A-Z Sparkling Illustrations: Stories, Anecdotes, and Humor for Speakers - Softcover

Gaukroger, Stephen; Mercer, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801090385 ISBN 13: 9780801090387

Publisher: Baker Pub Group, 1997

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Book Description
Two prominent British preachers and authors have gathered a fresh collection of illustrations for use in sermons and speeches. The adages and anecdotes, which use wit and humor, are arranged alphabetically under a variety of useful categories.

In addition to the collection of illustrations, stories, and anecdotes, readers will find four essays on the art of using illustrations and stories. In successive chapters, they consider topics that often give speakers some difficulty: finding and using illustrations, humor and the Bible, good and bad uses of humor, and the art of storytelling.

The authors have collected both older and current material that will prove useful to pastors, speakers, and teachers who seek to interject an element of tasteful humor into their presentation. They also bring the perspective of a British tradition that rings fresh to an American audience.

A few of the shorter entries:

- "A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." (Winston Churchill)

- "A vicar was asked to take the funeral for a non church-going parishioner. 'We want a nice Christian funeral,' the family said, 'but nothing religious.' "

- "Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Honor it! Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Abandon it!"

Stephen Gaukroger has written several books and has served as a pastor in England. He serves as co-editor of the "Baker Bible Guides". Nick Mercer is the assistant principal and director of training for the London Bible College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Baker Pub Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801090385
• ISBN 13: 9780801090387
• Binding: Paperback