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.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Slideshow for Sept 13 and thoughts about the current series

This link will take you to the slide show for this sermon. I hope to have the others up and in progress so you can see the progression. I've been so busy. It makes it difficult to let you see what is happening since instead of working on it gradually over the week, I am slamming out huge chunks in 3 or 4 hours of dedicated time. I'm going to try to keep the revision history in the links box until after I deliver the message - then I will only keep the final.
What I'm still not getting out for you is the revision process - that thought changes that happen along the line as I pray and consider which parts of the passage I am using will be high lighted.
Since I am dealing with such large chunks of scripture, there is the potential for 8 to 10 different topical treatments of the passage. Staying true to the stated them is sometimes an impediment. On the one hand, it is freeing; I only have to develop the single consistent theme and gather illustrations along one thought. On the other had, sometimes the passage contains a message that I feel is needed and timely even though it doesn't fit the current theme.
I'll keep praying and being as candid as possible during the development of each sermon. Please feel free to comment.
Make sure you display the speaker notes. That is where the sermon content is. You will find it under Actions in the bottom navigation bar.
Alien Culture Power Point - Sept 13

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