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    Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks: 100 Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and Anecdotes
    Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks: 100 Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and Anecdotes
    Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks: 100 Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and Anecdotes
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    Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks: 100 Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and Anecdotes

    By Wayne Rice

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    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!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateMay 4, 2010
    ISBN9780310872689
    Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks: 100 Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and Anecdotes
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    Wayne Rice

    Wayne Rice is founder and director of Understanding Your Teenager (UYT), an organization serving parents of teens and pre-teens. He is adjunct professor of youth ministry at Bethel Theological Seminary (San Diego) and at North American Baptist Seminary in Sioux Falls. He lives with his wife in Lakeside, CA.

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      Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks - Wayne Rice

      An Answer to Prayer

      A group of California high school students had spent three months preparing and planning to go to Mexico during Easter break to help the poor. They had prayed that God would use them in a mighty way. Anticipating an exciting week of ministry, they journeyed to a small church near Mexicali.

      Upon arriving at the small rural village on a Sunday morning, the students saw that the church where they were going to serve had been badly burned. The roof had caved in, and only the four walls remained. They cautiously made their way into what was left of the building, while a hymn was being sung in Spanish. They were greeted by the puzzled stares of a weary, discouraged Mexican pastor and nine parishioners who were midway through their Sunday morning service. It was apparent that the congregation had never received the group’s letters explaining their plans to serve and had no idea that the group was coming to spend the week with them.

      At the end of the hymn, the pastor stopped the service, walked back to the group of high school students and said, Que pasa? (which the group interpreted to mean, What in the world are you rich white kids doing in our church?).

      After a long silence, one of the students spoke: We are Christians, and we are here to serve.

      On hearing this the pastor’s eyes brimmed with tears. Some people in the village burned down our church six months ago, he explained. We’ve been praying that God would send help, but we had given up hope that help was ever coming. Praise be to God!

      The thirty-five high school students were stunned silent. They had heard many times that God wanted to use them; now they were experiencing it for the first time. Amazed, one of the students turned to another and said, I can’t believe it. We’re an answer to prayer!

      Application:

      God does want to use us, and He will—if we will only obey Him and follow Christ’s example to be a servant. (See Philippians 2:3-11.) We can be the answer to someone’s prayer by moving out of our comfort zones to use the gifts God has given us to make a difference in the world.

      Awesome Obedience

      A few centuries before Christ, Alexander the Great conquered almost all of the known world with his military strength, cleverness, and diplomacy. One day Alexander and a small company of soldiers approached a strongly defended, walled city. Alexander, standing outside the walls, raised his voice, demanding to see the king. The king, approaching the battlements above the invading army, agreed to hear Alexander’s demands.

      Surrender to me immediately, commanded Alexander.

      The king laughed. Why should I surrender to you? he called down. "We have you far outnumbered. You are no threat to

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