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What are you preaching this year? What should you preach this year, and the next year? In this week's skills article—"Plan Your Preaching"—Bryan Wilkerson claims that that's the wrong question. Instead, it's better to ask, "Where do we want to go this year?" Planning your preaching, like planning a road trip, includes the following steps—choosing your destination, mapping the route, packing your bags, making mid-trip corrections, and arriving at your destination. Bryan maps out a creative and helpful approach to planning your next chunk of sermon series.

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This week we also offer another sermon in the series that Bill Hybels claims took him 40 years to write. In this week's sermon—"Simplify: Part 2"—Hybels explains how to expunge these three words from your church's and your personal vocabulary: OVERWHELMED, OVERSCHEDULED, and EXHAUSTED. You can read Bill's first sermon here—"Simplify: Part 1," and then check out the new Tyndale book based on Bill's sermon series—Simplify—and Tyndale's collection of free church/preaching resources.

Also, check out these new resources:

• Featured Skills Article: "Step 2: Plan Your Preaching" by Bryan Wilkerson
• Featured Illustration: The Lie Behind 'The Crying Indian'
• Featured Video: Impatient People: Sometimes God tells us to wait.
• Featured Sermon: "Simplify: Part 2" by Bill Hybels

In Christ,

Matt Woodley
Managing Editor, PreachingToday.com
mwoodley@christianitytoday.com

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Matt Woodley is the pastor of compassion ministries at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois.