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Simplify your process, renew your confidence, and supercharge your enthusiasm — with a comprehensive, step-by-step system for building sermons that change lives.

08/25/2026

A gospel-shaped sermon outline is already built into the text.

When you see it, you’ll never struggle with sermon structure again.

After all, the DNA of Scripture—Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration—is embedded in every single passage.

Because that DNA is already there, you don't have to invent a structure from scratch. You simply unfold four redemptive movements:

1️⃣ Principle (Creation): What is the core truth?

2️⃣ Problem (Fall): How does our flesh resist it?

3️⃣ Gospel (Redemption): How did Jesus fulfill it for us?

4️⃣ Response (Restoration): How does the Spirit empower us to live it?

Notice these aren't isolated points. They are interconnected movements.

The Principle sets the stage. The Problem introduces the tension. The Gospel provides the hero. The Response shows what new life looks like in union with Jesus in the power of the Spirit.

Here is a simple example from Isaiah 55:8–9 ("My ways are higher than your ways..."):

🔹 PRINCIPLE (The Truth): God’s ways are better than our ways.

🔹 PROBLEM (The Tension): Our fallen flesh thinks our ways are better than God’s ways, blinding us with anxiety and self-reliance.

🔹 GOSPEL (The Turn): Jesus perfectly walked in God's better ways for us—even when they were the harder ways (the way of the cross).

🔹 RESPONSE (The New Life): In union with Jesus and empowered by the Spirit, we get to surrender our own plans and demands and walk in God’s better ways with trust, rest, and peace—even when those ways are the harder ways.

This framework takes the unnecessary weight of invention off your shoulders.

You don’t need to invent the outline. Just unfold it.

When you preach with the Bible’s own sermon outline, prep feels lighter, your messages become clear, and your people encounter the transforming power of the gospel every single Sunday.

This process is built into Preach360™, the online studio version of the PPGR Preaching System®.

You'll not only frame your message with the Bible's built-in outline, but you'll fill in all the gaps from intro to conclusion, developing a full manuscript that preaches the fullness of grace in every message.

08/24/2026

What's your preaching target for Sunday? And how will you hit it?

Discover how three angles of grace serve to focus every sermon to achieving the ultimate goal of every message.

But what is that goal? And what are those angles?

Join me for 3 1/2 minutes and you'll have a clear target for Sunday.

08/22/2026

Does your outline for tomorrow still feel too complicated?

The temptation is to panic and start over.

Don’t scapt it. Do this instead.

Simplify your entire manuscript in the next 20 minutes by filtering it through four questions.

1️⃣ What is the core, essential truth this text is teaching?

Say it in ONE sentence and make everything else yield to it. Consider this your main idea of the message.

2️⃣ Why do we resist this truth?

Answer this in ONE sentence. Consider addressing the under the waterline motivations, idols, and unbelief (flesh) as the source of resistance.

3️⃣ How did Jesus fulfill this truth in our place?

This is the turning point. Answer this question in ONE sentence using transfer or exchange language. Consider describing how the cross rewires the heart from religion to grace.

4️⃣ How does the Spirit empower us to live this truth?

Now that they are resting in grace, what does it look like to walk in union with Jesus? Answer this question in ONE sentence as well. Consider providing a real life example.

Principle. Problem. Gospel. Response.

Now you have clarity from which you may now organize everything else.

If it doesn’t fit under one of those four sentences, then it doesn’t get in the sermon.

Let me know how it goes!

If you need help, it’s all built into the Preach360 online sermon studio.

08/21/2026

Structuring a sermon shouldn’t be a struggle.

The reason sermon prep often feels so heavy is that we believe we have to invent a unique sermon structure from scratch for every sermon.

But that isn't just exhausting.

It's unnecessary.

What if you didn't have to invent an outline?

What if the structure is already there, just waiting for you to uncover it?

As you know, the Bible isn't a collection of random, disconnected moral lessons.

