Sermon Prep Made Simpler #1: Preparation & Flow Of Thought | Pastor Lutzer

There’s hope when your congregants’ eyes start to glaze over! You can help your church members get all they can from the message. Pastor Lutzer guides you how to employ key words, giving an idea where you’re going in the sermon and how you’re going to get there. You’ll get step-by-step examples to help your congregation follow the text’s flow of thought and discover the Bible’s deep truths. Pastor Lutzer offer’s a method to make your sermon preparation simpler, as well as insights from his years of experience developing and delivering messages.
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[@EkNau]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 🔑 Sermon *preparation simplified: Focus on developing a unified, ordered, and progressive flow of thought.* 🔍 Finding *the "big idea" isn't enough; you need a method to develop and structure your sermon effectively.* ☕ A *meeting with a homiletics professor revolutionized the speaker's approach to sermon preparation.* 📝 Key *words are pivotal for structuring sermons, providing unity and coherence.* 💡 Examples *include using key words like "lessons," "barriers," "features," and "steps" to organize sermon content.* 📖 No *magic formula exists for selecting key words; it depends on the passage's direction and theme.* 🎯 Key *words guide the message, ensuring clarity and direction for both the speaker and the audience.* 🙏 Effective *sermon preparation involves both studying the text deeply and structuring it with clear, guiding key words.* Made with HARPA AI

[@jhonsilva2050]

gracias pastor Lutzer por compartir sus talentos para que la iglesia en otras partes del mundo sea edificada

[@zingyatshaiza4507]

Thank you, heavy burdens in my mind lifted . ❤

[@dave76920]

This was SO HELPFUL!!! I graduated from Gordon Conwell Seminary and I was taught the importance of having a single main idea (i.e. subject and complement). But a main idea cannot function or "preach" on its own. I believe the keywords are the highways through which the main idea (like a vehicle) can travel through. Thank you for this.

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Good observation about the relationship between the big idea and the main points. Thanks for listening. Keep preaching the Word in and out of season!

[@charleschilders6388]

Of the infinite blessings that Pastor Lutzer has given to me and the church, this 15 minutes is and will be to God's glory and man's benefit with immeasurable assistance to pastors. This talk is for this age and all the ages to come. Thank you, Pastor Lutzer. And thank you, Jesus.

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Glad this resource has blessed you Charles! Who would you say first encouraged you in ministry?

[@hildarodriguez9778]

Pastor Lutzer, love hearing your sermons. God has gifted you greatly in communicating His word, the Bible. Thank you.

[@Blessyouall]

Dear Pastor please accept my sincere and profound gratitude. These 17 minutes would surely help me save hours of preparation, over the period of time. God bless you today and always. Well I have a suggestion to make. You really didn’t have to restrict it to 15-17 minutes. Those of us who have benefited, I am sure, would have loved for you to practically share an outline, picking up a particular passage from the scriptures.

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Hi there! So glad this resource is a blessing to you. We have two more sessions in this series "Sermon Prep Made Simple." Here's part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npDXkneqpd14fNU Part 3: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6rFhXtjesx3bck

[@vladimirsavinov3932]

Thank you, brother! God bless you! Greetings from Russia!

[@williamcobbs3606]

Thank you pastor’s, give me more please, I need more that the Holy Spirit has given you, Amen.

[@robertwhitlock8336]

A breath of fresh air

[@nicholeclarke8941]

Thank you for sharing the wisdom which the Lord has given to you. Blessings, blessings, blessings!

[@AmeliaLCordeiro]

This video so far has been so helpful as someone who has a desire to minister to women. Also, I enjoy listening to you talk, your have a great way of speaking; it reminds me a little of my dad who is a minister as well. Thank you for this helpful video for effectively furthering the kingdom! 🙂

[@edlu4565]

This is really very helpful! Thank you Pastor Lutzer (and Perry).

[@listeningservantsministries.]

you just changed the way i write my sermons for good! i can't thank you enough for this video!

[@faithkaykambobe3512]

Concise approach to preaching 👍👍

[@mathewnielsen2110]

This is some great advice, loved hearing these thoughts. Really helping me refine how I communicate God's word!

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Glad these sessions are supporting you in ministry!

[@rickkelley2286]

Hello Dear Brother!! I believe I have all of your books, and I have to admit that I love them all. My wife simply loves your sermons too. This has been very helpful to me and perhaps will be more important to my congregation! Love to listen to Running to Win as well. You take care and God bless you and your family very abundantly!!!

[@DanAbsalonson]

This was so helpful! Thank you. I kept finding myself using the word "things" which gets old really fast and isn't very helpful. I have used this method in my sermons and it is a great tool and help! Thanks for taking the time to share and teach! Excellent lesson Pastor Lutzer.

