Watching It Grow Up

I thought it might be interesting to follow my sermon preparation process for an upcoming series. It will continue to morph from day to day as I work through each passage. Sometimes a change in one sermon will necessitate a change in another and often they are influenced by circumstances and events throughout the week. Feel free to comment. Who knows, you might provide my next sermon illustration.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Harder Than I Thought

Turns out it is much more difficult than I thought to bring you on this journey. I realize now that I use a combination of written and electronic forms in my preparation and it takes an enormous amount of time to back enter the handwritten notes. In order to make this work, I am going to have to modify how I do things. I think I will switch from the spreadsheet to a document per sermon quicker. It becomes unwieldy after column three.
I will need to provide links to multiple files - I will have to work that out. Also, It becomes tedious for you to have to go look at largely unchanged documents just to see what has been modified, so I am going to start making changes in different colors, however, periodically I will reset all colors to black (maybe weekly).
The next step is the collection of scripture cross references and illustrations. These will fill pages and pages and most of it will not be pulled into the final product.
That last two days I have made little progress. There have been numerous distractions at the church office. Without a secretary to protect me (mostly from myself), life gets hectic. Today I will relocate to The Daily Grind, a local coffee shop with WiFi, and hopefully finish the power point rough draft. Essentially, that means the sermon is done. I just need to "beautify" it.

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