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 60 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
- Defining Contradiction and Dalmatian
- Bible Contradictions and September 11th
- Bible Contradiction and Lyrics in Context
- Bible Contradiction and Contronyms
- Bible Contradiction and Mistaking ‘poppers’ for Candy
- Contradiction and the Word with the Most Definitions
- 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
- Spin the Bottle for Multiple Choice Homework and Atheism’s Destruction of Knowledge
- The Person who denied the Sun
- Man blows up part of house while chasing fly
- 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
The Domain for Truth 
Hi Jim! That is quite the list! I haven’t looked at all of them but this one is really good: https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/apologetics-sermon-illustration-42-hypocrisy-christianity-and-the-drunk-police-officer/ Blessings!
Excellent choice Bruce, I remember reading that one too.
What an astounding list brother! 😮
Wow! What a stunning resource and treasure trove.
Blessings to you in your faithfulness in spreading the good news of Jesus.
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Thank you for this compilation, Jim! Blessings to you and your family!
Wow, Jim. Please take time to rest and be with your family in the midst of it all your ministry work! Praying for you, Nancy and kiddos!
Amen sister! Today a pastoral meeting was legitimately canceled last minute and I took it as a sign God wants me to rest today and read His Word and be with family! So all that to say it’s an unexpected rest day 🙂. God is good!
Amen! This warms my heart, yea God!
Thanks for such a great and blessed listing.
Reblogged this on Love and Love Alone.
Thanks for putting this listing together. I was blessed just by reading through the titles and will go back to it again. The canard claiming the Secret Service doesn’t use counterfeit currency to train agents that’s used as an analogy by pastors to excuse them from speaking about false Christian churches immediately caught my eye.
Yeah when people use that illustration as an excuse to not speak about what is false, that is wrong. When used as an analogy to say to focus on what is right than what is wrong, I do appreciate it. But factually Secret Service do study counterfeit and real bills, so there’s a need to have both in a God honoring balance way. Are you called to work today too?
Yup, there are pastors who do get carried away with teaching on false religions, but most won’t say a word about the shenanigans at TBN, the RCC’s false doctrines, etc.
RE: work
I get to sit home today and rest up for the weekend – so opposite of the general public. How’s your day looking? We have more snow coming down so I’ll be cranking up the jalopy snowblower in a couple of hours.
These look fun and educational for both young and older believers!
Wonderful.
Thank you, and also thank you for your comment on the 1.9 million hits’ milestone. You were a part of that with your readership of this blog and also reblogging and sharing our blog elsewhere! May the Lord bless you very much Maw Maw! God bless!
And you also, my Grand.
Wow lots of these are very evangelistic
Wow ! So much work involved in these.
Thank you so much.
Going to go to sleep but before I do I prayed for your evangelism today! Friday!
God bless you. Thank you for praying,
I enjoyed browsing through them
The ones on the importance of doctrines and Christ the only way were very helpful
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What a collection
Your list is quite extensive. The link to the Louisiana Purchase caught my Montana-bred eye. You offer an excellent illustration.
Wow. What a list you have here! Great work for the church of God!
Beautiful illustrations. Some of my greatest childhood memories were from my parents sharing the faith to me with illustrations that explain things.
Atheism is ABSOLUTELY UNSCIENTIFIC because atheists believe in the most irrational miracles of all: something coming from nothing.
My friends need to check this out
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Thank you for always sharing the truth 💗
Your illustrations make me remember sinners desperately need to hear the GOSPEL and be pointed to Jesus because HE IS ONLY Savior!!!
It’s amazing how differently people see things and how conditioned we can be. I find analogies helpful to let them see from Christians worldview