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How To Plan A Preaching Calendar

November 11, 2011 Rodlie Ortiz, D.Min.

If you’re a pastor, one of the most important things you can do in your congregation is to be intentional about your preaching. You’ll never have more time to influence your people than when you stand before them every week at the pulpit. Part of this, is learning to plan and develop a preaching calendar. Imagine having sermons planned out for months (or a whole year) at a time. Imagine how much less stress you’d have and the blessing that your church leaders would receive by being able to intentionally plan the service around the series that’s coming up.

A few months ago I wrote an article for Ministry Magazine called “Planning a Preaching Calendar for a Multi-Church District.” In that article I share the entire process I went through to develop a preaching calendar. If you have one, or many churches, you can use the same process to help you. Out of everything that you could do as a pastor, I believe that learning to plan a preaching calendar is in the top three in terms of importance.

So, if you’ve never done a preaching calendar before, here you go. The time is now. Do the process, make it better, and then share what you’ve done here.

Your church will thank you.

So what about you? Do you use preaching calendars? How do you develop them? What would you add to the list here?

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About Rodlie Ortiz, D.Min.

On the pastoral team at Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University. Tech geek.

Comments

  1. Jonathan P says

    November 11, 2011 at 10:06 am

    nice post.

    sermonic calendars are great! they definitely are stress relievers, they give you a big picture view of the whole year. and really, there’s so much to preach on, a year just isn’t enough to get everything in. sure it takes time to develop one, but its definitely worth it. i can’t imagine just preaching week to week…

    thanks for the post!

    • Rodlie Ortiz says

      November 18, 2011 at 11:36 am

      indeed…def worth it…

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