<![CDATA[ReSermon - ReSermon U]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:35:57 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[ReSermon launches The Next Stage Podcast]]>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/resermon-launches-the-next-stage-podcastThe Next Stage Podcast Helps Men Climb the Mountain Called "Life"
Picture
The Next Stage Podcast for Men is hosted by Rob Stout.
January 10, 2024: ReSermon LLC proudly announces the launch of the The Next Stage Podcast for Men. Hosted by Rob Stout of Erie, Colorado. The Next Stage helps men understand true masculinity by shunning its caricatures and focusing on historic and classic principles grounded in Passion, Power, Perspective, and Purpose. The Next Stage is a bi-weekly podcast launching on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 and available on your favorite video and audio podcast platforms.

About The Next Stage Podcast for Men: It's your life, and you only get one shot at it. The mountain of life includes slippery footing, tottering boulders, and thinning air. You’re strong and capable but are you fully equipped to successfully summit with your one shot to conquer this mountain? You don’t need clichés, pity, or the modern leadership industry’s empty go-rah cheerleader banter. You need the fellowship of men who also soberly recognize the value of like-minded fellowship. They see the wisdom of Solomon who observed thousands of years ago that even the best intended plans tend to go south without the wise counsel of other men. (See Proverbs 15:22.) Next Stage Podcast is about wise men helping wise men with the time-tested tools for summiting life’s climb. Next Stage Podcast is co-produced by ReSermon LLC and hosted by Rob Stout. Learn more at NextStage@Sherpa5280.com or visit www.Sherpa5280.com.
Spotify | Deezer | RSS | Apple Podcasts 
]]><![CDATA[ReSermon Institute quotables]]>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 17:18:02 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/resermon-institute-quotables
]]><![CDATA[Ode to a Youth Pastor]]>Sat, 02 Mar 2019 17:48:02 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/ode-to-a-youth-pastorBy Christopher Mann
...and, ode to visionaries like these Young Life videographers who don't just let good stories sit in a filing cabinet, but instead project them into the public square for greater impact.

​It certainly impacted me.
]]><![CDATA[ReSermon Institute covered in News-Sentinel]]>Sat, 02 Mar 2019 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/resermon-institute-covered-in-news-sentinelThis may be the ‘City of Churches,’ but there’s always room for improvement
By Kevin Leininger 
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
March 2, 2019
Picture
​“Every time I look at you I don’t understand
Why you let the things you did get so far out hand.
You’d have managed better if you’d had it planned.
Why’d you choose such a backward time in such a strange land?
If you’d come today you could have reached a whole nation.
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.”

Tim Rice’s lyrics from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar may be bad theology — the passion Christians are about to observe was precisely what God had in mind — but Judas had a point about the failure to proclaim the faith in the most accessible way.

Converting missed opportunity into effective ministry is the mission of former professional communicator and current Southern Baptist seminarian Christopher Mann, whose upcoming “ReSermon Institute” aims to help pastors and others “expand the potential audience of their sermons in order to increase listenership, foot traffic, membership, revenue and, ultimately, higher missional impact.”

Click here for the full article.
]]><![CDATA[ReSermon Institute teaches Fort Wayne pastors to expand sermon audience.]]>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:44:19 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/resermon-institute-teaches-fort-wayne-pastors-to-expand-sermon-audience
Picture

Day-long seminar will teach pastors and ministry leaders how to empower more listeners.

For Immediate Release
February 6, 2019
​FORT WAYNE -- ReSermon Institute announced a new seminar to teach pastors how to expand a church’s audience by making sermon content accessible, searchable and projectable. On March 15, 2019, seven renown experts in communications and ministry will convene at Pathway Community Church to offer a day-long series of classes dedicated to helping ministry leaders better understand:
  • how to make sermons accessible to the deaf, the hard-of-hearing and members of the disabled community;
  • how to make sermons searchable by Googlers and Bingers; and
  • how to make sermons projectable by repurposing sermon content into blog posts, editorials, books and more.

The day’s teaching team includes:
(link to online biographies: http://www.resermon.com/rsi-faculty.html)
  • Rev. Donovan Coley:  Emcee and Moderator
  • Christopher Mann: Co-Founder, ReSermon Institute
  • Mark Mellinger: Weekend news anchor for WATE in Knoxville, Tenn. and former anchor at WANE Channel 15.
  • Rev. Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr: Pastor, theologian, author of ten books and former resident scholar at Ligonier Ministries.
  • Dr. Les Sillars: Professor of Journalism at Patrick Henry College, Purceville, VA; Associate Editor for World Magazine; Contributor to the World and Everything In It daily podcast.
  • Curt Smith: President of the Indiana Family Institute and author of two books.
  • Carl and Bev Moellering: founders of Moellering Culture.
  • Jason Hamrock: CEO of Missional Marketing.
 
