Free guides
Free Sermon Guides
Plain, practical help for preachers
Step-by-step help for the preacher who was never shown how to build a message.
These free guides come straight from The Sermon That Holds the Room, a field manual for preachers who are done winging it. Start with the one you need this week.
- How to Prepare a Sermon — The nine sermon preparation steps, from Scripture to a clear call.
- Sermon Outline Template — A free nine-step fill-in outline with a worked example.
- How to Write a Sermon Step by Step — Blank page to pulpit, one step at a time, even your first sermon.
- How to Preach a Funeral Sermon — A chaplain's complete funeral order of service and four-truth sermon.
- Sermon Introduction Ideas — Four ways to open a sermon so people lean in.
- How to End a Sermon — Application people can do, a clear call, and a full-circle close.
- How Long Should a Sermon Be? — Why structure matters more than the clock, and how to cut.
- How to Preach a Bible Story — The eight-step Hero's Journey for narrative sermons.
- Sermon Illustrations and 22 Preaching Tools — The 22-tool preacher's toolbox and where each tool fits.
Every guide teaches part of the same nine-step framework: Scripture, the problem, a glimpse of hope, the causes, intensify, another glimpse of hope, the solution, application, and the call to action. The book puts it all in one place. See the book and order a copy.