Effective preachers will also include these four sermon development strategies to help their hearers understand, believe, and apply the text.
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7 Best Apps for Writing Sermons Digitally
What are the best apps for writing sermons? We have a bunch of options in 7 categories for sermon writing tools.
What Do We Mean by Creative Digital Sermon Preparation?
In our series on Creative Digital Sermon Preparation, what do we mean by “creative” or “creativity”? This post answers that part of the equation.
How Use Logos Important Passages Guide to Create Sermon Series
How can preachers us the Important Passages Guide in Logos 8 to help them craft exciting sermon series on a given topic in the Bible? We’ll show you how.
Discover the Bible Text’s Big Idea: Step 4 in Creative Digital Sermon Prep
We’re looking at the 10 Steps of Creative Digital Sermon Preparation in Logos Bible Software, and it’s now time to discover the Bible text’s Big Idea on our way to preparing an expository sermon. Many preachers will call this main idea the thesis, the textual ideal, or the sermon idea of the text. “Big Idea”…
7 Great Sources for Sermon Illustrations
Do you need to find the perfect sermon illustrations to bring life and grab attention for the message for modern-day listeners with limited attention spans? I do and so I seek them from many sources, but a few websites help me find them. In the old days preachers would sometimes find sermon illustrations by consulting…
Logos Sermon Prep Part Five: Taking Notes for Observations and Questions
Logos Bible Software helps preachers and teachers prepare their messages thanks to some useful Logos sermon prep tools, but the Notes feature gets more use than any other feature besides offering a library of Bibles, books and reference books. I use Notes extensively for the following: Recording my thoughts about a text. Keeping rack of…
Logos Sermon Prep Part Four: Text Comparison Tool in Inductive Bible Study
The next step on Logos Bible Software Sermon Prep helps us actually learn what the passage we’ve selected means by reading it repeatedly using the Text Comparison Tool. We’re talking about Inductive Bible Study. What is Inductive Bible Study? The phrase Inductive Bible Study refers to studying the Bible hoping to discover the meaning of…
Logos Bible Software Sermon Prep Part Three: Concordance Tool
We’ve already looked twice at the topic of choosing a text, but let me take a third swing at a tool that you should consider using for Logos Bible Software Sermon Prep. We’ll take a look at the Concordance Tool in this third part of the series. I began looking at picking topics and picking passages…
Using Scrivener to Write Sermons
Preachers use different tools to write their sermons, from Microsoft Word, a simple text editor, word processors built into Bible software or something like Scrivener. Wes Allen, one of the Theotek Podcast contributors and American Baptist Church pastor, uses Scrivener to prepare his sermons. We talked about his workflow and why he uses the program…