It is not good that preachers should prepare their messages alone. It was Tuesday morning—another blank-slate start to preparing next Sunday’s sermon. I hoped to have the message done by Thursday or ...

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In sermon prep, we discover that we need God’s message as much as anyone. Every week pastors around the world set aside time to prepare sermons. We stare at the blank document on our word processor, ...

"I'd like to come observe your sermon-writing process one day." Still draped in his choir robe, the parishioner expressed his wish while in the hand-shaking line after worship. I was surprised, then I ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After two decades as a bi-vocational senior pastor and 27 years in ministry, Shane ...

In my experience, I have found that all of life is preparation, preparation for what is “coming down the road” in our journey of life and faith. In the church year, there are seasons of preparation — ...

A local pastor typed the Bible chapter of Philippians 2 into his computer and several topics popped onto the screen — humility, unity, servanthood. The historic Lewis and Clark expedition, ant ...

How long should a sermon be? The major branches of Christianity in the U.S. have sharply different traditions, with sermons at historically black Protestant churches lasting — on average — nearly four ...

The cursor zips across the screen in the video introducing me to AI sermon tech. I watch as a preacher selects a quote from a list and then adds a “social starter” to the page. The sermon manuscript ...