Sermon Preparation

There are two types of sermonpreparation..
1) topic or theme given to you to preach on
2)pray and ask god what does your congregation you are preaching to needs to hear...
Always seek God for direction and guidance. Pray and ask God to give you a subject and title. Then ask God to give you or lead you to the text you will use. The spiritknows what your congregation needs spiritually, how many there will be, type of people and gender of the majority of the congregation.
3) When you are given a theme or text you can look at your concordance to find the text you will use. There are good concordances you can use. The strongs concordance will also have the word in greek and their meaning as to the greek text. Try to use both the O.T. and the N.T. in your sermons.
You can give a history of your text
ie: Who wrote the book?
Dates/times the book was written
Background of what was going on during the time of your text.
Try to answer the five w's and how.
Remember you don't always have to give this info. but it is a way to lengthen your sermon if you have the time to do it...
5) Once the preacher has their subject, title and text they should now study the text so that they may now exegese it...
The theme or subject should be suitable to the themegiven to you, or to the time, place and occassion ie:
Easter preach on the resurrection of christ
Christmas on the birth of christ. In doing so this the preacher is able to take advantage of the sentiment already existing in the minds his/her people in favor of their theme (subject).
Exegesis is the breaking dow of the text into such a way that people can understand the five w's of the text(scriptures verses) they are using

what a beautiful thursday............

Even though it has been raining all day . The fog is so thick you can not see and the wind is blowing so hard it can knock you down, I still can say what a beautiful day.
My heavenly father has provided me with life and joy. I have a beautiful home . Four beautiful children and Two granddaughters. A husband and all but not least my dog snoop. As i sit and think about all whats wrong with today i can clearly see that I am a very lucky person and therefore i can say what a beautiful day, is today...