It is one unified, redemptive story.

That means every biblical text possesses an embedded, gospel-shaped DNA that naturally mirrors Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration.

You don’t have to impose a structure onto the text; the text already has a structure within it.

You don’t have to force a text into a clever, alliterated three-point list. You simply unfold the 4-part gospel-shaped narrative that’s already there:

(𝟭) 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 (What is the core truth?)

(𝟮) 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 (How and why does our fallen flesh naturally resist this truth?)

(𝟯) 𝗚𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹 (How does Jesus, as our Substitute, perfectly fulfill this truth in our place?)

(𝟰) 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 (In union with Christ, how does the Spirit empower us to live this truth?)

Take Philippians 2:1–11.

1️⃣ Paul opens by calling believers to unity through other-centered humility. That's your 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲.

2️⃣ But then he diagnoses the 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. Selfish ambition and conceit naturally pull us toward self-importance and self-exaltation.

3️⃣ Here's where the 𝗚𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹 breaks in with the redemptive turn. Jesus, God in the flesh, humbled himself, submitting to death on a cross for us.

4️⃣ The 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 flows naturally. Because we are now united to Christ through faith, the Spirit empowers us to count others more significant than ourselves and serve them in humility as we've been served by Jesus.

The structure didn’t have to be invented or alliterated. It was already built into Paul's letter, waiting to be uncovered.

When you realize this gospel outline is built into every text, the weight lifts (and joy returns).

You stop trying to be a homiletical inventor and become a true expositor, an excavator who skillfully brushes away the dirt to reveal the redemptive treasure that was already there.

Imagine not having to re-outline all week and second-guess everything on Saturday.

Imagine opening your Bible on Monday morning knowing exactly where you’re going.

That’s the dream, isn’t it?

08/20/2026

What is the goal of preaching?

How about this?

The goal of every sermon is to glorify God by helping people come alive to the wonder, beauty, and transforming power of living in union with Jesus.

To preach this kind of union, we have to start with the core of the gospel: substitution.

Jesus lived the perfect life we couldn't live and died the death we deserved to die.

He takes our failing record and gives us his perfect A+.

Because of that “Grade Exchange,” we get to proclaim three glorious dimensions of grace in some form in every sermon.

(𝟭) 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 (𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻)
In union with Christ, believers are no longer defined by past sins or current struggles. They are declared fully, completely, and permanently as righteous as Jesus.

(𝟮) 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 (𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻)
Justification is legal. Adoption is relational. God is not a disappointed, condemning judge. At the cross, the gavel drops and we receive his fatherly embrace. Think of like the Father in Luke 15 running to embrace his son and covering him with a new robe.

(𝟯) 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 (𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻)
Change isn't mechanical. It's organic (John 15:4-5). Like a branch connected to the vine, transformation happens as we rest in our identity as fully forgivendeeply loved children of God. As we abide, we’re filled with the sap of the Spirit, who is the source of spiritual fruit (i.e., moral and spiritual change).

Behavior modification uses fear, guilt, and pride to produce outward change.

Preaching union with Jesus leverages the reconciling love of God to change believers from the inside out.

So this Sunday, don't just preach for better external moral outcomes.

Help folks come alive to the wonder of their union with Jesus—and experience God’s positional, relational, and transformational grace.

08/19/2026

However AI impacts pastoral ministry, these 7 realities for preaching remain.

And yes, there is much more to say on each.

But I think the conversation is worth having.

08/18/2026

What if you knew lives would be changed every time you stood up to preach?

That is the dream. And it's possible.

Yet, so many of us pour ourselves into sermon prep only to wonder if our preaching is making any difference.

It's discouraging enough to make you second-guess your calling.

Thankfully, faithfulness isn't measured by what you can see.

And the solution isn't staying up later, waking up earlier, or falling back on AI tools that do the work for you.

