Gateway Podcast: Episode 85

You can listen to or watch Gateway Podcast Episode 85 here.

(NOTE: Timestamps are for video version only.) 

This week we welcome two special guests - Gateway elders Justin Stiles and Matt Heft.

Lightning Round:

In about a month we’re going to record the first of what we hope will be an ongoing series of episodes discussing some famous or impactful sermons. Is there a sermon that has been especially meaningful or memorable to you? Why do you think it impacted you the way it did? (1:30)

Questions:

How did it happen that you made it onto the preaching calendar? Is this something you just volunteered to do or were you specifically asked to preach? (4:10)

I know you both have leadership and teaching gifts because you're both elders, you teach in Kidway, lead Life Groups, and Matt, you’ve taught an Equip class. But have either of you prepared and preached a sermon before? (5:15)

Because your sermons were part of our Psalms series, you were given a specific text to preach on. Do you think that made it easier or more difficult for you as you started preparing? (8:10)

Talk us through your process for preparing/writing your sermon. What research did you have to do? (11:35)

How long did it take you to write? (14:25)

How did you practice? Did your wives and kids have the sermon memorized because they heard you practicing so much? (16:05)

How was preparing to preach a sermon different from preparing for a presentation at work? (19:05)

Do you think you’ll listen to sermons differently having prepared and preached? (23:45)

Is this something you think you would be open to doing again sometime in the future, or was once enough? (28:25)

Final Thought (29:20)