ArticleBlog | Painting with words: using illustrations in preaching | Issue 06
Painting with words: using illustrations in preaching | Issue 06
Author: Tanya SteadPost Date: 09.04.25
IT’S OK TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR PAST
One of the major challenges I had when I first got saved was giving up on novels. I could read novels nonstop. I read Gone with the Wind in 48 hours straight. I am not joking. I loved to read stories about people, places and events, and when I got saved, I would still hide to read these books as my church then didn’t want anything read except the Bible or Christian books. Problem was, most of those books weren’t telling stories. Thank God I eventually did find several Christian books that shared stories and had loads of testimonies in between the hardcore teachings. Testimonies are stories about how we made it through difficult and trying times. We overcome by those testimonies. How? We are telling others that if we came through the issues, they too can overcome by the power of the Lord.
People like to read a book or hear a sermon that makes them connect to the writer or preacher and that makes them feel that we are real people who are just privileged and called to be passing on divine truths to our audience. There are many reasons why I believe that the Bible is the Word of God, but most especially what draws me to the Holy Bible is that those who wrote the Bible were real people. They talked about their good days, their bad days and their in-between days and shared how Almighty God delivered
