Friday, March 14, 2008

SID: Free "Sermon & Illustration Database" Software

While "googling" for a replacement copy of my favorite sermon illustration software, Bible Illustrator 3.0 Deluxe from Parsons/QuickVerse, I stumbled across SID, a free sermon and illustration software program. (SID is an acronym for Sermon and Illustration Database.) After reading about it, I decided to download and install SID. I played around with it for several hours and found this free database program to be user-friendly and functional.

SID allows you to store, sort, search, view, copy and print (among other things) the biblical illustrations and sermons that you have been collecting. Written as a "front end" program for Rev David Holwick's "Kerus Database," SID comes with a database that contains one sermon and one illustration.

To use Rev Holwick's "Kerus Database," you will need to visit his website, however, you do not have to download and import his databases to use SID. Instead, you can download this free program and immediately begin storing and organizing your own collection of illustrations, quotes, sermons, studies, etc. SID can be a great asset for anyone discipling teens. To learn more about this useful electronic sermon and illustration filing program, visit jesusplusnothing.com.


NOTE: Parsons/QuickVerse stopped selling Bible Illustrator 3.0 Deluxe several years ago. Its replacement, QuickVerse Sermon Builder 4, has little resemblance to Bible Illustrator 3.0 Deluxe and was a disappointment for me.

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