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* Year at a Glance overview

* Lent, Holy Week, Advent overview planners

* 4 pages (8.5"x11") for each sermon project
      - identify text, theme, sermonic goal
        - decide how to preach: inductive, deductive,
          first person dramatic, blended.
        - expository, topical series, blended.
        - space for noting key biblical words & meanings
          with their significance for your message.
        - space for developing outline & message points.
        - space for noting relevant biblical measures,
          customs, geographical features that may bear
          upon the text you are preaching.
        - page for jotting down illustrations & applications.

At last! a dated planner for doing the "rough in" work of sermon construction for the entire year.

Bound in durable composite cover material, with a double-comb wire binding, The Sermon Sketch Book - 2008 Edition © is the perfect workbook for prayerfully planning & developing the year's sermon calendar. Ideal for the new pastor just beginning to set the preaching habits of a lifetime. Also good for those who've been at it longer and know they need to re-establish a more methodical approach to planning. We know who we are...

The more we plan, the less we stress and the freer our heart and mind are to reflect on life-changing applications of the texts we are teaching on. The further ahead we plan, the greater opportunity we have to pray as the messages are developed.The further ahead we lay out the plan, the more likely we are to recognize apt illustrations, the significance of information we come across everyday. I call it "percolating", just like brewing a good cup of coffee. When I'm several weeks ahead or several months, my mind and spirit are "primed" and I am more alert to see how everyday events and reading can serve as powerful and effective illustrations of the messages God is giving me. Applications tend to be less superficial and hurried. (Sometimes I refer to this process as "composting". The result and dynamics are the same!).Haven't we all experienced how difficult it is to make meaningful application as Friday (or even later) is bearing down upon us? Yet that same message, whose exegetical nuts & bolts may have been technically accurate, could have been so much more effective if we hadn't had so little time to really reflect on how to connect it with your congregation right where they live.

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