{"id":197,"date":"2014-07-29T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:52","slug":"someone-will-pay-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/29\/someone-will-pay-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Will Pay the Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone will pay the price for your sermon.<\/strong> Either you pay the price in preparation or the people will pay the price on Sunday. Here\u2019s a couple things I do to \u2018pay the price\u2019 so the people of New Day don\u2019t have to:<\/p>\n

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  1. If I\u2019m teaching on divorce for example, I will look up all the verses in the Bible that relate to divorce. Then I\u2019ll usually read a book or two on divorce. Then I\u2019ll usually listen to a sermon or two by other preachers that have taught on divorce. This of course requires you develop a preaching calendar so you know what you\u2019re speaking on way in advance – but I\u2019ll cover that in another post.<\/li>\n
  2. Once I\u2019ve compiled and organized everything I\u2019ve learned into a helpful teaching, I preach my sermon to my staff on Thursday at 1pm (late enough in the day to give me more time to work on my sermon if it\u2019s not quite ready, and early enough in the day to have time to make tweaks after I get feedback). After I get feedback from my staff I make tweaks.<\/li>\n
  3. I\u2019m off on Friday and Saturday. I don\u2019t do anything on Friday because that\u2019s my Sabbath Day\u2019s rest, but on Saturday I will review my message anywhere from 1-3 more times. Often, as part of my Saturday review, I will also break down each point into a blog post (I then share each post with our church via Facebook throughout the week as a way by which I can reinforce the lesson from Sunday).<\/li>\n
  4. On Sunday morning I\u2019m up between 4:30am and 5am. This gives me time to review the message two more times before I head to the church for setup at 7:30am. This is also when I type up the outline of my message (this is what I actually preach from). After we pray together I head upstairs to review my message one final time while the staff and New Day Crew work together to set everything up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You shouldn\u2019t practice your sermon on your people! \ud83d\ude42 My method of preparation ensures the message is practiced, at a minimum, six times (1x on Thursday, 2x on Saturday, 3x on Sunday). There is nothing worse than listening to someone who is staring at their notes the whole time, but with as much review as I\u2019ve just mentioned, you won\u2019t have to. Again, someone will pay the price for the sermon. Either you pay the price in preparation or the people will pay the price on Sunday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Someone will pay the price for your sermon. Either you pay the price in preparation or the people will pay the price on Sunday. Here\u2019s a couple things I do to \u2018pay the price\u2019 so the people of New Day don\u2019t have to: If I\u2019m teaching on divorce for example, I will look up all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-preaching","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}