Preaching Through Efficient Sermon Prep

Описание: What if you could prepare a faithful, compelling sermon without losing your whole week to it?

📥 RESOURCES
8-Hour Sermon Prep Process Training Day, https://faithfruit.link/qnc5yn
Designing Your Ideal Week Training Day, https://faithfruit.link/3li7bg
Sermon Architecture Simplified Training, https://faithfruit.link/u25algn
Illuminate Sermon Illustration Library, https://faithfruit.link/x1tn3p

Most pastors spend at least 8 hours on sermon prep, but does 10 hours or 15 hours actually make your sermon proportionally better? In this episode, we're unpacking the systems, rhythms, and strategies that let you prepare excellent sermons efficiently — so you have time for everything else you're called to do.

This isn't about cutting corners or phoning it in. It's about eliminating the work that doesn't move the needle so you can reclaim your life.

In this episode, you'll discover:

How a preaching calendar 6-12 months out becomes your biggest time-saver (and why you're probably not doing it)
Why most pastors rebuild their process every week—and how to stop
The power of capturing sermon ideas, illustrations, and resources months in advance
How to protect your sermon prep time and actually keep those boundaries
The surprising way that bringing other people into your prep saves time in the long run
Why artificial deadlines make you more productive, not less
What "good enough" actually means (and why it beats perfect)

The goal isn't to shave down hours for the sake of efficiency. The goal is to work with rhythms and systems that let you be faithful to Scripture, fruitful in your ministry, and present for the other people God's called you to shepherd.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
0:18 Welcome
2:00 Prep & Preaching?
5:46 A "Good Enough" Sermon
7:29 8-Hour Sermon Prep Training Day
https://faithfruit.link/qnc5yn
8:30 The Preaching Lab Cohort
https://faithfruit.link/i51rgll
10:53 Nuances of Sermon Prep
12:13 Sermon Calendar
13:30 Organizing Ideas & Illustrations
18:54 Weekly Rhythms & Schedule
https://faithfruit.link/3li7bg
26:36 The Prep Process Itself
29:38 Sermon Research
32:20 Making Deadlines
39:08 Recap
40:10 You have to get more efficient
41:02 Are you bi-vocational?
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42:27 Ending

Season 5, Episode 6 | Preaching Through Podcast

What's one change you could make to your sermon prep process this week that would save you time without sacrificing quality? Drop it in the comments — we'd love to hear what you're experimenting with.