Too many Biblical preachers do a great job of creating sermons that are faithful to the text, but they can’t craft sermon outlines that won’t bore your church. The audience will need extreme motivation to listen, something few church attendees bring on Sunday. So, we’ll look at putting together an outline that hearers will naturally want to listen to since the preacher figured out how not to bore…

In our last post in this series, we examined the third step of creative digital sermon preparation using Logos Bible Study (partner link to Logos). In that step, we discussed asking interpretive questions and then focused on word studies in Logos. Now, let’s turn to answering these interpretive questions using the Logos Bible Study Platform. Consider this part two of the third step. You’ll use…

Do you need help proving your sermon ideas with skeptical listeners? This post on one of the 4 essential parts of sermon development will do just that. We've also got some good deals on Logos Bible Software.

In your sermon development, you should include 4 essential elements: explanation, illustration, application, and a fourth one that too many preachers leave out. We call it either argumentation or proof. Each kind of sermon development answers a question: Explanation: What does that mean? Application: Why does it matter to me? Argumentation or Proof: Is that true? Illustration: What does that…

Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash This week’s gospel may be the most important story in the gospels that never gets talked about. Which, is kind of weird, right? It has action. It has miracles. The disciples are amazed. It is exactly the kind of story that should get remembered. But it also has a “vibe”. A kind of don’t-know-what-to-make-of-it thing. I bet we aren’t sure what part is…