Monday: Select Scripture passage.
Tuesday: Exegesis.
Wednesday: Write rough draft of manuscript.
Thursday: Write final draft.
Friday: Go on date with wife.
Saturday: Practice sermon recitation up to 8x, bare minimum 4x.
How about you? What's your schedule?
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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I set out a preaching schedule about 3 years ago. I know the series that I will be preaching. This way I can be looking around for resources.
At 1-2 weeks out I begin to glean from the resources I have accumulated. This shapes what each sermon will look like but not any specifics.
Each week on Monday and Tuesday I am developing the outline. Thursday I try to have the outline rough drafted. Saturday night or Sunday morning I type out the outline.
4 weeks out - choose scripture and theme.
3 weeks out - worship order finished.
2 weeks out - read, reflect, and pray.
Week of - outline by Wednesday.
Thursday through Saturday - rehearsing and memorizing.
And the cycle overlaps, so that I'm (almost) always 4 weeks ahead.
Saturday 6:00PM--Select passage
6:30PM--Select hymns...call musicians
7:15PM--Eat Supper
7:45PM--Type up Bulletins while playing Yahoo Pool
8:30PM--Select iPod playlist which will accompany my sermon writing.
9:00PM--Check out the textweek link
9:30PM--Write a damn-good blog post about something completely different from my sermon topic
10:30PM--Sketch out notes for the sermon
11:15PM--Try out the intro, while playing Yahoo Pool.
11:55PM--Scribble out to-do list for Monday.
12:00AM--Take it to the Lord...and leave it there.
Sunday 7:30AM--Head to church to copy bulletins.
8:30AM--Head over to first church.
12:05PM--Shake hands at church #3 while everyone tells me how good my sermon was.
At this point, I have a sketchy text-based outline for the next few weeks. Last week, Gospel. This week, Gospel. Next week, Epistle. And the next, OT. But I don't have a Scripture passage selected more than a week beforehand. Maybe that can change after CPE is over.
lectionary
Sunday afternoon: brainstorm
Monday/Tuesday: pick text and begin exegisis
Wednesday: brainstorm illustrations, and if I'm doing really good start outline
Thursday: outline and first draft
Friday: practice and revise
Saturday: practice and revise more
Sunday: practice and revise and deliver
but I doubt this is the best way to do it...
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