Show Me How to Illustrate Evangelistic Sermons: A Guide for Pastors and Speakers

In a definitive volume on how to illustrate sermons, author and speaker R. Larry Moyer shows pastors and speakers how to clearly present the good news with effective and memorable stories and quotations. With hundreds of pages of examples, this is the how-to book for illustrating not only evangelistic messages but all sermos. Included are nine helpful chapters and an index of topics.Good illustrations powerfully connect ideas to experience. They make otherwise difficult and seemingly unrelated concepts accessible to a wide range of listeners. Too often and too easily, however, illustrations fall short of the mark. Speakers settle for what is quick, clever, or cute. Moyer knows that the right illustration is crucial in presenting the good news. And he can show pastors and speakers how to add impact to their evangelistic preaching with proven and time-tested principles. All pastors and speakers who want to challenge listeners with the gospel message can profit from this insightful resource.Check out Dr. Moyer's and EvanTell's latest project!From the Back CoverIn a definitive volume on how to illustrate sermons, author and speaker R. Larry Moyer shows patsors and speakers how to clearly present the good news with effective and memorable stories and quoutations. With hundreds of pages of examples, this is the how-to book for illustrating not only evangelistic messages but all sermons. Included are nine helpful chapters and an index of topics.Not only does Larry Moyer provide a method for securing illustrations or semons, but he also presents an incredible mine of illustrations from which preachers can draw. Well done!Scott M. Gibson, Haddon Robinson Professor of Preaching, Gordon-Conwell SeminaryA great illustration often is soured by preachers who struggle to move into and then out of an illustration. Larry's book provides great illlustrations and the transitions to go with them. This book is a gold mine for preachers.--Calvin Pearson, Associate Pastor, Crossroads Baptist Church and former Associate Professor of Preaching, Southwestern Baptist Theological SeminaryAbout the AuthorR. Larry Moyer (Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary) is president and CEO of EvanTell, Inc., an evangelistic association in Dallas, Texas, and is a speaker at evangelistic outreaches, training seminars, and in classrooms across the country. His other books include Free and Clear, Larry Moyer’s How-To Book on Personal Evangelism, Thirty-One Days with the Master Fisherman, and Welcome to the Family (by Evantell).