The seminar is open to pastors, staff and ministry leaders involved in helping their respective ministries serve the greater northern Indiana and Ohio communities. Tickets are $20 early bird, and $25 at the door.
  • What: ReSermon Institute.
  • Where: Pathway Community Church, 11910 Shearwater Run, Fort Wayne, IN 46845.
  • When: Friday, March 15, 2019, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • For whom: Pastors, staff, ministry leaders and advocates for greater sermon audience accessibility.
  • How much: $20 early bird through 3/1/19. $25 at the door.
​ “ReSermon Institute helped my team understand how to multiply the impact of our weekly worship. Now, more people are listening to our sermons every week and attendance has increased.”
– Greg Byman, Senior Pastor, St Joe Community Church.
“I initially struggled to get my head around the ReSermon Institute concept, but anybody who knows me knows that I love big ideas, and the ReSermon Institute is indeed a very big idea. I’m looking forward to participating in this important seminar.”
– Rev. Donovan Coley.
“I’ve wondered about how nationally-known pastors find the time to publish books and study guides every year and now I get it! Windows, Doors and More is excited to sponsor ReSermon Institute to help teach pastors how to leverage their own sermon content for greater impact in Fort Wayne and beyond.”
– Kevin Hunter, President, Windows, Doors and More.
About ReSermon Institute

ReSermon Institute teaches pastors and ministry leaders how to expand their sermon audience by making sermon content more accessible, searchable and projectable. Pastors learn how to repurposes sermon or lecture content into podcasts, blog posts, editorials, and books deeper into the public square for optimal ministry impact. To sign up for the ReSermon.com newsletter or learn more about an Institute near you, visit www.ReSermon.com. 
]]><![CDATA[Dear Church: Please stop hosting porn]]>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 23:29:02 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/dear-church-please-stop-hosting-pornPicture
By Christopher Mann
For ReSermon.com

I am not aware of a church that intentionally hosts pornography. 

​I am aware of many churches who have changed their URL from www.OldChurchDomain.com to the new and improved www.CoolerChurchDomain.com, and then let OldChurchDomain.com lapse into the open market of URLs, where anybody can buy it. Usually, business-minded folks will scoop up these kinds of URLs because they're betting that among the 1,000 or so discarded URLs they buy, there are a sufficient number of former owners who just forgot to renew these domains, and they're willing to pay the (legal) scalping fees of $3,000, $5,000, $10,000 or more to get those URLs back. It may sound slimy, but they're playing by the rules, and its all legal.
But there are many wicked businesses who buy these discarded domains for keeps and push massive amounts of porn. So for years to come, these sites are hosting and hooking new generations of porn addicts. If we're upset with factories polluting cities with toxic "brown fields" after decades of use, we're also upset with the short-sighted churches empowering pornographers to leave brown fields on the internet. 

Action
When you change your website to CoolerChurchDomain.com, please keep the old domain. Do everybody a favor and just keep eternally paying the $10 annual fee required to retain legal possession of OldChurchDomain.com. Think of it as taking your entire community out to Starbucks for a year.
Place a redirect on that old domain so that it redirects traffic to CoolerChurchDomain.com. That way, you get the ongoing benefit from your old name's traffic forever. 
]]><![CDATA[ReSermon Institute Announces New Seminar]]>Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/resermon-institute-announces-new-seminarPicture
​Media: Contact Christopher Mann at (m/t) 260.508.3136 or Institute@ReSermon.com. 

Institute will teach pastors, staff and volunteers how to repurpose sermon content into blogs, books and more for deeper ministry impact.

Fort Wayne—ReSermon Institute announced a new seminar to teach pastors how to repurpose sermon content into other media like podcasts, editorials, social media posts, books and more. The seminar is open to pastors, staff and volunteers involved in helping their respective ministries serve the greater northern Indiana and Ohio communities.
​What: ReSermon Institute, “Repurposing Sermon Content into the Public Square.”
Presenter: Christopher Mann, Founder, ReSermon.com. 
Where: St Joe Community Church, 2900 North Anthony Blvd., Fort Wayne.
When: Friday, November 9, 2018, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 
For whom: Pastors, staff and volunteers.
How much: $15 for lunch courtesy of Chick-Fil-A and complimentary ReSermon resources.
For more information and registration: http://www.resermon.com/resermon-institute.html. 
PictureGreg Byman, Senior Pastor, St Joe Community Church.
​“I am extremely grateful to ReSermon for helping us multiply the impact of our weekly worship.  As a pastor who only uses outlines to preach, ReSermon creates the transcript for me, which makes it much easier to expand the reach of my message in many forms and places. People are accessing our audio files weekly, and we are already hearing that first-time worship guests have listened to sermons before deciding to attend. St Joe Community Church is excited to host Fort Wayne’s first ReSermon Institute on November 9th!” – Greg Byman, Senior Pastor, St Joe Community Church. 
About ReSermon.com 
ReSermon repurposes sermon or lecture content into the public square. ReSermon is not a social media platform or dot-com automation service. Rather, we are writers, editors, publicists and other creatives who help pastors extend and leverage their preached Word of God into a diversity of online and print formats for maximum optimal ministry impact. ReSermon.com turns a sermon, lecture, radio show, or the like into podcasts, vlogcasts, blog posts, social media posts, editorials, books and more. In 2018, ReSermon.com begins sponsoring periodic ReSermon Institute seminars that focus on aspects of sermon repurposing. To sign up for the ReSermon.com newsletter or learn more about an Institute near you, see below. ​
Register
]]><![CDATA[Transcription and sharing: A low-cost strategy for how a small church or a church plant can reach into a community.]]>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/transcription-and-sharing-a-low-cost-strategy-for-how-a-small-church-or-a-church-plant-can-reach-into-a-communityBy Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com
In the age of online media, small churches and big churches alike face the same challenge -- producing excellent, engaging sermon content. If you are a small church or church plant and you're producing solid material hosted on a online platform, consider this low-cost strategy for engaging your community.

Sunday

Preach. 
​Just keep doing what you're doing. See, you're already off to a good start.

Monday

Transcribe the sermon.

Tuesday

  1. Post both the audio file and the transcription to your blog.
  2. Share through Facebook, Twitter, Linked IN, etc., the availability of this week's sermon and the transcript. Be sure to lead the post with an engaging, pithy excerpt and include a link to the blog post.
  3. Intentionally and overtly encourage your membership to (a) like it (b) comment on it and (c) share it into their social media communities.

Wednesday through Sunday

  1. ​Monitor the growth likes and shares and be ready to respond to comments for deeper discussions.
  2. If your church does this weekly, then your searching ranking will go higher in Google and Bing search: algorithms ("algo" for short) reward your church with higher search rankings, because you're becoming a regular producer of original content. You're not just commenting, sharing and liking, but you're an original producer of content, and the algos recognize you as a regular producer, thereby graduating you into a higher priority queue. 
  3. You condition greater portions of both your non-church community and your church community into the habit of consuming and distributing your sermon content. 

Questions to consider

  • What impact do you think might this have on your church’s personal attendance and financial growth in 2017? 
  • Compared to other outreach strategies, how does the cost/benefit analysis compare?

For further reading

​There are other benefits to transcription, and you can read about them by clicking on the “Transcription” tab on ReSermon blog, or just clicking here.
]]><![CDATA[Sermon to Book: Do my Sermons have Book Potential?]]>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/sermon-to-book-do-my-sermons-have-book-potentialBy Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com
Picture
There is a growing school of thought that self-publishing is the modern era’s “big league” and that traditional publishing like Simon & Schuster of the world are dinosaurs awaiting their extinction. This thinking has some valid points, but I’m not fully convinced, believing that many--not all--publishers are reinventing themselves to adapt to technology.

