Michelangelo's Unfinished Sculptures

Visitors to a museum in Rome might be struck by four partially finished sculptures. These were figures Michelangelo originally intended to use on the ...

"The Matrix": Unseen Reality

In the science fiction movie, The Matrix, the real world has been taken over by computers that keep humans in bondage by creating a false reality in their ...

"Shawshank Redemption": Imprisoned by Sin

Warning: The movie clip of this illustration contains profanity. PreachingToday.com recommends that you not show the video but rather simply tell the ...

"The Hurricane": Love Sets Us Free

Denzel Washington stars in The Hurricane, the true story of professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's life. At the height of his boxing ...

A Father's Love

In Surprised by Children, Harold Myra writes:

One afternoon my older brother Johnny and I were walking home from school when we suddenly found ourselves ...

What Provokes Change

Danny Cox, a former jet pilot turned business leader, tells his readers in Seize the Day that when jet fighters were first invented, they "flew much ...

Who's Master?

Whatever injury wicked men-in-power inflict upon good men is to be regarded ... as a test for the good man's virtues. Thus, a good man, though a slave, ...

Being Angry with God

It is a bewildering experience to come face to face with the fact that you are angry with the almighty Creator of heaven and earth.

The Obscured Soul

The fact that Scripture speaks of our present unlikeness to God does not mean that Holy Writ maintains the likeness has been destroyed, but that something ...

God Never Made Birdcages

The Spirit of God is always the spirit of liberty; the spirit that is not of God is the spirit of bondage, the spirit of oppression and depression. The ...