It’s really interesting to see your process.

My process is rather boring. I use W.H. Griffith Thomas’s process commended by an Anglican priest: “Thing yourself empty; read yourself full; write yourself clear; pray yourself keen, and then enter the pulpit and let yourself go.”

I have a 4 page outline that I must stick with otherwise my ADD gets the better of me and then a sermon becomes a hostage situation. I rarely stray from my outline which is mostly bullet points in order and it keeps me on track and prevents me from beating the application section to death (which I have a tendency to do when I stray from the outline!).

Everything is in MS Word and stays there. Usually I’m taking a 12 page outline with all my Scriptures, notes, reflections, ideas, stories, etc… and have to bring it to 4 pages (14 point, Franklin Medium Gothic) so it equals out to about 25-30 minutes with the way that I deliver my talk.

This basic process is how I’ve been arranging and delivering my messages for 17 years now. It’s very low tech but it works.

I use Evernote for raw collection of random quotes, pics, articles, thoughts, etc.

I use Mindomo for mindmapping and brainstorming (using Chrome I now have it as its own application which is way cool)

I use Google Docs or Evernote for typing it out as a rough outline, then print it out, then practice and scribble notes. I can’t do the word for word thing since my teaching is always different when I actually do it depending on the signals I’m getting from the crowd.

The doodling is sweet, I just doubt I’m as creative as you are to doodle like that, let alone the fact I could never draw such cool stick figures.

But the idea of those squares, with your main points being a line each, combined with timestamps, is way cool and I think I’ll try that out next time.

Thanks for writing this up!