​For now, traditional publishing and self-publishing are successfully competing in the marketplace, and pastors who want to engage the public square have to make choices that align with their personal values coupled with ever-changing technological and logistical innovation.
​
Books vary greatly in length and this should encourage pastors. While the contemporary book market likes to publish 6”x9” trade paperbacks at 250 words per page, meaning that a 75,000 word manuscript will format into about 300 pages, it is important to note that many excellent books throughout history have pierced the heart with both fewer page and greater page counts.​
  • Small: CS Lewis's book, A Grief Observed, is about 16,000 words long and many printings of this classic book have it printed around 90 pages. If you were to condense sermons into a book like this, think about 8 - 16 sermons.
  • Medium: Andy Stanley's book, Communicating For a Change, is about 81,000 words long over 180 pages.  If you were to condense sermons into a book like this, think about 40-80 sermons.
  • Large: Dr. James Dobson's book, Bringing up Boys, is about 152,000 words over 242 pages. If you were to condense sermons into a book like this, think about 75-150 sermons.
  • Huge: Wayne Grudem’s Politics According to the Bible is about 330,000 words over 588 pages. If you were to condense sermons into a book like this, think about 150-300 sermons.
Of course, the latter three books represent a different kind of genre in which heavy research, vetting, and peer reviews are more appropriate and required than a self-reflective work like Lewis’ A Grief Observed.

Can your sermons be rolled up into a book?

​ReSermon can help you navigate and many other challenges in the course of repurposing your preached Word into the public square.
Let's book some time on the phone
Or, let's chat now...
]]><![CDATA[Sermon to Book: Why and How]]>Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.resermon.com/resermon-u/sermon-to-book-why-and-howBy Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com
Picture

​Why roll sermons into a book? Pastor-authors are more historically inclined to turning sermons into books for a number of good reasons.

Durability. The codex gradually edged out the use of parchment scrolls by the fourth century because the codex was so much more durable, compared to newspapers and other temporal publications of the day, which typically came with no hard protective cover. The paper-based book format has proved an enduring medium time and again for the past fifteen centuries and will continue to do so even in the internet age.

Refinement. Another benefit of rolling sermons into a book is the editorial refinement process required to publish a long document. Granted, in the age of self-publishing, where writers can more easily and economically access publishing platforms with little or no external assistance from editors, graphic designers, and the like, we are seeing more books published every year that do not go through this refinement process. Grammar snobs, style snobs, graphic snobs, marketing snobs and book snobs in general turn their noses up at these works and while I sympathize with these snobs a little, I am generally more forgiving of this author category; for many first-time and novice authors, sometimes not only is self-publishing one’s only option, but a great great option.

There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to skipping this refinement process but generally speaking, successful books that have an enduring, persevering message are the product of a broad refinement workflow which involves a team of editors and designers and marketers who collaboratively help the author achieve a more enduring final product.

Books are easier on a pastor’s calendar than weekly editorials. Some pastor-authors will bristle at this, and understandably so. It's not that there really is any more or less work enrolling your sermons into a book rather than weekly editorials or blog posts, but due dates for manuscript are a lot more fungible with a book manuscript than a weekly editorial. In addition, there is an added concern for timeliness that a weekly writer must keep in mind.  

Ideally, pastors should roll up their sermons into weekly essays, editorials and blog posts and then roll those publications into a larger book. But if a pastor is in a season of life where he is responsible for weddings, funerals, counseling, preaching and the church’s business oversight, and spending time with family, then the fungible schedule of manuscript revision is better. Rolling sermons into the classic codex format is the church’s historically time-honored, missionally-tested and financially sustaining mode of gospel propagation and cultural salienation.

But who will read your book?
The paradox: Who is going to read your book? Self-publishers like Westbow Press or Xulon Press and others are very eager to take your $5,000 and give you a simple case of books for you to market but who's going to buy that sample case? Do you have a following?

  • Self-publishers offer marketing help but they offer precious little in the way of marketing.
  • They offer the website but the manpower required up to keep that website updated is mostly up to the author.
  • They offer press releases but they depend on the author to generate the content and take the follow up calls.

Traditionally, publishers want to see an excellent manuscript but also some measure of evidence that there is a market for your book. Sometimes, that is a simple smell test. if your manuscript made the publisher cry or laugh or feel righteous indignation or otherwise marvel, then he will reasonably conclude that with the right marketing, your manuscript will be a success in the marketplace,  and he cares less about how many people follow you now.

The case for blogging first, booking second
Ideally, however, publishers want to see both an excellent manuscript and evidence of a following, and herein lies the case for blogging and editorializing as a ramp-up toward book production.  If you present a so-so manuscript but your blog demonstrates 5,000, 10,000, 25,000 unique visitors per month, the publisher might conclude that your manuscript can be edited into a better version. in this case, you might decide to skip the self-publishing route and go for the big league.

How can ReSermon help? ReSermon can repurpose your sermons into blog posts and then roll your sermons into books as well.
Let's Schedule a phone call
Or let's chat now!
]]>