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Every sermon has an afterlife.
Whether you intend to leave something behind or not, something becomes of your words after the preaching moment ends. The images you chose, the theology you assumed, the claims you made about who God is and how God moves in the world. All of it plants seeds. And those seeds take root in the lives of real people who are about to walk out the door and live your sermon into reality.
For those of us who preach beyond the boundaries of an ongoing pastoral relationship, that's a weight worth sitting with.
As a guest itinerant preacher, you are a temporary participant in a community's ongoing faith formation. You will cross the threshold, deliver the Word, and go home. But your sermon won't leave with you. So the question isn't just what you're going to preach. It's what world you're going to leave behind when you do.
After the Sermon is a resource designed to help you think about that afterlife before you ever step into the pulpit.
Built to follow your initial biblical and congregational exegesis, this resource guides you through mapping your sermonic afterlife, helping you think intentionally about the language, images, and ultimate claims you're crafting and the world those choices will create long after the benediction.
This is for the guest preacher. The associate minister, the evangelist, the missionary, the revivalist. Anyone who has ever stood before a congregation that wasn't theirs and wanted to do it with integrity.
You've already done the exegesis. Now let's talk about what comes after!
Every sermon has an afterlife.
Whether you intend to leave something behind or not, something becomes of your words after the preaching moment ends. The images you chose, the theology you assumed, the claims you made about who God is and how God moves in the world. All of it plants seeds. And those seeds take root in the lives of real people who are about to walk out the door and live your sermon into reality.
For those of us who preach beyond the boundaries of an ongoing pastoral relationship, that's a weight worth sitting with.
As a guest itinerant preacher, you are a temporary participant in a community's ongoing faith formation. You will cross the threshold, deliver the Word, and go home. But your sermon won't leave with you. So the question isn't just what you're going to preach. It's what world you're going to leave behind when you do.
After the Sermon is a resource designed to help you think about that afterlife before you ever step into the pulpit.
Built to follow your initial biblical and congregational exegesis, this resource guides you through mapping your sermonic afterlife, helping you think intentionally about the language, images, and ultimate claims you're crafting and the world those choices will create long after the benediction.
This is for the guest preacher. The associate minister, the evangelist, the missionary, the revivalist. Anyone who has ever stood before a congregation that wasn't theirs and wanted to do it with integrity.
You've already done the exegesis. Now let's talk about what comes after!