I just read Stephen King’s, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I read the book because I have some major-for-me writing projects on the go. As I began to read King, I immediately noticed how much he said applied to preparing sermons. On page 131 he writes, “Writing is refined thinking.” Typing out sermons gives us the opportunity to continually refine our thinking until we lay the manuscript aside and preach. After spending time last month with three classes of preaching students of all stages of ministry, I was struck again by how many do not type out (or write out) their sermons. Because “writing is refined thinking,” I recommend that you select a couple of key places in your sermon and commit them to the screen/page. As you write those sections out, see if the process doesn’t help you refine your thinking and preaching.