LAST CHANCE! Reduce Stress – Maximize Creativity – Honor God All Year!

Yesterday’s webinars were a great success!  And if you missed out, don’t worry!  Today is your LAST CHANCE to register. There’s still space available for today’s and tomorrow’s webinars – “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar“. The first one today starts at 11 a.m ET, but I also have two time additional time slots for 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET. … Read More


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Let’s Plan Your 2014 Preaching Calendar Together – FREE Webinars Today, Wed and Thurs ONLY!

Today I am excited to do the first of 9 webinars I’m leading called “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar.” My bestselling “Planning a One Year Preaching Calendar” resource lays out the principles of how to plan your preaching a year in advance, but this week I want to go a step further! That’s why I’m doing this series of webinars for pastors called “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar,” where … Read More


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Reaching Unchurched People through Your Preaching

This week I am emphasizing the importance of planning your preaching.  I want to encourage you to start looking at your preaching calendars and, if you haven’t done so already, start planning for your Fall Sermon Series.  The Fall is typically one of the best times of the year to maximize your outreach to the unchurched.  People are getting back … Read More


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The Purpose of Preaching

  This week I am going to share with you tips on developing your preaching calendar.  This has been a growing area for me at the Journey as we have innovated some ways to plan our preaching and to plan our preaching together as a teaching team. It is really an interesting thing that we do as pastors, because we … Read More


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Let’s Plan Your 2013 Preaching Calendar Together – FREE Webinars Tues, Wed and Thurs

You’re invited to join me this week on one of 8 free webinars I’m leading called “Planning Your 2013 Preaching Calendar.” After coaching more than 1,100 pastors over the last few years, I’ve learned that one of the best tools for reducing your stress, maximizing creativity, honoring God and working with the natural patterns of your people is planning your preaching calendar months … Read More


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How to Reduce Your Stress and Maximize Your Effectiveness [Free Preaching Webinars]

I consider it an honor and a tremendous blessing that God has allowed us the opportunity to invest in church leaders each and every day through the ministry of Church Leader Insights. With several thousand pastors in the Church Leader Insights family, you might imagine that I get to hear from a lot of them (and I really enjoy hearing … Read More


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What Makes A Great Sermon Great? Abraham Lincoln’s Opinion…

I just finished reading John Maxwell’s new book, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, and I’ll be talking about it in a future CLI Newsletter (you are getting the newsletter aren’t you? if not, click here). Here’s a powerful story that Maxwell shares in this book: President Abraham Lincoln, an incredible communicator, was known during the Civil War to attend a church … Read More


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FDR on Sermon Preparation…

I ran across this story in a book I was reading recently and I think it has great application when it comes to planning and preparing to preach: Franklin Delano Roosevelt was once asked how long it would take to prepare an address on a particular theme. “That depends on how long you want me to speak,’ the President answered. … Read More


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Your Preaching Calendar Questions – Summer Sermon Series?

Q: You mentioned doing a series during the summer that isn’t sequential.  Can you elaborate on what that looks like? A: The basic concept is to do a number of messages that can be combined under the same title, but that don’t build on one another from week to week. Essentially, you should do a series that is made up … Read More


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Your Preaching Calendar Questions – What to Promote

Q: How do you balance promoting a new sermon series with the current sermon series? A: I use the word “promotion” to refer primarily to external promotion, or promoting a message series to the people in your community. Most of this type of promotion is reserved for your Attraction series (or at least those with attractional titles). Think from the … Read More


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