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
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
How to Save Yourself Hours of Planning– Starts Tomorrow!
I’d like to invite you to join me for an upcoming “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar” webinar that starts TOMORROW! This webinar will help relieve your stress and increase your creativity by planning your preaching. I’ve just added a few upcoming times on three different days – Tomorrow, November 12th, November 13th and November 14th. These are the same webinars, … Read More
Nine Simple Steps to Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Preaching
I want to help you double the effectiveness of your preaching with a simple nine-step process. One of the first rules actors learn is to speak the words of a script out loud before they go into an audition room. Why? Because no matter how many times they run through their part in their head, no matter how well they’ve … Read More
Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Preaching -Part 1
Does your congregation remember what you preached last Sunday? How about the Sunday before that? I don’t want to burst your bubble, but numerous studies over the years have shown that people forget the majority of the information they hear from a communicator within 24 hours. As pastors, most of us have fooled ourselves into thinking that our preaching is … Read More
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
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
How To Be Creative With Your Preaching This Summer (Part 2)
As part of your creative summer series planning, try tying in fun events to complement your teaching. For example, during the God On Film series, we have weekly “play groups” available where people can go see one of the featured movies with others from the church, and then grab dinner to discuss it. This goes hand-in-hand with your creative outreach. People will want to … Read More
How To Be Creative With Your Preaching This Summer (Part 1)
Summer is the time to be extra creative in your message planning. You have the freedom to intentionally teach on topics that will draw a crowd. Around The Journey, we always plan this kind of “attractional series” for the summer, in an effort to reach people who may not otherwise come to church. Each year we do a series called … Read More
NEW Sermon Series – Teach Your People How to Face Life’s Storms!
One of the most helpful and well-received sermon series we’ve done at The Journey this year was called “Unshakeable Faith.” And now I’m excited to let you know that the full, six-part series (and everything you need to teach it at your church) is available in the Church Leader Insights Store. Here are the details: Teach your people how to … Read More