The Sermon Planner

This practical outline provides a step-by-step plan for creating sermons that add to the worship experience. How To Use the Sermon Planner The purpose of the sermon planner is to provide the preacher with a simple and effective way of building the sermon. The sermon planner organizes the process of asking the most basic questions about the text and orders the way the preacher thinks about the persons to whom the sermon is delivered. Sermons grow. They start as the pastor prayerfully reads, studies, thinks, and meditates over the text and the needs of the people. Consequently a purpose of the sermon planner is to stimulate the preacher to think about the right kinds of questions that will result in an effective sermon. In addition a feature that makes the sermon planner so indispensable for the busy preacher is that it provides a handy and portable reference space where developing thoughts may be written down. With the sermon planner the preacher doesn't lose those flashes of i…