From Leadership, the foremost professional journal for church leaders, comes a collection of contemporary illustrations--extensively cross-indexed for speakers, teachers, writers, and preachers.

A convenient source for contemporary illustrations and stories, this book helps users make their messages more memorable, powerful, and relevant to today's media-engaged listeners.

A vast resource of forceful preaching and speaking quotations and stories arranged alphabetically under 50 categories, each with 20 scriptural illustrations.

Every preacher, teacher, or writer knows the value of a good illustration in helping connect the truth of the passage with the congregation or class—and how hard it is to come up with good illustrations week after week. This book contains the cream of the crop: 1001 illustrations carefully selected from among thousands on Christianity Today International’s popular website PreachingToday.com. These illustrations are proven, memorable, and illuminating. As the saying goes, they will preach! And they’re fresh, all written within the past seven years. Of course the best illustrations are no good if you can’t find the right one. These illustrations have been arranged according to twelve master topics, each divided into several subtopics. Further, they’ve been indexed according both to Bible references and to 500 keywords. A searchable CD-ROM is included, allowing you to get the illustration into your lesson or sermon with ease.

Preaching Illustrations from Church History is a ready reference of over four hundred choice illustrations for use in preaching and teaching.

"If we look through a piece of red glass, everything is red; through blue glass everything is blue; through yellow glass, everything is yellow, and so on. "The glorious truth is that when we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, God looks at us through the Lord Jesus Christ. He sees us in all the white holiness of His Son. That is the great New Testament doctrine of the imputation of our sin to the account of Christ and His righteousness to our account." Preachers and Bible teachers prize good illustrations. A great story is often the clearest and most memorable way for listeners to grasp the truth of God's Word. This timeless collection brings together hundreds of penetrating illustrations and pithy anecdotes from one of the twentieth century's evangelical master expositors, Donald Grey Barnhouse. With typical warmth and humor, Barnhouse illuminates all of Scripture's key topics: God, Christ, the tempter and temptation, sin, salvation, the Bible, the church, Christian life and growth, forgiveness, witnessing, thanksgiving, Christian families, and much more. This two-in-one collection was previously published as "Illustrating Great Themes of Scripture" and "Let Me Illustrate: 400 Stories, Anecdotes, and Illustrations."

The Ultimate Contemporary Resource for Preachers. Thousands of real-life stories, illustrations, and quotes edited by popular author and pastor Rob Morgan. Previously published as Nelson's Complete Book of Stories, Illustrations, and Quotes.