The strength to planning a year in advance: I never wake up Monday morning and ask myself "what will I preach this Sunday?" At this time I am Bi-vocational so I need a lot of up-front organizing to keep on track. I have used this organizing method since 1992, Incorporated OneNote since 2008. Under each sermon there are sub-tabs for research personal notes, PDFs, articles, web materials etc. Under the preaching notebook I lay out a sub-sub notebook for each series during the year, funeral preaching, Evening (Cowboy Church) and otherįor sermons with my own numbering system (series #, week in year, Sermon in Series) each sermon gets a note In each Notebook I have subnotebooks for Ministry areas ![]() I do my sermon calendar for the next year in October (year running from Dec to Nov)Ģ. I am a OneNote user, here is my basic structure And I'll put a shortcut to each message in the series / topic folder.ĮDIT: If I wanted to keep track of where I'd preached it, Microsoft Word offers a tag in the document info that I'd use. ![]() When I do preach topically or preach a series, I'll just add a folder whose name relfects the topic or series topic (which sort underneath the books of the Bible, which I'm looking for more often). ![]() By organizing files this way, I can use Windows search to find by date (if desired), I have both sermon & research notes organized & filed by Scripture passage-which as an expository preach I find to be much more helpful.Īnd when I preach from more than one passage (as you can see in examples below), I'll make a shortcut to the single copy of the file, rename it so the other passage is listed first, & then place the shortcut in the folder for the other book of the Bible that references this Scripture.
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