Manuscript Monday?–“Looking Outside Yourself”

I think I want to try something new this week. Well, actually, I know I do want to try something new this week.

When I look at my schedule, I realize that I do a LOT of writing. Or at least, when I’m on my normal schedule, I do a significant amount of writing. Between sermons, Bible classes, blog posts, bulletin articles, podcast scripts, and a handful of other odds and ends, I spend quite a bit of time at my keyboard.

This week, I want to take one of those projects, my Sunday morning sermon, and share it with you.

Now, I don’t normally write manuscripts for my sermons. I only take an outline with me into the pulpit, and I even try not to look at that. For a change, though, I decided to write a manuscript for this Sunday’s AM sermon for a couple reasons:

1. Writing complete sentences always forces me to fully develop my thoughts. It keeps me honest, and helps the development of the point I’m trying to make.


2. I’m planning on adding some book writing to the pile of writing that I already do. I think this can be some good practice.

I hope that you can benefit from this manuscript. I know it’s a little on the long side (6.5 pages of paragraphs), but it shouldn’t take too long to read. For preachers, I added an outline to the end of the manuscript to help you out if you’d like to use it. Yes, feel free to use it (that is, if you find it useful).

Also, I’d love to know what you think about this idea. Leave your thoughts in the comments section of this blog (please put them here instead of Facebook).

Hope it blesses you in some way!

~Daniel Howell

“Looking Outside Myself” (PDF)