Hey friends,
I am in full-fledged book writing mode over here. While I am really excited about this project, I am also feeling a lot of other emotions as well. Is this going to be any good? Am I behind? Will anyone care about this? My writing sucks. The list goes on.
This is something I have experienced before. Although, most of the writing I have done in my career has been preparing sermons. And that is essentially how this newsletter started. I missed writing sermons.
I had a lot of these similar feelings over the past 15 years, but most of the time those sermons were shared with a congregation and went into a file. Never to be seen or heard again. The stakes are much bigger this time. This will stay in the world forever, and its potential reach is limitless.
I am realizing that book writing is different. Much different. It is going to take some time figuring out. My sermons were typically about 3000 words, and I am comfortable with that. I learned very quickly to say the most that you…