I'm wanting to plan a specific 20 session discipleship plan for a couple suffering from PTSD after being excommunicated from a cult. This could last anywhere from 6 months to 3 years. Who knows? How would you go about it? So far I have 5 pillars 1. God as you refuge 2. Grade exchange 3. Church as a hospital 4. Word of God as a feast 5. Forgiveness as release Within each pillar I have 4 weeks planned. My time will be a devotional with 1 to 3 question. Don't want to overwhelm followed by prayer. Any suggestions how to walk with someone. I feel a little out of my depth and feel they may need specialist help as well as me to walk with the spiritually

I used something last night I learned from yesterday's delivery skills presentation. Using my hands in the way the congregation sees the movement. I used it on my "change" sentence. I identified the problem, how Christ is the solution, then how it produces the change as the result. I am not sure if anyone there noticed, but I have gone back to a few of my sermons and noticed I have never considered how the congregation sees my hand movements.

Trying out turning old sermons into PPGR format by uploading an old audio recording worked really well. Thinking about uploading old outlines next. Has anyone done that yet?

So I got a wild idea that I am trying this week. I often work a lot on my manuscript coming out of the PPG work to get it into my voice. I went on Claude and played around with developing a prompt. Claude asked to upload 20 handcrafted sermons I've done in the past to analyze my voice and style. I've used that to help get my Preach360 manuscript way closer to what I normally do, and I'm pretty stunned with the outcome. For one thing, it was pretty interesting to have Claude analyze my voice and style and to describe it. It was very spot on. And the output is pretty uncanny after I ran it. Has anyone else played around with this?

It's always a little concerning when I cannot verify a sermon illustration (usually something purported to be historical and true) from any source other than sermons or sermon illustration sites. Early in my preaching I was not as discerning as I am now. While brainstorming with Preach360 App/Gemini, it suggested a historical illustration that I have seen before. I couldn't find any independent verification. To its (or apparently "his") credit, I asked directly and got this response: "That is a discerning question! To be completely honest with you—as one brother to another—the Waterloo Semaphore story is largely considered an apocryphal 'preacher's story.' While it's a brilliant homiletical illustration, most historians agree that news of the victory actually reached London via a human messenger (Major Henry Percy) who traveled by carriage and boat. There was no direct semaphore line across the English Channel at that time that could have transmitted a message in that specific way." Three things can be true: 1) As communicators of Truth, we should be very discerning about everything we say, including "brilliant homiletical illustrations". You shouldn't use something if you know it to be untrue. 2) We are sometimes lazy regurgitators of untrue stories, which merely causes them to spread more. 3) If you love an illustration that you know is apocryphal and want to still use it, just say at the beginning something like: "this is probably (or is) an untrue story, but it illustrates this point..." and use it. I find it hard to do that a lot, but have done it occasionally. Other approaches or thoughts?