up your youth talks is over. Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks is here! Veteran youth worker and nationally known speaker Wayne Rice has carefully selected and crafted 100 of the best stories, parables, and anecdotes available anywhere. Rice has collected these illustrations form his own files and from files of some of youth ministry's best speakers -- Mike Yaconelli -- Tony Campolo -- Dewey Bertolini -- Chap Clark -- Les Christie -- Ray Johnston -- Len Kageler -- Rick Bundschuh --- and many more! These stories (all indexed by topic) cover a lot of youth ministry ground -- some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and all of them will make you think. And they all work with teenagers. They're just the thing to give your youth talks that extra spark you're looking for. You'll love what Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks will do for your youth talks. And your kids will love you for it!
CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO CHOOSE AND USE ILLUSTRATIONS
HOT ILLUSTRATIONS
Alexander the Great
An Answer to Prayer
Awesome Obedience
The Battleship and the Lighthouse
The Bear in the Cave
Beauty and the Beast
The Bee Sting
Beware of Curare
Big Adventures
The Big Rock
The Blind Date
The Blind Men and the Elephant
The Blood of an Overcomer
The Boat in the Window
Bonny’s Bunny
Born to Fly
The Bottle
Bought to Be Freed
The Boy and the Circus
Brandon’s Mess
Caught in a Blizzard
The Chicken and the Pig
Choosing Mary
The Circus Clown
The Cliff
The Coffin
Coming Home
Computer Grace
The Cookie Snatcher
Deadly Marbles
The Diamond Merchant
The Emperor Moth
Eskimo Wolf Hunters
Excuses, Excuses
Face the Music
Finish the Race
The Flying V
The Flying Wallendas
Footprints in the Sand
France, 1943
Getting the Word Out
The Glove
The Greatest Hitter in the World
The Greyhound Races
The Grocery Store Clerk
Hannibal’s Fire
The Hermit’s Gift
The Hopeless Baseball Game
How to Catch a Monkey
The Insurance Claim
Jesus and the Football Team
The Jewelry Store Caper
The Jigsaw Puzzle
The Job Applicant
The Kebbitch Itch
The Kiss
“Lambing” in New Zealand
Laying Bricks or Building Cathedrals
The Lifeboat
The Lifesaving Station
The Little Girl and the Piano
The Long Jump
Lost Dog---$50 Reward
Love, Julie
The Mirror
A Night in the Haunted House
Not Much of a Man
The Oil Refinery
Out at Home Plate
The Painting of the Last Supper
Pepe Rodriguez
The Prince of Grenada
The Queen of England
Real Friends
The Reverse Thread
Right Decisions
Rudolph and Olive
The Secret
Sharpen Your Ax
The Smartest Teenager in the World
The Society Woman
Sparky, the Loser
The Suicide Attempt
Teddy and Miss Thompson
Telemachus Goes to Rome
Thermometers and Thermostats
Thomas Edison, the Failure
The Three Spinners
The Tightrope and the Wheelbarrow
Too Many Engineers
The Tractor Pull
The Turtle Picnic
Uncompromising Determination
The W.C.
We’ll Get Back to You
What Life?
When Do I Die?
The Window
Wrong Way Riegel
You, Too, Can Be Beautiful
We want your Hot Illustration!
Index to Topics
Product Details
- Title : Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks: 100 Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and Anecdotes
- Author: Rice, Wayne
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9780310872689