Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks Vol. 4 : Another 100 Attention-Getting Tales, Narratives, and Stories with a Message

by Wayne Rice

• ISBN13: 9780310236191
• ISBN10: 0310236193
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

The fourth volume of the best-selling Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks series delivers all-new, lively, effective illustrations, stories, parables, and anecdotes from the files of many of youth ministry's best speakers.

Table of Contents

Alphabetical list of illustrations	5	(1)
Quick illustration locator by topic	6	(4)
Quick illustration locator by Scripture	10	(1)
Introduction: Choosing and using illustrations	11	(12)
Pull, Buddy!	23	(1)
The House in the Dark	24	(2)
Car Jacking Foiled!	26	(2)
Farmer Fleming	28	(2)
Dead or Alive?	30	(2)
The Egg Toss	32	(1)
Bad Tire, Good Business	33	(2)
The Stonecutter	35	(2)
Real Pearls	37	(2)
Through Thick and Thin	39	(1)
A Special Occasion	40	(2)
Radical Faith	42	(1)
What's Your Excuse?	43	(2)
Do Something!	45	(2)
Bobby's Valentines	47	(2)
Clever Hans	49	(2)
Jason's Worst Christmas	51	(2)
The Cracked Pot	53	(2)
The CPR Class	55	(2)
A Great Man	57	(2)
Fighting Fire with Fire	59	(1)
The List	60	(2)
Timmy's Flower	62	(2)
On the Right Track	64	(2)
Just Some Old Birds	66	(2)
Do You Know Me?	68	(2)
The Carpenter's Gift	70	(2)
True Confessions	72	(1)
Early Flubber	73	(2)
Old Habits	75	(1)
Too Busy	76	(1)
The Inheritance	77	(1)
The Echo	78	(1)
Baboons on the Loose	79	(2)
A Little Problem	81	(1)
I Can Quit	82	(2)
Who's Watching?	84	(1)
Sobibor	85	(2)
Lashed to the Mast	87	(2)
Alyssa	89	(2)
Wayward Sons	91	(2)
You're Not a Monk	93	(2)
Only a Prayer	95	(3)
God's Pictures	98	(1)
Bored and Busy	99	(1)
Too Late	100	(2)
Let There Be Peace	102	(2)
What Chair?	104	(1)
The Bus Driver's Gift	105	(1)
E-Flat	106	(1)
Not a Good Example	107	(1)
Hep Baddy	108	(2)
Saved by Stirrups	110	(2)
I Know You	112	(2)
It's the Water	114	(1)
Looking for Jesus	115	(2)
Oliver	117	(2)
One Expensive Pearl	119	(2)
The Little River	121	(1)
Twenty Dollars Short	122	(2)
The Crooked Picture	124	(2)
God's Donuts	126	(1)
Love at First Sight	127	(1)
Holy Bucket!	128	(1)
That's My Child	129	(2)
Soaring	131	(2)
The Giant	133	(1)
The Choice	134	(2)
They Said Yes	136	(2)
Stepping	138	(3)
The Parable of the Baseball Team	141	(1)
Saving Private Ryan	142	(2)
Ramu	144	(1)
Catch-22	145	(1)
Proverbs to Live By	146	(2)
Winners	148	(2)
First Class	150	(2)
The Dirty Dollar	152	(1)
The Man on the Hill	153	(1)
Giving It Up for a Friend	154	(2)
No Secrets	156	(2)
An Altitude Problem	158	(1)
Doomed	159	(1)
The First Shall Be Last	160	(1)
No Basket!	161	(2)
Shake It Off	163	(1)
Unbreakable	164	(2)
The Camel Question	166	(1)
The Happiest Man on Earth	167	(2)
Immunity	169	(1)
Can You Be Trusted?	170	(2)
Dr. Drew's Discovery	172	(2)
Think of Me	174	(2)
Not Much	176	(2)
New Ears	178	(2)
Dancing in a Toll Booth	180	(2)
The Missing Dollar	182	(2)
The Love Life of the Frog	184	(1)
Uncovering the Art	185	(1)
Columbus's Legacy	186	(1)
Wrong Order!	187	(1)
Amy Carmichael	188	(2)
Contributors	190