Sermon Illustration Library

111 Illustrations

About This Site

What This Is All About

The Sermon Illustration Library is a community-driven library that organizes illustrations by a label system. Many times, a particular illustration is applicable to more than one topic. Not only that, but one person might think of an illustration as relating to one topic, while someone else might have an entirely different take on it.

Enter the label system. Every illustration is assigned to one or more labels. When you're looking for an illustration for a particular topic, simply find the appropriate label. Any registered user can add or delete labels. That way, every illustration can be categorized in the best possible manner.

In addition, users are encouraged to add illustrations and expand the library. And there's a restricted mode for copyrighted illustrations that you don't have permission to post. (Of course, users have to be able to access the illustration somehow. If you write your own illustration and don't post it somewhere on the Internet, you shouldn't use the restrict feature.)

Anyone may browse, search, and view illustrations. Registered users can add and remove labels on all illustrations. They can also add illustrations and edit illustrations that they submitted. Of course, registration is—and will remain—free.

Submission Guidelines

The following are guidelines for submitting illustrations to the library:

Illustrations must reflect a Christian, biblical worldview. They should, at the minimum, be in harmony with the following beliefs:
- The Bible is the inspired word of God, and is the Christian's sole rule of faith and practice
- God is all-powerful, all knowing, infinite, and holy. He exists in three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit.
- Humans are sinful and in need of salvation
- Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus' atoning death on the cross, and is not dependant on human works
Illustrations must not infringe on copyright. It is the responsibility of the person posting the illustration to ensure that any necessary permission is obtained. When it is not possible to obtain copyright permission, the illustration still may be posted if the copyright restriction checkbox is checked.
No vulgar, profane, or illegal content may be posted; nor may anything that is out of harmony with a biblical worldview be posted

Privacy Policy

The Sermon Illustration Library values your privacy. There are many websites that collect personally identifiable information about their visitors without their visitors' knowledge. But we believe in full disclosure. Here's how we use your information.

Personal Information

In order to provide the service, we need the following personally identifiable information: your name and your e-mail address. Of course, if you choose not to register, we don't need any personally identifiable information. The only information we collect is listed in this section.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by many websites. We only use cookies to enable logging in. If you disable cookies, you won't be able to use any features that require registration/logging in.

Logging

In order to help prevent abuse, we log the following actions:

Adding, editing, or deleting an illustration
Creating, assigning, removing, or deleting a label

The log contains your user ID and IP address, as well as details of the transaction. In addition, our server logs all requests, using the information your web browser sends to it. This information is used only for usage statistics.