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What’s All This, Then?

SermonSmith is a bi-monthly conversation dedicated to the craft of sermon preparation. It is a celebration of the rhythms, workflows, tools, and prayers used by those who engage in this sacred art on a...

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How do you listen to podcasts?

How do you listen to podcasts?iOS appAndroid appWithin iTunesDirect download or embed from their websiteWhat iOS app do you use?What Android app do you use? The post How do you listen to podcasts?...

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J.R. Briggs

It was a pleasure to interview my good friend J.R. Briggs for the first show. I expected he would make my job easy with thoughtful answers, and that proved to be the case. About J.R. J.R. Briggs has...

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Steve Carter

It was a pleasure to interview Steve Carter. Hear how thoughtful mentors like Rob Bell and Mike Erre invited him into the world of preaching, how simple index cards help him structure his thoughts, and...

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Mike Goldsworthy

Mike Goldsworthy joins us from sunny Long Beach, California where he pastors Parkcrest Christian Church. Hear how Mike’s sermons develop from staff wide reviews of previous series to quick ideas tapped...

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Cyd Holsclaw

Cyd Holsclaw found an hour to escape from the rigors of her bivocational life as a home schooling mother to talk with us about preaching at Life on the Vine Christian Community in the northwest suburbs...

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Jonathan Dodson

Jonathan Dodson played the role of both host and interviewee as we held our first live interview in his soothing home office. He describes his weekly rhythms for sermon prep alongside the relational...

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Gideon Tsang

We remain in the friendly confines of Austin, TX for this interview with Gideon Tsang, the pastor of Vox Veniae. Gideon shares how mornings are more valuable than afternoons, how preaching should be...

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Matt Tebbe

Matt Tebbe settles in front of the mic in the shadow of the Fighting Irish. He tells us how his primary role as a spiritual formation pastor shapes his preaching, how sermon preparation is as much...

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Mandy Smith

Mandy Smith is our conversation partner this week as she discusses her unexpected journey to being a lead pastor, the shortage of good examples to learn from for women who preach, and how her own work...

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Tim Keel

Tim Keel, of Jacob’s Well church, joins us from Kansas City with much goodness to share about his sermon preparation workflows in our longest interview to date. He shares about the importance of good...

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Scott Jones

Scott Jones is the pastor of The Well in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia. Scott shares about the college of preachers at the Well, a team that participates together in developing their sermons...

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A.J. Swoboda

A.J. Swoboda joins us from Portland(ia) and describes his hard drive full of pericopes, how he begins his sermon preparation by thinking about his context, and why you will never ever see him anywhere...

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Philip Nation

Philip Nation tells us about how he manages weekly sermon preparation alongside a full-time job, five questions he always asks about his outline, and he’s already thinking about next week’s sermon on...

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Mia Chang

Mia Chang tells us about how prayer is integral to her sermon preparation, how she transformed from a didactic to a prophetic style of preaching, and how she preaches in a multi-cultural congregation....

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Mike Baker

Mike Baker joins us from the edge of Normal. He tells about his stacks of old sermon outlines that he never looks at, the importance of writing something worthwhile everyday, and how he preaches to an...

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Joe Thorn

Joe Thorn takes a break from final edits to a tardy book manuscript to describe how he seeks to balance law and gospel in each sermon, how they make it a priority to develop new preachers in their...

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Chad Brooks

Chad Brooks hosts a few podcasts of his own, so he is no stranger to the process as he joins us from Monroe, LA. Chad tells us why index cards make the best bookmarks, how he gets big on digital and...

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New Site. More Content. Same Purpose.

This weekend, I rolled out a new design for the SermonSmith website. While the original site served us well, it was pointed toward one goal — featuring one interview at a time. As Sermonsmith has...

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Keas Keasler

Keas Keasler is a preacher by day and a DJ by night in the heart of Miami. Listen in as he describes how he starts all sermon preparation with Lectio Divina, how part of his process includes “juicing’...

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