by Justin Trapp | Sep 25, 2019 | Sermon Prep, Social Media
I have spent a lot of years preaching, crafting messages, researching, and leading a church. I’ve also worked alongside pastors just like me who know what it’s like to be bogged down in the details of all that goes into sermon planning. So much so that you can easily...
by Justin Trapp | Sep 17, 2018 | Sermon Prep
If you’re like me, the hardest part of sermon preparation is the blank page. What do I talk about this Sunday? What passage should I teach through? I quickly found that planning out my messages with a yearly preaching calendar not only eliminated this headache, but...
by Justin Trapp | Jul 13, 2017 | Sermon Prep
In 2015, Microsoft studied the human attention span and found it shrinking below the levels of goldfish. Microsoft assembled a team of researchers, neurologists and psychologists to extract the data with a methodology that was tightly focused on the trends....
by Justin Trapp | Jun 19, 2017 | Preaching, Sermon Prep
Every week, pastors research, study, write, and deliver a sermon to their congregation. Every week. Then, just mere hours after they finish this process, they begin writing a new sermon for the very next Sunday. It’s a rinse and repeat cycle that can be greatly...