The big encouragement is that we need to persist in the Word of God.

And what we're not looking for is a whole lot necessarily of spectacular or emotionally significant moments.

There's no reason that they might not happen and praise God if they do.

But actually the Christian life is one where we are committed to discipline of sitting under the

word and the discipline of living out that word, not where we're committed to getting a certain

feeling from either teaching or listening to the word.

Welcome to the Crossway podcast, a show where we sit down with authors each week for thoughtful

interviews about the Bible, theology, church history, and the Christian life.

I'm Matt Tully, and today I'm talking with Tim Patrick.

Tim serves as the principal of the Bible College of South Australia, where he teaches theology

and practical ministry.

Before that, he served in local church ministry for 10 years, and his latest book, co-authored

with Andrew Reed, is the whole council of God, why and how to preach the entire Bible

from Crossway.

Today, Tim and I discuss how to plan a sermon series.

He highlights his own process for conceptualizing, scheduling, and studying for a new series,

shares his thoughts on determining the ideal length of a series, and offers advice related to

staying on track and in sync when multiple preachers are involved. Let's get started.

Tim, thank you so much for joining us on the Crossway podcast today.

Good day, Matt. It's really great to be with you. Thank you.

So as you think back over your career as a pastor, what would you say has been your most

embarrassing moment when it comes to preaching? Yeah, right. Good. I don't know what my most

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