It seems to be important that when we evangelize and engage in apologetics to communicate as clearly as possible the concepts of Christian truth or the reasoning for our defense and refutation. Thus, apologetics illustration seems to be important in the apologist’s toolbox.

The following are twenty apologetics illustration I’ve thought might be helpful that I’ve written up on over the years.

I’ve tried to include illustrations also touching on facets of Presuppositional apologetics as taught by Cornelius Van Til.

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #1: Motorcyclist dies while protesting without a helmet against helmet laws

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #2: The school bell that was a bomb and importance of being able to identify bad doctrines

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #3: Attacking Corporations and Banks while depending on Corporations and Banks to even attack it

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #4: Why we question alleged disproof that mathematics or Christianity are not true

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #5: Blackouts and one’s dependence on Electricity and man’s dependence on God

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #6: Ethics based on observation of animals and Cannibalism among Polar Bears

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #7: Irrational nature of sin and the wanted Taliban who turn himself in for a reward

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #8: Ethics based on observation of animals and the additional example of cannibalism by Praying Mantis

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #9: Bad excuses for rejecting Jesus and Christianity and the analogy of dental care

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 10: Rejecting Christianity because of bad religious leaders and the analogy of rejecting dental care because of a bad orthodontist

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 11: Using Rights to Hand Guns While Critical of Rights to Hand Guns

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 12: Secret Service do train with false currency as well with true currency

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 13: Extra in a War Film And the Folly of Humanism

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 14: Trancendental Arguments and Chelsea Clinton’s Suicidal Argument

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 15: Beware of parasitic false teachers and Polyergus breviceps Parasitic ants

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 16: Bad foundations of worldviews and Louisiana Sinkhole

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 17: Self-refuting arguments and Soviet Anti-tank dogs

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 18: Don’t believe Oxygen exists? What If The World Lost Oxygen For 5 Seconds

Apologetics Sermon Illustration #19: Rescued Hikers arrested and Sin and Problem of Evil

Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 20: Torching A Safe Full of Fire Works and Self-Destructive Arguments