Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 1

You know the Saturday-night feeling — the week filled up, Sunday arrived, and the sermon still isn't ready. You didn't want it that way. The message mattered too much to rush, and now you're out of time. This book was written for that week.

Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 1 gives you 52 complete sermon outlines — one for every Sunday of the year — taken directly from the notes I preach from each week. These are not bare three-point skeletons. Each outline carries the message's flow, its main points fully developed, its Scripture laid open, and room for you to bring your own illustrations, your own application, your own voice. The structure and the research are done. You bring the prayer, the study, and the Spirit's leading — the outline gives you back your week.

Inside you'll find sermons from both the Old and New Testaments, ready for New Year's, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas — plus a complete five-week series on Acts 17, "Turning the World Upside Down." Every outline is studied over, prayed over, and preached in a local church. There's no filler, and nothing to flesh out from scratch.

Preach them as they are when the week is short, or build on them and take each message in your own direction. Either way, the heavy lifting is done — so you can spend the time you get back on the people God has placed before you.

See every sermon and its text in the reference list below.

Sermon Reference List

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