[@PASTORJ880]

excellent, thank you for this!

[@Warriors_Garden_and_Workshop]

Excellent video Pastor Lutzer, and I found it at the perfect time, I have 2 sermons to deliver this month and really didn't like them as I had them constructed, this information helped me to immediately see what I needed to change to deliver the message I had in my mind

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Glad it was helpful! God bless you.

[@curtisbemis6640]

This is so helpful as a student it a wealth of knowledge .

[@eagle8189]

Great video! Thank you!

[@gregtaylor8193]

THIS IS EXCELLENT, IN ALL CAPS!!!

[@Humblebeginnings1986]

This was FANTASTIC!! Thank you Dr. Lutzer!!!😊

[@dorcasliu6345]

Thank you so much for the teaching! I am sharing it with my brother-in-law who started to pastor a church, and other people who preach occasionally. I have listened and benefited greatly from your teaching. I did hear the seriesTen lies about God and even printed out the script before I got the book😉. Wish you would preach more , and have new series coming up. I was sad when you decided to retire from the position of Senior pastor of Moody Church. Thanks again for your teaching, and please give us more of your teaching

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Thanks for your encouragement @Dorcas Liu! Pastor Lutzer continues to speak, write, and travel on behalf of The Moody Church as Pastor Emeritus since he changed roles in 2016. He doesn't plan to retire anytime soon! His successor to the role of Senior Pastor, Philip Miller, has been preaching on Sundays at The Moody Church with the same commitment to expository teaching. You can visit moodymedia.org to get the latest teaching and resources as well as 3+ decades of sermons available for free. You can also keep up with Pastor Lutzer's weekly video blog here: kzbin.info/door/1LXh-9ZXrWTrm3J5AQXG5g.

[@helmet12]

Wow. This was amazing. What a gift! God bless this brother!

[@somchatrittikai2478]

Thank you so much is very helpful , May The Lord bless you ministry .

[@picturepablo4918]

Thank you for this insight. It helped me greatly with my first official sermon to a room of evaluating Pastors. May God continue blessing you.

[@selvarajan207]

Wonderful message and thank you Pastor

[@DoctorRo116]

Thank you Pastor Lutzer.

[@fernandopowell1223]

Thank you so much for posting this!!!

[@JaymelM91977]

This is good.

[@ChristopherLScott]

This is great. Thank you.

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Glad it's helpful!

[@alfredoaraujo1340]

¡Excelente pastor Lutzer!! It's really useful God bless You!! Muchas Gracias

[@kamalouneche2037]

thank you Pastor for sharing with us, God bless you and your family.

[@johnellwoodtaylor4769]

Yes! I learned this as a “transition sentence quote as part of the proposition package. The proposition is restating the exegetical theme by way of a timeless truth. Then you present an interrogative and a transition sentence using the ‘plural noun’ to show how the passage will answer the interrogative based upon the proposition. Blessings! Preach with conviction!

[@drbasslessons6791]

🔥 love it !!!! Thank you so much

[@johanessambuaga]

Thank u.. so helpfull.. GOD BLESS U, SIR

[@jayviespinosa2308]

This is what I’ve been looking for, thank you for sharing😍How about an outline for parables please🙏

[@christianspiritualworldtam405]

Thank you pastor

[@chinoquant]

Great help, Expository Studying by Joel James is an excellent resource that is a free pdf and it covers this idea of plural noun propositions and how to analyze a passage. I hope it will be helpful to anyone wanting more! God bless you in your service to the Lord!

[@wickius12]

Thank you, brother!

[@andrewbradice8916]

Great a big help , thank you

[@TurtleOrTurtel]

Makes sense. Thank you

[@sleepwalker7755]

Excellent… thank you

[@raefernandez4115]

Thank you

[@klfalls1]

It was a good review of some traits of good sermons I've learned in the past. Your homiletical outline is very much deductive, that is it follows a deductive reasoning model. State a big idea and then support it with main points and subpoints from your exegesis, and illustrations and applications. I really favor this type of sermon for all the good reasons you gave. There are other preachers who give sermons that follow a more inductive (if you will, verse-by-verse) model. I would say someone like John MacArthur proceeds inductively, and is quite popular. So, would you say your "key word" style could work with an inductive type sermon? Explain how it could work.

[@cynthiatucker2147]

Thank you. It’s been hard to prepare especially when I don’t get the opportunity to preach often. This will be helpful because I get stuck with too many references and notes. 😊✝️🦋

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Glad it was helpful!

