Finding Illustrations Useful for Preaching

Finding Illustrations Useful for Preaching We've been considering the art of illustration your sermons.  You'll find the first post in the series here.  In this post we look at how to go about finding illustrations useful for preaching impact…

Final Reasons To Use Illustrations Effectively

Final Reasons to Use Illustrations Effectively We are considering the reality in the past few posts that illustrations will make your sermons better.  In this post, we look at the final reasons to use illustrations effectively in your sermons. Personal…

More Reasons To Plan Effective Illustrations

 More Reasons to Plan Effective Illustrations The last post in this blog listed several reasons to put your energy, time and creativity into planning effective illustrations for your messages.  In this post we will look at more reasons to…

Why You Need Good Illustrations

Why You Need Good Illustrations The last several posts have been about the 6 levels of illustration, with an emphasis on using the first 4 levels and avoiding the last 2.  In this post we are going to consider why you need good illustrations…

Watch Out For This Kind of Illustration

Watch Out For This Kind of Illustration In the last few posts we have considered various kinds of illustrations according to the guidelines developed by Haddon Robinson.  Then we illustrated the first four levels of illustration.  We now…

Preaching Illustrations Illustrated

Preaching Illustrations Illustrated We are considering how to use effective illustrations for preaching.  We continue that focus in this post as we look at preaching illustrations illustrated for better preaching. In the last two posts…

Illustrations of Illustrations For Preaching

Illustrations of Illustrations for Preaching In the last post, we considered the five levels of illustration, as described by Haddon Robinson.  In this post we examine illustrations of illustrations for preaching for those levels. Level…