750 Engaging Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers and Writers

by Craig Brian Larson

Publisher:

Baker

, 2002

Overview

Previously published in 3 separate volumes, this user-friendly, portable one-volume resource of over 750 illustrations and stories will make your preaching, teaching, and writing more effective and relevant to today’s media-saturated listeners. These are wonderful stories taken right out of ordinary life, on such topics as faith, giving, and persistence. Included are alternate subject listings to help you adapt selections for use with many topics; a Scripture index and easy-to-use topical index; and permission to copy entries.

Contents

Top Highlights

“It’s unique. The century plant (Agave Americana) thrives in rocky, mountainous, desert sites. It has dramatic, splayed leaves that grow up to a foot wide. The plant can reach twelve feet in diameter.” (Page 388)

“ Over time, they became by habit people who just knew what to do and did it. When it came time for them to be” (Page 229)

“When you truly believe in a person in authority, you follow that person in complete obedience.” (Page 35)

“‘Baseball is going to do just fine without me,’ he said. ‘It’s not going to miss a beat. But I’m the only father my children have. I’m the only husband my wife has. And they need me a lot more than baseball does.’” (Page 166)

“I was a wounded, ugly woman. I had made my husband my god and my Savior my sidekick.” (Page 39)

Product Details

• Title: 750 Engaging Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers and Writers
• Author: Craig Brian Larson
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 672

About Craig Brian Larson

Craig Brian Larson is editor of PreachingToday.com and worked as a contributing editor of Leadership Journal. Besides pastoring a church in Chicago, he is also a freelance writer and speaker. He is the author of Preaching That Connects and Hang in There...to the Better End.