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I'm traveling to the beach with the family this week and will be off the grid most of the time. However, I want to make sure you're covered. So, while I'm on vacation, if you run into any technical snags, here are two quick ways to get help: - The Preach360 Troubleshooting Guide: I’ve put together a simple, step-by-step guide that covers the most common fixes (like performing a hard refresh to clear out "glitchy" cached data). You may access the guide here. - The In-App "Help" Button: Within the Preach360 web app, you can use the Help button to ask questions directly. It can even suggest specific solutions or help you reset your position if you feel "stuck" in a certain section. It will make a recommendation which you may approve or decline. If you still can't get the issue resolved, DM me here on Skool. I'll do my best to get back to you within 24 hours. Just in case... I recommend keeping a backup of your manuscript progress. I typically copy and paste to a Google Doc — just overwrite the previous version each time I paste the latest one. Hope this helps. Tethered to the cross with you, from the beach, 🏖️ McKay P.S. If you haven't tried the Preach360 web app yet, take it for a free test drive at preach360.com
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Welcome to the Preach360 Community! Our goal is to help you create margin for life & ministry by drafting biblically rich, gospel-focused sermons in a single afternoon with the Preach360 Sermon Studio, which guides pastors step by step through the sermon-building process using the PPGR preaching framework. ☕️ A COMMUNITY VS A LIBRARY Preach360 is designed to be a pastoral community, not just a personal library. Real growth happens when we learn together, share wins, acknowledge challenges, and genuinely engage with one another. To encourage participation, I'm going to use the "gamification" features built into Skool's "leaderboard," not to pressure anyone, but to facilitate connection in a fun way. How to Level Up on the Board. It’s simple. Introduce yourself, ask questions, and encourage others. Engagement is our way of ensuring this remains a vibrant, supportive fellowship of pastors, rather than a quiet library. 👋 IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW ME My name is McKay Caston. Over 30 years as a pastor, author, and seminary professor, I've served churches of different sizes in urban, suburban, rural, and college-town contexts, with my last pastoral call as a church planter in Dahlonega, GA. My life mission is to help pastors preach cross-tethered sermons and live cross-tethered lives. I've been married for 35 years and have three adult children. When not here, I enjoy time at home and hiking the mountains of north Georgia. 🚦 Basic community "guidelines." 1. This is a safe place. 2. This is not a place for political rants. 3. Be constructive. 4. Honor confidentiality. 5. No solicitation or spam. HERE ARE YOUR NEXT STEPS: ✅ Step 1: Introduce yourself in the comments section below 1. Who are you & where are you serving? (City/State/Country) 2. What is your current preaching context? (Solo pastor, church planter, staff, student?) 3. What is your biggest challenge with sermon prep right now? 4. Drop a link to your church website and/or sermons (optional).
Mother's Day Sermons Anyone?
Anyone preaching a Mother's Day-focused sermon this Sunday? What's your text?
How to Access a Circle of Mentors in Sermon Prep
Imagine having a row of theological giants and trusted mentors sitting in your study, ready to look over your sermon manuscript and give you tailored feedback. Yesterday, I met with someone who is exploring how to use AI prompting to access theological works online to provide deep analysis and help for sermon prep. It got me thinking about how we can leverage Preach360 to bridge the gap between deep theological study and the weekly rhythm of sermon preparation. If you want to sharpen your message and dig deeper into the text, you don't have to start from scratch. You can invite your favorite historical or contemporary mentors into your study. For example, when you're wrestling with the Problem movement of your sermon, you want to dig down into the heart of human resistance to the Principle. One of the most prolific authors on the nature of the human heart and the sinfulness of sin is the Puritan John Owen. Instead of just wishing you had time to comb through his collected works this week, you can bring his perspective directly into Preach360. Try asking it a prompt like this: "Based on John Owen's collected works in this area of understanding the sinfulness of sin, how would he analyze my manuscript so far? In this text, what suggestions would he have for how I can more accurately and helpfully identify resistance in this sermon?" I actually ran my own sermon from last week through the John Owen perspective in the Problem section, and it was absolutely unbelievably helpful. I’ll be doing that from now on, no doubt. Customizing Your Study Circle The beauty of this approach is that you aren't limited to one voice. You can curate a virtual circle of mentors depending on which movement of the sermon you are developing: - For counseling the heart in the Response, you might ask for an analysis from someone like Larry Crabb to help expose underlying brokenness and motivational roots. - In the Gospel movement, you might ask how Tim Keller would approach unfolding the beauty of the cross and the finished work of Jesus from your specific text.
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Which PPGR movement is most challenging for you?
Of the four PPGR stages (Principle, Problem, Gospel, Response), which one requires the most wrestling for you on a weekly basis, and why?
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