[@p_three_beatzproductions4479]

So is this just to get ideas on what you want to talk about in our sermons? I had to do an inspirational message today and at first I didn’t know how to put it together. I mainly used the word of God to support my key points

[@Eduardo_Lutz92]

Gracias, Pastor Lutzer! Me identifiqué con sus primeras palabras, tengo ese problema de Leer comentarios, contexto, palabras claves, etc... Pero me es difícil armar un sermón con unidad, orden y progreso. Esto es de mucha ayuda.

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Gracias por su comentario alentador Eduardo. Me alegro de que este recurso le haya sido útil en la preparación de su sermón. ¿Cuánto tiempo has estado sirviendo en el ministerio?

[@Eduardo_Lutz92]

@@MoodyChurchMedia en el ministerio tengo un mes, como pastor de una iglesia nueva, pero en la predicación tengo aproximadamente 3 años, aunque no predicaba cada semana, solo ocasionalmente, pero ahora tengo que preparar 3 sermones a la semana jeje Gloria a Dios. Saludos.

[@christianthings777]

Always a blessing hearing Dr. Lutzer. Is there any way you can share the other key words? I am sure there may be some that I may be able to use that are not quite often used.

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Hi there! Yes, please contact us at [e-mail] to receive Pastor Lutzer's list of keywords. Thank you!

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

@vflo, Pastor Lutzer also gleaned the concept of these key words from this resource: www.moodypublishers.com/biblical-preaching-for-todays-world/

[@SewingFaith]

Very helpful❤

[@vladimirsavinov3932]

Please, give your advice about useful book which explains idea about key word in plural number for development of big idea of sermon.

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

@vladimirsavinov3932, according to Pastor Lutzer, you can learn more in this resource: www.moodypublishers.com/biblical-preaching-for-todays-world/

[@vladimirsavinov3932]

Thank you!@@MoodyChurchMedia

[@DrJeffCrosbyMusic]

Thank you. Very helpful. Where can I find the page and a half of keywords you mentioned?

[@DrJeffCrosbyMusic]

abuses accusations acts actions actualities admonitions advantages affairs affirmations agreements aims alternatives angles answers applications approaches areas arguments articles aspects aspirations assertions assumptions assurances attainments attitudes attributes barriers beginnings beliefs benefits burdens calls causes certainties challenges changes charges claims clues commands commitments comparisons compensations compromises compulsions conceptions concessions conclusions conditions consequences contrasts corrections credentials criteria criticisms customs dangers decisions declarations defenses deficiencies definitions degrees demands denials destinies details devices differences directions directives disciplines disclosures discoveries distinctions doctrines duties elements encouragements essentials estimates events evidences evils examples exchanges exclamations exhortations expectations experiences expressions facets factors facts failures faults favors fears features finalities forces functions fundamentals gains generalizations gifts goals graces groups guarantees habits handicaps hindrances hopes hungers ideals ideas illustrations imperatives implications impressions improvements impulses incentives incidents indictments inferences injunctions insights inspirations instances instruction instruments intimations invitations issues items joys judgments justifications keys kinds laws lessons levels liabilities limits lists losses loyalties manifestations marks means measures methods mistakes moments motives movements mysteries names necessities needs notions objections objectives observations obstacles occasions offers omissions opinions opportunities paradoxes particulars parts peculiarities penalties perils periods phases phrases pledges points possibilities practices premises prerogatives principles priorities probabilities problems processes promises promptings pronouncements proofs prophecies propositions provisions qualifications qualities questions realities realizations reasons reflections refusals remarks remedies reminders requirements reservations resources responses restraints results revelations rewards risks routes rules safeguards satisfactions secrets sins sources specifications statements steps stipulations successes suggestions superlatives suppositions surprises symptoms teachings tendencies testimonies tests thoughts threats topics totalities truths undertakings urges uses values views violations virtues voices warnings ways weaknesses wishes words wrongs

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Hi there! Yes, please contact us at [e-mail] to receive Pastor Lutzer's list of keywords. God bless you!

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

@jeffreycrosby1557, in addition to the key word sheet Moody Church Media has available, Pastor Lutzer also recommended this book where the key words concept is elaborated upon: www.moodypublishers.com/biblical-preaching-for-todays-world/

[@noepena8004]

He's in haven whats?

[@MoodyChurchMedia]

Can you clarify your question please? Glad to help.

[@ATTSSYF]

Is it from you or from God…..number 1 sounds like it’s from you because God is suppose to give us the topic! Am i right? You don’t seem to have been called because you doing everything and was not lead by God in Christ Jesus Name Amen 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢🙏🏾🙏🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🙏🏿

[@charlesdavis1able]

You missed it completely that's why today's churches are in such a mess, I preached and pastored for years. If you want the Holy Spirit to be present and working in the service get on your knees with a humble and broken heart, and wait on God to give you the message He wants preached. You need a message from God's heart, not a put together man made sermon