- Illustrations should: clarify, re-enforce, provide a time to 'catch your breath', reveal something of the preacher, arouse interest and recall attention, allow an appeal to the emotions, and recognise various learning styles.
- Illustrations fail when: too vivid, does not illustration the point made; inaccurate and distract, used in the place of careful explanation of scripture, and too complex.
- Two applications point that should be in every sermon - faith and repentence (see Acts 20:21).
- Prepare well in advance so you have time to mediate on it, to apply to yourself, and to use personal experiences as illustrations.
- 3 aims of a sermon: to humble sinners, exalt Saviour, and promote godliness.
- The first 50 years are the hardest
John Chapman - Illustration and Application
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