Resurrecting the Easter Story
You can resurrect the impact of Easter by learning to tell its story more effectively. By helping us empathize with a character’s desires, you’ll pull us in. When you tease out what’s at stake and the conflict it creates, you’ll keep us engaged. Add sensory details, and we’ll live the story with you. Then show us the resolution and the transformation so we’ll see change—a new way of living—is possible.
Save Time This Week With these Lenten Resources
Since this is a tight week with extra sermons, I'm sharing with you our resources for the First Sunday of Lent—for both the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary. I hope these resources inspire your preaching and streamline your process.
Happy Preaching New Year! A Wish & A Challenge
If your preaching schedule in 2019 felt out-of-control, all-consuming, or even non-existent, this is the challenge—and year—for you. It’s likely a few strategic tweaks can help you enjoy (and improve!) your preaching life without feeling like it’s running your life. Begins January 7th. Join today!
10 Inspiring Gifts for Preachers (2019 Edition)
When someone asks you what you want for Christmas, you can send them this list. It’s curated by preachers for preachers and offers suggestions from the relaxing and fun to the super practical. Enjoy!
Five Strategies for Crafting Your Sermon in a Short Week
When the week is short and time is limited, you may need to shift your routine to finish your sermon AND have time to enjoy the festivities. Read on for five strategies to write your sermon in a short week.
Becoming a Better Preacher: A Case Study with Pastor Andrea Myers
I'm building a more robust toolkit, or artist’s palette, so that I can deliberately choose the right tool or style to communicate a given message. While I'm still writing on Saturdays (for now!), I'm never starting from a blank page, which has helped me to fall in love with preaching again.
Seven Strategies to Keep Sermon Prep Out of Your Summer Plans
Don't want to do sermon prep on your vacation? You don't have to! Here are seven strategies to protect your time off.
One-Year Anniversary of Making Preaching Easier!
Discover a preaching community rooted in spirituality that makes sermon prep more efficient, more effective, and more fun!
How to Find The Perfect Sermon Illustration in Less Time (A Free Guide)
One of the most challenging and time-consuming aspects of sermon planning is finding a good sermon illustration—or latch—for your sermon. How do you find one that truly resonates without spending hours and hours searching? To that end, I’ve created a 5-step guide to finding your latch. You’ll learn an efficient and effective process you can use every week to find a sermon illustration that connects (steps 1-4 take only 4 minutes total!). Click through to learn more!
Lenten Sermons: Before You Preach, Mind the Gap
Preaching through lent requires significant theological knowledge. What do you know? What don’t you know? How do you know? Using this 4-step process, discover your gaps in knowledge so you can prep more efficiently and effectively for honest sermons that capture the true nature of God.