ZAHN is a multi-purpose tool for managing quotes, illustrations, documents, books, and other media. For anyone who has ever led a Bible study, preached a sermon, or has had a lot of content they want to manage, ZAHN is the right tool.

Store, organize, search, track, and record all your illustrations, quotes, poems, songs, articles and books!

For anyone who buckets of valuable information scattered throughout their computer...ZAHN software has created a program that will save you thousands of hours by allowing you to store, categorize, and retrieve every article, book, illustration, or quote you own. With ZAHN you can create your own categorizing system or use one that we already created for you, which you can easily edit to your liking.

"Dear Friend, For almost 10 years I have stored thousands of articles, illustrations, quotes, and books. But zeal turned into frustration when I needed to find a certain article or when someone asked to see all my books on a certain topic. If you're in ministry-whether vocational or volunteer-you know what I'm talking about. After hundreds of hours in research, we couldn't find a single program that allows you to store, edit, manage, sort, categorize, and customize your own database of illustrations, quotes, references, articles, sermons, and web links with the simplicity and ease that we needed." -Seth Kniep, Public Speaker

• The keys to having good illustrations are continual searching, constant collecting plus filing, easy retieval, and keen discernment to select just the right illustration. (Mayhue, 249)
• The supreme test of a sermon is whether or not it communicates F.D. Whitesell
• The three 'undervalued' components of expository sermon preparation include...illustrations (Mayhue, 247)
• History indicates that preachers have used sermon illustrations for more than two thousand years. (Chapell, 166)
• The emphasis that writers of Scripture place on illustrations should be a most compelling motivation for us to walk in their footsteps. See Isaiah 20, Amos 5, Exekiel 1 (Mayhue, 248)
• Illustrations exegete Scripture in terms of the human condition creating whole-person understanding of God's Word. They are essential to effective exposition not merely because they easily stimulate interest, but also because they expand and deepen our understanding of the text. (Chappell, Using Illustrations, 11-12)
• Passionate preaching must have light as well as heat. The preacher must explain as well as apply. Hence. there exists the need to illustration, to add light to the subject. Illustrations are the windows to the discourse-they shed light on the subject being discussed. (Montoya, Alex. Preaching with Passion (Kregal Publication: Grand Rapids: MI) 142)
• Illustrations help to enliven an audience and quicken their attention. Charles H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954), 351.
7 Purposes for Using Illustrations:
• 1. To interest the mind and secure the continuing attentions of the audience.
• 2. To make our preaching three dimensional and lifelike.
• 3. To explain Christian doctrine and duties in a clear understandable manner.
• 4. To communication convincingly to those who respond better to pictures than to facts.
• 5. To ensure that the message is unforgetable.
• 6. To involve all the human senses in the communication process.
• 7. To catch the hearing of the disinterested.
(Mayhue, 248) Chapell, Bryan. Christ-Centered Preaching. Baker Books: Grand Rapids: MI. Richard Mayhue, "Introductions, Illustrations, and Conclusion," in Rediscovering Expository Preaching.

ZAHN is a multi-purpose tool for managing quotes, illustrations, documents, books, and other media. For anyone who has ever led a Bible study, preached a sermon, or has had a lot of content they want to manage, ZAHN is the right tool. With ZAHN you can manage information in three essential ways:

• Classification: ZAHN allows you to classify quotes, illustrations, sermons, books and more into topics, categories, filing systems, Bible verses, and common other data types.
• Search: in ZAHN, finding what you’re looking for is never hectic. ZAHN includes a wide range of retrieval tools such as advanced search, data sorting, data filtering, verse search, and even an online search. Search results appear instantly right in front of you.
• Retrieval: With ZAHN, accessing quotes, illustrations, sermons and even books online or offline is merely a click away. All your entries can be easily picked under their appropriate subjects.

Add, edit, manage, sort, and categorize your illustrations, stories, quotes, articles, sermons, references, web links and your entire library of books. Create and edit your own topical system and store all your entries by topic, Bible reference or entry type.

Lightning Speed
Many shortcut keys
Drag entry to any category
Add multiple categories at one time
Add entry under multiple categories at one time
Right click context menu
Single click for copying entries into your word processor
Quick searching and keyword lookups
Bible verse lookups

User Friendly
Entry-adding wizard
Identify entry type by icons
Search entire database with multi-level search tool
View entries by fully expandable and contractible topic or Bible reference
Spell checker
Record all your speeches including title, date, location, text, and audience
Search speeches and sort by any category
Tag illustrations and quotes to speeches you’ve preached
View related entries and keywords for each entry

Professional Interface
Unique graphical interface that is easy on the eyes
Zoom control for changing the font size
Live counter displays the number of topics and entries in your database
No annoying window overlapping. Work using your entire screen.

Bonus Features
Import another user’s entries into your own file to build up a massive entry database
Record entry source including title, author, publisher, and page number
One click button feature for adding all resources to your library bookcase
Create, save, and manage multiple database files
Fully formatted entry content editor
Intelligent auto-loading of last database at program startup