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.
Advent Sermons: Quotes & Inspiration for You
Download your free collection of quotations and reflections to strengthen your personal devotions, journaling, and sermon writing as you prepare perpetually for the coming of Christ.
Plan Your Advent Sermons & Life (A Free Workshop Offering Hope in the Overwhelm)
As Christmas approaches, many stresses become more acute and frequent—like the pressure to produce high quality (though not-over-the-top-perfect) sermons, liturgies, and music; pastoral care needs; disagreements between church leaders; and the expectations of parishioners, your family, and, perhaps, even yourself.
To that end, I’ve already started preparing for Advent. As a result, I have lots of healthy food ready to eat, my office is a place I enjoy again, my calendar and to-do lists are manageable, and there’s plenty of open space for sermon prep.
If this sounds too good to be true, I assure you it’s not. It simply takes a decision to spend a bit of time now to free up a lot of time later.
If you can spare an hour, I can help you strategize your December for a season of calm, connection, and clarity.
Experiencing Sermon Prep as Respite
How do you shift? How do you experience more joy? How do you discover sermon prep as respite rather than a chore?
"It is more blessed to give than to receive," right?
Between Jesus's "It is more blessed to give than to receive" remark and our American ethos, we swallowed the idea that being independent, self-sufficient, and the one to offer help is superior to being dependent and asking for help. But we’re missing something important.
Reflections on the Spirituality of Preaching
Your life is always preaching. What is it saying?
How to Improve Your Preaching: Learning from the Masters
One of the best ways to improve a craft is to study and learn from the masters in the field. This week, we introduce you to three respected preaching teachers and invite you to join us in learning from them over the next few months.
How Your Sermon Language Shapes Your Community (A Guest Post)
There may be more than one way you and your community relate to one another depending on circumstances. It’s likely that sometimes you preach as an authoritative teacher, and sometimes you speak from your position as a fellow Chirstian. But then ask yourself: how does the way I talk about myself and my community in my sermon signal those relationships?
Preaching “God Loves You?” Don’t Miss The Essential Ingredient
What signs or symptoms or evidence can we offer that God’s love isn’t a made-up thing “to placate the masses”—or just make us all feel better?
What to Do If You Think Your Fellow Preachers Aren’t Doing Their Jobs
It came up again this week in light of the horrendous shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH. Some preachers are concerned their fellow preachers aren’t doing their jobs.