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.

We've been working hard behind the scenes to make Preach360 a more powerful, seamless tool for your weekly preaching ministry, now for prep and beyond. Here is what's new this week: (1) FULL MOBILE RESPONSIVENESS Preach360 is now fully optimized for your phone or tablet across all panels, in both portrait and landscape modes. (2) THE SERMON REPURPOSING SUITE You spend hours crafting a message. Now, you can easily extend its life beyond Sunday morning. We’ve added a complete suite of tools to turn your sermon into church-wide weekly discipleship resources. With one click, generate content based exclusively on your sermons for: - Small Group Study Guides - Sunday School curriculum for all ages: Pre-K-1st, 2nd-5th, middle school, and high school (print one or a complete packet) - Family Devotions for the entire week - Social Media Posts - SEO Sermon Summaries ALL BASED ON YOUR SERMON. Bring Any Sermon: You aren't limited to sermons built in the app. You can now use an outside sermon as the source text for repurposing. Total Editing Control: We've integrated a Rich Text Editor and the ability to save manual changes across all content panels so you can revise everything before downloading. (3) THREE COACHING LEVELS You can now select your preferred level of coaching guidance (beginning, intermediate, or advanced) as you work through the sermon builder. (4) AUTO-GENERATE SERMON SLIDES You can now instantly pull presentation slides straight from your sermon material. (5) CHOOSE MULTIPLE SERMON TEXTS The Sermon Setup now allows you to input between 1 and 3 foundational texts for your message. (6) GLOBAL TRANSLATION UTILITY Pastors around the world can now use Preach360 to draft and preach in their native language. (7) AI ASSISTANCE LEVELS AND WORD COUNT Tell the system exactly how long you want your draft to be, and dial the AI assistance up or down based on your preference. (8) LEGACY SERMON CONVERSION IN YOUR VOICE The legacy conversion process is now directly connected to your voice profile. When you run an old sermon through the PPGR conversion, it will use your words in your voice.

Saw this in a post by pundit Larry Elder today. "What do you actually think? If you have nothing worth saying, technology won't rescue you. If you do have something worth saying, technology becomes a force multiplier, enabling you to communicate more clearly and more efficiently." Thought about its application to the on-going debate on whether Ai has a use in the church. I think it sums up well what Preach 360 is attempting to do.

It's Wednesday. I hope you've made good progress for Sunday. 😃 If you have your text, keyword, and PPGR outline and you're willing to share it, post in the comments below. Let's see and celebrate our progress together!

My last study went well; however, I know that if I shaved off 5 minutes of information, it would have hit the congregation better. I have a roadblock in my mind, that if I deliver a sermon under 30 minutes, I am not serving the people as well as I should. But I know that my last study, could have shaved off some details for clarity. I once looked down on the 25-minute sermon, but I am starting to learn, that may be the best pocket for me as a preacher/teacher. Anyone else struggle with this?