Using Illustrations to Preach with Power

Revised Edition

Bryan Chapell

CROSSWAY BOOKS • WHEATON, ILLINIOS

A DIVISION OF GOOD NEWS PUBLISHERS

Using Illustrations to Preach with Power

Copyright © 1992, 2001 by Bryan Chapell

Originally published by Zondervan Publishing House, 1992.

Crossway Books revised edition first published 2001.

Published by Crossway Books

a division of Good News Publishers

1300 Crescent Street

Wheaton, Illinois 60187

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Scripture references marked nrsv are from the New Revised Standard Version. Copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

Cover design: David LaPlaca

First Crossway printing of revised edition, 2001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chapell, Bryan.

Using illustrations to preach with power / Bryan Chapell.—

Crossway Books rev. ed.

p.cm.

Originally published: Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-58134-264-0 (alk. paper)

1. Preaching. 2. Homiletical illustrations. I. Title.

BV4226.C432001

251’.08—dc21

00–012628

To my wife, Kathy,

whose love secures our family

with such strength

that I am able to embark on

projects such as this.

Acknowledgments

Thanks for this work are extended:

To Covenant Theological Seminary, which has given me the great privilege of teaching others the wonder of preaching the Word of God.

To Mrs. June Dare, whose tireless secretarial efforts enable me to do so much more than I have a right to expect.

To my Sovereign Lord, who made me his child at the cost of his Son.