Roadmaps, GPS, and Instructions
Here's the roadmap. The purpose of the Poitras Ponderings Podcast is to provide encouragement, edification, and exhortation to all of us on the Christian journey in whatever stage or role we find ourselves in on the trip.
a. So, if you are wondering what I’m up to, or aiming at, that’s it! I know it’s broad but I’m not a very good archer so I need a big target for ultimate success.
b. Everyone likes to start out on a trip knowing the destination and the stopping places along the way.
c. Otherwise, like it was said in Alice in Wonderland, I believe: "if you don’t know where you are going any road will take you there."
2. So, I want to give you a heads up on what will be happening in PPP World over the next few months.
3. Illustrations. I used to visit different events and conferences in Africa and would start my speaking with, “I have a story!”
a. Mixed in there somewhere was “Whether in the spirit or out of the spirit I cannot tell OR whether here or there I cannot tell.”
b. The PPP producer/engineer and his good wife probably remember both of those little tidbits.
4. So, we are embarking on an illustration-driven series of podcast episodes.
a. Pulling some of my favorite memories from the past, presenting them in the present, promising to be a blessing to your future.
b. I know they say illustrations shouldn’t overpower your preaching or teaching or speaking.
c. But illustrations open the window for an understanding of whatever topic is being hammered a way at. They help us drive a well driven nail into whatever is being said.
d. Illustrations can be remembered long after all the details of the message are gone and can remind you of what the point was in the first place.
“In many ways the success of preaching depends upon the success of the illustration. An idea without an accompanying illustration is like an airplane without wings; the idea is not going to fly. The most successful preachers soon discover that illustrations have a way of personalizing the message, of attaching an address to it. As preachers, when we fail to use illustrations, it's the same as writing a lengthy letter but failing to address the envelope before mailing it" (W. Floyd Bresee).
