Dear Pastors, are you looking for a sermon inspiration? It can be quite a daunting task, even for seasoned pastors. How do you go about it? What will be your topic? What passages of scripture do you use? How do you tie everything up in a neat little bow? Can you even do that? After all, a lot of scripture is open to interpretation. Well, if you’re wracking your brain trying to write that sermon, these 3 simple sermon preparation tips should help in prepartion a wisdom-filled Bible Sermon.

Writing Bible Sermons

At the top of the list of things to do is to make sure that you have a passage of scripture that you want to preach off of. This will help you to be more focused in your preparations. For example, if you’re preaching on “The 10 Lepers”, it’s pretty strange if you prepare the sermon by looking at the “Noah’s Ark”. Being specific bible verse or topic in mind will make your preparation of the sermon much easier as you have a laser-targeted topic to write about.

If possible, start your sermon with a story, preferably a personal one. It will be good if the story is a humorous one. The rationale is that people love to hear stories and would like to relate themselves to the story. If you jump right into the theological debate, you have a high chance of losing some of your congregation. Afterall, Jesus used parables (ie. stories) to start some of his sermons and the pastors should follow His examples too.

Finally, you want to keep your sermon brief. Some mentors like to say, if you can’t get your point across in under 10 minutes, then it wasn’t worth getting across in the first place. One way to keep your sermon brief is to make a list of bullet points that you want to cover in the sermon itself. Try to keep them to 3 or 4 points in total.

To conclude, all preachers are adviced to rely on our Lord Jesus as the giver of wisdom. It is a good idea to pray (and even fast) before staring a sermon preparation will be a good idea and I believe that any preachers can write an inspired message.