Category: Podcast
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Chad Brooks
Chad Brooks hosts a few podcasts of his own, so he is no stranger to the process as he joins us from Monroe, LA. Chad tells us why index cards make the best bookmarks, how he gets big on digital and little on paper, and why his preaching pits “What is?” vs. “What could be?”…
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Joe Thorn
Joe Thorn takes a break from final edits to a tardy book manuscript to describe how he seeks to balance law and gospel in each sermon, how they make it a priority to develop new preachers in their young church, and how the most impressive beard in Sermonsmith history is a reminder of a significant…
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Mike Baker
Mike Baker joins us from the edge of Normal. He tells about his stacks of old sermon outlines that he never looks at, the importance of writing something worthwhile everyday, and how he preaches to an empty auditorium every week. http://media.blubrry.com/sermonsmith/audio.sermonsmith.com/2014/14-Mike_Baker.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More
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Mia Chang
Mia Chang tells us about how prayer is integral to her sermon preparation, how she transformed from a didactic to a prophetic style of preaching, and how she preaches in a multi-cultural congregation. Oh, and she mentions how her family hasn’t always been the best place to go for reviews of her sermons. http://media.blubrry.com/sermonsmith/audio.sermonsmith.com/2014/13-Mia_Chang.mp3Podcast: Play…
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Philip Nation
Philip Nation tells us about how he manages weekly sermon preparation alongside a full-time job, five questions he always asks about his outline, and he’s already thinking about next week’s sermon on the way home from finishing his last sermon. And you don’t even want to know about how he spends his Tuesday lunch. http://media.blubrry.com/sermonsmith/audio.sermonsmith.com/2014/12-Philip_Nation.mp3Podcast:…
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A.J. Swoboda
A.J. Swoboda joins us from Portland(ia) and describes his hard drive full of pericopes, how he begins his sermon preparation by thinking about his context, and why you will never ever see him anywhere without his handy Moleskine. Resources and links mentioned: Portlandia Martin Lloyd-Jones Sermons John Stott Sermons Follow @mrajswoboda About AJ A. J.…
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Tim Keel
Tim Keel, of Jacob’s Well church, joins us from Kansas City with much goodness to share about his sermon preparation workflows in our longest interview to date. He shares about the importance of good tools to capture ideas, the value of regular study leaves, and his need for tacticity (yes, I may have just created…
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Mandy Smith
Mandy Smith is our conversation partner this week as she discusses her unexpected journey to being a lead pastor, the shortage of good examples to learn from for women who preach, and how her own work as an artist has helped shape her sermon preparation. http://media.blubrry.com/sermonsmith/audio.sermonsmith.com/2013/8-Mandy_Smith.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts |…
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Matt Tebbe
Matt Tebbe settles in front of the mic in the shadow of the Fighting Irish. He tells us how his primary role as a spiritual formation pastor shapes his preaching, how sermon preparation is as much about paying attention as it is about time, and how he’s learned the hard way that his preaching is…
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Gideon Tsang
We remain in the friendly confines of Austin, TX for this interview with Gideon Tsang, the pastor of Vox Veniae. Gideon shares how mornings are more valuable than afternoons, how preaching should be considered as performance art, and how he finds great creative freedom in his self-imposed structures. (I did my best to track down…