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Jonathan Daniels posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
In reply to: Jonathan Daniels posted an update in the group Constructing the Sermon: Here’s a question for those of you who are pastors who preach every week: How do you schedule your week so that you have adequate study time? ViewThanks, Kent. That’s a great idea…will see if I can begin implementing it in some way in my present ministry setting.
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Jonathan Daniels posted an update in the group
Constructing the Sermon: 11 months, 4 weeks agoHere’s a question for those of you who are pastors who preach every week: How do you schedule your week so that you have adequate study time?
I like to start three weeks out. In a given week I will be doing exegetical work (”discovery”) on one sermon, sermon construction on a second, and delivering a third. That way my sermons have a much lomger gestation.
Thanks, Kent. That’s a great idea…will see if I can begin implementing it in some way in my present ministry setting.
I was always taught this two-weeks prior stuff. Honestly, it worked for one week. I have a hard time cultivating that. I read the texts for the week several times on Monday. Usually by Tuesday I have a good notion of the passage I will be preaching on – to which I go an make my notes about the passage. On wednesday I cultult Commentaries.…[Read more]
Kyle, that sounds pretty much like my routine. I can’t keep it all in one pile if I try to schedule three weeks out like Kent does. Too many unforeseen things like hospital visits, funerals, and other day to day events in the life of a pastor. However, I will say this. If it works for Kent, that’s the route he should follow. We all have…[Read more]
Also key that you start preparation early in the week as other pastoral issues and meeting can take you away from the study and the sermon preparation. It is easier when in a settled ministry to do a series through books of scripture where you have a lot of the spade work done early. No one preaches the perfect sermon, pray & reflect as to what…[Read more]
I too have aspired to Kent’s three week process. Hasn’t happened that often for me. I’m still going to try. I recommend an idea from Rob Bell’s stuff (whatever you think of Rob Bell, he’s got some great ideas on preaching) – its from his preaching conference called “Poets, Prophets and Preachers.” The session is called “Radar, Buckets,…[Read more]
I study every day, pray every day, I don’t necessarily study for the sermon right a way, but God seems to bring it all together after I know the subject that I plan to preach on. I have had sermons prepared and when I get up to preach, God takes me in a different direction but it usually comes from my recent studies. I can’t explain it, it just…[Read more]