I help pastors unfold the organic gospel outline already embedded in every text. Founder, Cross-Tethered Preaching, the PPGR Preaching System®, and Preach360™.
Evaluation is the path to progress.
Paste or upload today's sermon notes, and get a 9-point diagnostic assessment with specific steps for making progress next week.
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Second-guessing your sermon for tomorrow? If it's blurring and you're starting to panic, use four questions for gospel clarity.
If you need help, it's all built into the Preach360 sermon studio.
Pastors are farmers and sermons are seeds.
Seeds germinate underground, out of sight.
So as we sow from week to week, let’s not mistake slow growth for no growth.
A pastor nearing burnout started using Preach360. He says, "This is the first time in 18 years that I look forward to sermon prep."
Burnout often results from a lack of direction more than a lack of devotion.
With a clear process, the stress lifts and the joy returns.
You don't need to cut a new trail every week.
Just follow the blazes clearly marked in every text.
🔵 Principle: What is the truth in the text?
🔴 Problem: How and why do we resist the truth?
🟡 Gospel: How did Jesus fulfill the truth and redeem our resistance?
🟢 Response: What grace-motivated, Spirit-empowered change is possible?
You don't need to invent a new sermon outline every week.
Just unfold the four marked blazes.
You don't have to prep alone.
In this video, I walk through how to set up your own personal "mentor circle" in Preach360.
It's a simple, practical way to gain trusted wisdom as you prep your next message.
Sermons are like steaks.
They need time to marinate. That’s why the 3-block prep method has your draft done by noon on Wednesday.
𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝟭: Pour the foundation
𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝟮: Build the structure
𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝟯: Seal the cracks
If you need help, it’s all built into the 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝟯𝟲𝟬 sermon studio. And/or join our next 𝟴-𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁.
Every preacher grows the same way. Honest feedback, one Sunday at a time.
Small steps forward, week after week, add up and make a big difference.
So, paste your notes, run the diagnostic, and now exactly what step forward to take this Sunday.
If you want this week's prep to have instant traction with a clear goal and step by step process, without prompting AI for content, join me for our next Preach with the Power of ONE live event.
📆 This Wed at 11:00 AM ET | 8:00 AM PT
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The PPGR system uses a "relevance bridge" in the sermon intro to connect the original recipients' need for grace to our need today, making the biblical text immediately applicable to listeners' lives.
It's all built into the Preach360 online sermon studio.
The quickest way to get traction for Sunday is to pick one word on Monday.
Combine that word with the organic, gospel-shaped outline already embedded in the text, and you'll have the message done by lunch on Wednesday (without burning out or selling out).
You don't need to feel buried under a pile of biblical data that you don't know how to put together.
You don't need to keep re-outlining all week.
Too many of us allow Saturday to arrive with anxiety rather than rest, as we find ourselves second-guessing everything and rewriting into the night.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
I'll show you in our next 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗡𝗘 masterclass.
📆 Wednesday, Oct 21
⏰ 11:00 AM ET | 8:00 AM PT
When you remove the guesswork, the stress lifts and the joy returns.
Register here for the free event: tinyurl.com/powerofone-oct21…
An expository keyword is like a drill bit that penetrates the text all the way down to new life in the Spirit. It guides your study and frames the sermon, guaranteeing you don't just preach 𝙩𝙤 the cross, but 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 it.
All you need is one expository keyword to uncover 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 of any biblical text.
𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝟭: the core truth in the text (principle)
𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝟮: our resistance to the truth (problem)
𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝟯: Jesus' fulfillment of the truth for us (gospel)
𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝟰: how we can walk in the truth by grace in the Spirit (response)
If you're interested, I'll be expanding on this in next week's "Preach with the Power of ONE" masterclass.
We start with the power of one expository keyword.
Finish your sermon in Preach360, then (with one click) create Sunday school lessons for every age (pre-K to high school), small group studies, family devotions, social posts, and more, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘯.
One sermon. Churchwide discipleship.
Unintentional moralism is possible when we present sermon application before we've tethered listeners to redemption.
That's why the PPGR framework presents application 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 the cross.
Application before the cross is a law we cannot fulfill.
But seeing Jesus fulfill the law for us turns application from a law obligation to a gospel opportunity.
Here's how it works.
When you follow the theological DNA of any text, you simply move...
1️⃣ from the 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 of the text,
2️⃣ to our flesh's 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 to the truth,
3️⃣ to how Jesus 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 the truth in our place,
4️⃣ to how the Spirit 𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 us by grace to live in the truth.
If this is new for you, I'd love to show you how it works on a real text. Join me for the next free 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗡𝗘 master class.
For instant momentum with your sermon outline, start with the first domino.
This domino simply states the core truth in the text.
Then it leans into the second domino by addressing the human condition. Then into the third domino by highlighting the cross of Jesus, and finally into the fourth domino, new life in the Spirit.
That is the simple structure embedded in every single biblical text.
So you don't have to invent a new outline every week.
Just unfold the one that's already there.
Want help? Join the next free masterclass.