What is an anchor image you've used recently that you found helpful? How did it carry the passage from beginning to end. Examples of these cases really help new folks see what anchor illustrations are and how they work. I'll go first. In a sermon on Psalm 51, I used the image of someone knocking on the front door while you're sorting dirty laundry in the den. What do you do? Hide? What if you could be free enough to open the door and say, "Come on in, excuse the mess." This carried because I was able to come back to the image over and over, the emotional issues related to it, and the concrete action of opening the door. The mess is real. Confessing the mess is hard. Jesus comes in to clean the mess for us. Now, we can be real, confessing the mess but celebrating the one who bore the stench in my place.

No doubt some of you heard Claude is placing an invisible watermark on all of their output, including even if your work is only checked for grammar. Are the preach360 generated manuscripts and outlines considered "AI generated"? If so, this could be a problem for me, as I share my notes with media and our translation department. I do not want to be accused of having AI produce a sermon for me.

Hey, everybody! I would love to hear how Sunday went. - What went well? - What will you try differently this coming Sunday? - Any questions, thoughts, reflections, or questions?

Hey everybody! To enhance our live weekly experience, I am turning Office Hours into Live Coaching Workshops (and moving the day to Wednesday). In the workshop, I will walk through a new PPGR sermon, showing you exactly how I would develop it. I'll focus on the macro, and where you have questions, we can explore micro elements. Hopefully, it will be a fast-paced, engaging demonstration, not a slow, boring presentation. 🙂 Ideally, we will save time to workshop your own Sunday messages. It will be on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time vs Tuesdays to give you more time to be ready to workshop your PPGR statements, keywords, etc. I personally am really excited about this and hope it will be a valuable hour in your week. The Zoom link is in or on the calendar event page here. Until then, may grace abound, McKay

Here's an interesting tool to evaluate your sermon manuscript, if you do what is often referred to as "scripting" or writing the way that you speak. While my sermon never sounds exactly like my manuscript, I do write the way I speak. Writing for the ear and the eye are very different and thankfully no one is judging my grammar! https://www.jeravalue.com/en/text-music From that website: "Each sentence is highlighted by its length so you can see the rhythm of your prose — a wall of one colour is monotony; a healthy mix is music." Simply paste your text and it will show you the rhythm of the writing. Whether in your writing or not, rhythm and variation of it in your preaching is important homiletical technique, in my opinion.