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A God Blessed Nation 2 Chronicles 7:12–16 Dr Nelson’s Annual Preacher’s Sourcebook Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 1 8/18/2011 4:34:32 PM Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 2 8/18/2011 4:34:32 PM Nelson’s Annual Preacher’s Sourcebook Volume 1 Kent Spann and David Wheeler, Editors Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 3 8/18/2011 4:34:32 PM © 2011 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc. Thomas Nelson, Inc., titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fundraising, or sales promo- tional use. For information, please email [email protected]. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations marked nkjv are taken from THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations noted kjv are taken from The Holy Bible, King James Version. Scripture quotations marked niv are taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VER- SION®. © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked nasb are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®. © The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked nrsv are taken from the NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION of the Bible. © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked nlt are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation. © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked gnt are taken from The Good News Translation. © 1976, 1992 by The Ameri- can Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked hcsb are taken from the Holman Christian Standard Bible (hcsb). © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked msg are taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Typesetting by Gregory C. Benoit Publishing, Old Mystic, CT. Spann, Kent and David Wheeler (ed.) Nelson’s annual preacher’s sourcebook, Volume 1. ISBN 10: 1-4185-4896-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-4185-4896-4 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 rrd 12 11 10 09 Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 4 8/18/2011 4:34:32 PM CONTENTS Introduction ix 2012 Contributors xiv Worship Services xviii Preaching Series xix Weekly Sermon Suggestions Week 1 1 Week 2 10 Week 3 17 Week 4 24 Week 5 30 Week 6 37 Week 7 44 Week 8 51 Week 9 58 Week 10 64 Week 11 71 Week 12 79 Week 13 86 Week 14 93 Week 15 101 Week 16 109 Week 17 116 Week 18 123 Week 19 130 Week 20 136 Week 21 143 Week 22 151 Week 23 159 Week 24 165 Week 25 172 Week 26 179 Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 5 8/18/2011 4:34:32 PM VI j NELSON’S ANNUAL PREACHER’S SOURCEBOOK Week 27 187 Week 28 195 Week 29 204 Week 30 211 Week 31 217 Week 32 225 Week 33 232 Week 34 239 Week 35 247 Week 36 253 Week 37 260 Week 38 267 Week 39 273 Week 40 281 Week 41 289 Week 42 295 Week 43 302 Week 44 310 Week 45 318 Week 46 326 Week 47 332 Week 48 339 Week 49 345 Week 50 350 Week 51 356 Week 52 362 Funeral Sermons The Life More Than Meat! 368 A Precious Departure 372 When Life Falls Apart 375 Suggested Worship Services (Weeks 1–52) 378 Extra Service 485 Christmas Eve Communion Service 487 Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 6 8/18/2011 4:34:33 PM ConTenTS j VII Christmas Eve Service 489 Baby Dedication Service 491 Sharpening Your Preaching Skills Preaching on the Family 493 Preaching through a Book of the Bible 498 Shepherding God’s People Ministering To People In Special-Needs Situations 503 Ministering in Times of Grief 508 Shepherding the Shepherd Working with Volunteers 512 Leading by Faith 515 Heroes of the Faith Bob Russell 518 Billy Sunday (1862–1935) 521 Special Occasion Registries Baby Dedication 525 Baptisms and Confirmations 526 Funeral Registration 527 Funerals Log 528 Marriage Registration 529 Marriages Log 530 Sermons Preached 531 Scripture Index by Week 533 Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 7 8/18/2011 4:34:33 PM Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 8 8/18/2011 4:34:33 PM INTRODUCTION j IX INTRODUCTION Recently, I (Kent Spann) did a funeral service where I actually rode with the funeral director. It was a long drive, so there was plenty of time to talk and get acquainted. On the drive back, I decided to ask him how he got into the funeral business, and what he liked about it. His story was an interesting one. After he told his story, he turned to me and said he had a question that he had always wanted to ask a preacher. His question was simply this: “How do you come up with sermons every week?” That was the question I had when I first started. As a young pastor, I had to produce three messages a week. Twenty-seven years later, I am closing in on my fifteen-hundredth sermon. I have certainly preached more times than that. That question still comes to mind. One of the helps that I shared with the funeral director was sermon material like the book that you are holding in your hands. It is the reason that David Wheeler and I got involved in this project. It is why we spend the countless hours necessary to gather, edit, and compile the material you just purchased. We have a passion to help preachers like you. It is the reason that Thomas Nel- son Publishers keeps putting out new editions each year. After a long, dry sermon, a minister announced that he wished to meet with the church board following the close of the service. The first man to -ar rive and greet the minister was a total stranger. “You misunderstood my an- nouncement. This is a meeting of the board members,” explained the minister. “I know,” said the man, “but if there is anyone here more bored than I am, then I’d like to meet him.” We want to help God’s preachers produce dynamic mes- sages from the most exciting book in the entire world: the Bible. New Format One of the things you will notice about this year’s volume is that it is not tied to the calendar. There are 52 weeks of sermons, three each week. The rea- son for the new format is to make the book useable for the long haul. When you put a date on it, it becomes dated once the year has passed. We will be creating new volumes each year with different emphases. Preacher's Sourcebook 2012.indd 9 8/18/2011 4:34:33 PM X j NELSON’S ANNUAL PREACHER’S SOURCEBOOK Each volume will still contain holiday sermons such as Christmas, New Year’s, and Easter. Instead of going by the date, look under “Special Occasion Sermons” in the table of contents for the holiday sermon you need. Each vol- ume will still contain worship services to help you put together a total service. Feel free to move the services to fit the sermon or week you need them. Finally, each volume will include funeral sermons to help you when you receive the call to preach a funeral sermon. You will also notice also that we have added a longer second sermon. Now, in addition to the longer sermon, there is a medium sermon and a short ser- mon. We hope the addition of the longer second sermon will give you more material. New Focus This year’s volume will focus on preaching on the family. There are three series: Faith in the Family, The Missional Family, and Single and Satisfied. In addition, there is a standalone short message in week 6. David Wheeler has prepared an article on the importance of preaching on family. New Material As always, there is new material by new preachers. I am delighted to wel- come many new contributors whose material I think will really bless you. I am thrilled that Love Worth Finding ministries gave us permission to publish some of the late Dr. Adrian Rogers’ sermons. His preaching was so powerful. Make It Yours Dr. Rogers said on one occasion, when talking about using his sermon mate- rial, that if you can fit it in your gun then shoot it. He wasn’t saying take his message and preach it verbatim; he was saying take the material and make it your own. Put it in your words. Speak it in your congregation’s language. Fill it with your illustrations. Make your own applications. That is what you need to do with this book. It is not a substitute for getting into the Word and hearing God. It is not an escape from the hard work of ser- mon preparation.
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