Everyone loves a good illustration. And everyone needs to have interesting illustrations to help make a vital point come alive.
Not just preachers need illustrations but so do:
Sunday school teachers,
Youth and children workers,
leaders of Christian organizations,
writers and journalists, podcasters, broadcaster,
missionaries writing letters to supporters,
Christian teachers, professors, and deans,
committee chairmen and board members,
devotional speakers at church groups,
emcees at banquets,
camp counselors,
writers of promotion and stewardship letters and
gospel team speakers in nursing homes and jail services.
Every believer who would be a good communicator of the Christian faith and an effective conversationalist needs illustrations. 
This book describes the benefits of illustrations explains where to find them, gives cautions in using them, and outlines what to do with them when you find them.
The difference between acceptable and exceptional communication is often a good illustration that clinches an important truth in the listener’s mind for years.
This first illustration book is unique in that each illustration is taken from literature.  As a lover of literature, I have always believed that ministers do not use good illustrations from literature enough.  Here is a book that will give you good information to use in many different settings, and make you sound well read.