You just need a homiletical framework that enables you to preach the fullness of grace (and a reliable guide to walk you through the process).

Homiletically, the conventional three-point outline isn’t designed to preach grace that way.

Why? Because if the cross is preached at all, it typically comes in at the end as a fallback for failure rather that as the fuel for life, growth, and change.

What changed everything for me was the discovery of the four-part, gospel-shaped sermon framework already embedded in the DNA of every text.

In biblical theology, it’s Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration.

Mirroring those categories, Preach360 uses the terms Principle, Problem, Gospel, and Response (PPGR).

It's a framework designed to preach to the cross… and through it.

Positional grace and transformational grace.

The “fullness” of grace.

As a bonus with this framework, you don’t have to invent the outline from a text. You just unfold it from the text.

A simple roadmap. An intuitive process. A life-changing message, every Sunday.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Need help? Get more info at preach360(dot)com.

08/17/2026

To preach a sermon that truly connects, convicts, heals, and guides you need to speak with four personas.

1️⃣ The Teacher (The Principle)

Every sermon needs exegetical clarity. As the Teacher, your goal is simple. Explain the main idea of the text. We call it the Principle.

2️⃣ The Physician (The Problem)

Information alone isn't enough. So next, you become the Physician. Your task is to accurately diagnose the human condition of the heart. Why do we resist the Principle? Since the Problem isn’t a surface issue, you’ll do homiletical surgery that exposes the deeper need.

3️⃣ The Herald (The Gospel)

Once the wound is exposed, you can’t leave folks wounded. Here’s where you step up as the Herald. Heralds don’t offer good advice. They announce good news. You proclaim how Jesus perfectly fulfilled the Principle in our place, serving as our substitute in both life and death.

4️⃣ The Counselor (The Response)

Finally, you sit down with your listeners as a Counselor. The Counselor describes how the grace of union with Jesus makes a difference in the practical, day-in and day-out reality of the Christian life. You show them what love-motivated, Spirit-empowered, cross-tethered living looks like.

Teacher. Physician. Herald. Counselor.

Notice the progression? Principle. Problem. Gospel. Response.

When you move through these four personas, you aren't just delivering a lecture. You are unfolding a redemptive journey that leads your people into the new way of grace.

08/13/2026

Your sermon feeling a bit disjointed?

The fix may be as simple as a transition.

Try this.

08/13/2026

Ready to learn homiletical algebra?

It’s a simple equation.

FS + FP = GC + PC
________________
HS

Focused Study + Focused Presentation = Gospel Clarity + Practical Change

Of course, it all rests upon the presence and power of the Spirit.

𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝟭: 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆
Before you can preach clearly, you have to bring focus to your study in preparation.

This means distilling the text down to a single, governing Principle.

In the PPGR system, the “expository keyword” is the secret sauce.

Because, if you can whittle your Principle down to a sharp point, everything else falls into place.

And the keyword makes that possible.

𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝟮: 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Focused presentation often requires leaving good material out so the main thing is unmistakable.

You can’t say everything you want to say or could say about a text.

Again, the keyword is your friend.

And turns drinking from a firehose into enjoying a glass of water. 🙂

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁, 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭: 𝗚𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆
When your study highlights a specific Problem in the text, the turn to the Gospel shines brighter.

Not just an external problem but one that explores the sin under the sin, at the level of idolatry and unbelief.

From this depth of need, the cross becomes fuel for new life, not just a fallback for moral failure.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁, 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮: 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲
With grace as fuel in the Response movement, we can move beyond behavior modification tactics.

BM tactics often are rooted in guilt, feel forced, and ultimately unsustainable.

This is why grounding the Gospel movement in union with Christ provides both a "new way vs old way" motive for change (love, grace, faith) and "new way vs old way" power (the Holy Spirit).

So, do the math this Sunday.

Focus the message: Principle → Problem → Gospel → Response.

And watch the Spirit use gospel clarity to bring about real spiritual transformation.

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