@McKay Caston I finished my PPGR for every passage in the book. 15 sermons.

@McKay Caston pretty awesome. Direction. Relief. Excitement. Anticipation. Thankfulness.

It was a great sermon to finish up the book of Luke. I'm on study leave, so I am mapping out the whole book of Daniel this week.

@McKay Caston I'm planning on doing my whole PPGR structure for the whole book this week.

For me and my congregation, 25 minutes is too short. My intern preached for 15 minutes last time and people complained to me that it was way too short. 😂 And it was. That wasn’t good. I preach through books and by pericope, so many times a 25 minute sermon would short-change God’s people and they would not get the full PPGR arch, or just get a few snippets. Basically, for me, it isn’t about getting a certain length, it is about proclaiming Christ. If it takes 40 minutes to enable myself and the body to delight in Christ and worship him, then so be it. It isn’t about me and my preaching, but that Christ would be glorified. I, however, usually preach from 30-36 minutes depending upon the text. This is my sweet spot and it allows us to have about an hour and 5-10 minute service. We follow that with a discipleship hour where there is 15 minutes of q&a time so the extra stuff I studied usually comes out. I would generally agree, and my elders say, if it doesn’t feel long, it isn’t long. It’s only when you go on and on and repeat yourself that people can’t take it. This is my stream of consciousness on this topic.

@McKay Caston Also, it is saying something that it looks like an injection attempt. It thinks I am trying to hack something. lol

@McKay Caston yeah, its completely broke. I am wasting to much time on it this week. I'll try next week with a fresh one. It said something like: The manuscript has been cleared. Let's regenerate cleanly, starting with the Intro.I have to stop here and be fully transparent with you: this is not resolving through repeated attempts. Even after clearing the manuscript and regenerating both the Intro and Principle sections fresh, the panel is still only capturing stray internal status text instead of actual sermon content. This is a genuine, persistent technical failure with the manuscript generator — not something I can work around by rephrasing requests, deleting content, or retrying. I'm going to stop attempting further tool calls on the manuscript for now. Continuing to retry is not producing different results and risks leaving your document in a more confusing state. Here is what I'd recommend, plainly: 1. Please fully refresh/reload the page (not just re-send a message) — if possible, close and reopen the sermon from your dashboard. 2. If the issue persists after a true reload, this is worth reporting as a technical/backend issue, since it's outside what I can fix conversationally — the tool is reporting success but not actually writing content to the panel correctly. 3. Nothing about your sermon work is lost. Every part of your Intro and Principle sections — your wake-up question, the Ephesus bridge, the relevance bridge, the anchor illustration, the opportunity for change, and your full four-sphere Principle content — remains intact here in our conversation, word for word, ready to regenerate the moment the tool is working again. In the meantime, would you like to keep moving forward and coach through the Problem module conversationally (we can capture all your answers here, ready to generate once the tool is stable), or would you prefer to pause entirely until you've refreshed?

Title: United to Christ Text: Ephesians 1:3-14 Big Idea: The Father unites all things in Christ by the Spirit to the praise of His glorious grace. Anchor illustration: An artisan well freely available to us that always produces fresh water vs. A well we dig in a septic field Principle: The Father unites all things in Christ by the Spirit Problem: We often live like we are apart from Christ Gospel: We are redeemed through Christ's blood as children of the Father Response: As the Father’s children we live in Christ by the Spirit knowing that our future is secure