The Shepherd's Guild
The preaching craft, made visible.
A big part of my ministry burden has to do with helping pastors serve their local churches with joy, backbone, and excellence. The Shepherd's Guild is the culmination of 30 years of thinking about the nature of preaching.
The Guild decomposes a pastor's own sermon archive into a rhetorical profile — theological emphases, illustration patterns, a preaching fingerprint — and sets it alongside the masters so preachers can grow in their own voice. Rather than handing a preacher someone else's style, it holds up a mirror to his own, then sets that profile beside the great preachers of the last four centuries so he can see clearly where he is strong, where he is growing, and where his distinctive voice is meant to deepen.
It is, in the end, an apprenticeship — the kind of patient, particular coaching most of us never received, made visible and made personal.