Over some years I’ve been slowly writing down illustrations that I thought might be helpful for sermons or evangelism that has apologetics’ thrusts.
Here’s 50 of them arranged topically. Which one was your favorite?
Illustrations in Defense of the Importance of Doctrines and the need for Discernment of False Doctrines
- The school bell that was a bomb and importance of being able to identify bad doctrines
- Secret Service do train with false currency as well with true currency
- Beware of parasitic false teachers and Polyergus breviceps Parasitic ants
- Why Doctrinal Details matter and the case of Kenyan accidental flight to North Korea rather than South Korea
- Marines’ Body Armor and Trust or Criticism of What One Believes
- Messianic Prophecy And A Red Carpet Premiere
Illustrations Explaining and Defending the Gospel
- Rejection of man-centered theology/philosophy
- Poor excuses against rejecting Christianity
- Bad excuses for rejecting Jesus and Christianity and the analogy of dental care
- Rejecting Christianity because of bad religious leaders and the analogy of rejecting dental care because of a bad orthodontist
- There are Too Many Religions Which One is True and Counterfeit Currencies
- Hypocrisy, Christianity and the Case of Patrick Rock
- Hypocrisy, Christianity and the Drunk Police Officer
- Handling Bible Contradictions
- Bible Contradictions and Fitting Puzzle Pieces
- Idioms of Love and Bible Contradictions
- Whoppers and Bible Contradictions
- Bible Contradiction and Gold Medal at the Cambrian Patrol
- Bible Contradiction and the Word “Left”
- Bible Contradiction and Louisiana Purchase
- Bible Contradiction and Thanksgiving Story
- Refuting Contradictions and Martial Arts Punch
- Our sins and the problem with self-righteousness before a Good God
- Defense of Sharing the Gospel
Illustrations of Presuppositional Apologetics
- Doing Math with Dice and Atheism’s Destruction of Knowledge
- Motorcyclist dies while protesting without a helmet against helmet laws
- Attacking Corporations and Banks while depending on Corporations and Banks to even attack it
- Why we question alleged disproof that mathematics or Christianity are not true
- Blackouts and one’s dependence on Electricity and man’s dependence on God
- Using Rights to Hand Guns While Critical of Rights to Hand Guns
- Transcendental Arguments and Chelsea Clinton’s Suicidal Argument
- Bad foundations of worldviews and Louisiana Sinkhole
- Self-refuting arguments and Soviet Anti-tank dogs
- Snake Biting Self and Self-Refuting Arguments
- Don’t believe Oxygen exists? What If The World Lost Oxygen For 5 Seconds?
- Torching A Safe Full of Fire Works and Self-Destructive Arguments
- Trying to Kill A Spider by burning down the House and how atheists argue
- Going Against God While Relying On Him and man who stole ambulance sent to help him
- Transcendental Argument illustrated with Would-be robber breaks leg, calls ambulance with shop’s payphone
- FBI going after terrorist network and not just individuals and importance of refuting worldviews
- Transcendental Argument illustrated with Anti-Cop Rapper Has Life Saved by Cops
- Refuting Presuppositions and Ant Bait
- Refuting Presuppositions and Handling ISIS Drones
- Refuting Presuppositions and Fighting Terrorist Financing
Lots of interesting information here…looking forward to reading and learning
Aww glad to hear that, I hope and pray these would be helpful for your evangelism and witnessing conversations both on Fridays and also in day to day life conversations!
God bless you and thank you.
Jimmy, thanks for this good resource!
You’re welcome! I’ve been working on these for years and it took me a long time to get to 50 of them! I imagine your favorite must have been the secret service one. By the way during my routine check of the spam comments I was able to fish out your comment of “Good night.” Strange how sometimes WordPress can be so sensitive to alleged spammers yet other times not catch actual spammers completely….have a blessed day brother Tom!
Good illustrations can really help drive home the message in a sermon. Ach, that dumb secret service counterfeit canard is the worst! I used to bristle every time I heard it. Such bad reasoning. Thanks for fishing out my comment. I just checked my spam because it’s been a few days. Yeah, I’ve had actual spam get through. Thanks and have a blessed day, too, brother!
Now this is really, really great. Thanks brother!
Reblogged this on Talmidimblogging.
Thanks for reblogging this brother Vincent!
Yankee Whiskey Bravo Jim 😎💪
Reblogged this on The Recovering Legalist and commented:
This is such an impressive list of illustrations that I’m reblogging it for no other reason than I need a bookmark. I mean, if I share it then I’ll be less likely to forget it, right?
Jim and his crew have followed my blog for a while, now. I don’t know why I haven’t shared his posts more often.
If you get a chance to read these illustrations before me, let me know which one is your favorite… and let Jim know I said “Hi!”
Wow Anthony thank you for reblogging this! I appreciate it very much for sharing and caring!
Looks like I got me some more reading to do! Thanks for sharing your resources Pastor Jim may we grow in our knowledge from them 🙂 Have a blessed day with Jesus
Reblogged this on Logos Speaks.
Reblogged. Excellent Go To. We are always searching for answers ourselves or for those who ask us to explain. Ty. Love in Christ.
Thank you so much for reblogging this Hawk2017 (or should I address you with another name?). I hope some of those analogies would serve as helpful explanations to others in an evangelistic or apologetic context. Let me know if any of them are your favorite. I hope you have a blessed day sister!
and to you , my brothe. you may call me Bonnie.:)
This is awesome! Thank you, brother!
You’re welcome! I just prayed for your packing and moving, which I imagine is always difficult but can be harder during this time of the year. Blessings to you and your family!
Thank you, brother! I appreciate those prayers.
The dental ones are helpful for dealing with those who bring up the hypocrisy objection
Just noticed there’s two dental analogies
What a list, wow
Thanks! A few years ago you prompted me to make a post listing my refutation of contradictions which led me to also want to make a listing of my apologetics’ illustrations as well! So…thanks Wally, you contributed the idea of making this post!
I remember that, and I still have it bookmarked for reference. It’s probably due for an update LOL, as you have written more since then.
The army ant death circles reminded me of a common phrase,”Don’t bother me!
I’m just trying to get on with my life.” 🙄
Good point it made me think of Ecclesiastes 1…and the point that it is vanity of vanities of life just going through quickly on the hamste wheels but going nowhere. How a Life for God changes all that Amen?
Amen!
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I like the illustration on fighting ISIS drones
Thanks feel free to share them with others!
Will do! I’m still going through them
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I like the dice illustration
I just passed this on.
This is the right blog for anyone who wants to find out about Presuppositional apologetics.
I like the ones refuting the objections arguing from the hypocrisy of Christians
This is wonderful Jimmy!
There’s some that made me chuckle
Love the Presuppositional apologetics analogy. One got to deal with the skeptics by wha of an internal critique. When we hold them to their worldview it’s inconsistent and incoherent and impossible to even argue against the Christian.
Saw some bad atheists arguments online recently some of which your illustrations addressed. They are all so, so bad. If I had the time and energy, I’d create a TikTok page dedicated to just ripping on them lol
I love the ones refuting ethics is only imitating nature
* Nothing quite like some good old Biblical answers 😇🖤 *
Thank you so much sir 😍💪👌
Reading this can be for education, evangelism and entertainment
SlimJim these are good analogies, I read many of them you have here. They makes sense logically and the illustrations are very compelling.