With Danger Close, you have a partner that is dedicated to working harder so you can work smarter. Imagine sitting down to craft your next sermon with historical context, illustration ideas and insights from the original Hebrew and/or Greek at your finger tips in the form of a detailed executive summary specifically created for your ministry needs. Then imagine having someone on standby to advise how you could best deploy those findings in a way that will connect with your congregation. This is why Danger Close is more than a service. It’s a partnership. We are led by our passion to see pastors preaching the Gospel without compromise.

Let's craft your next sermon together.

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While we approach every relationship on an individual basis, here are the services we offer to help your weekly teaching responsibilities.

Custom tailored research, illustrations, and creative content to meet your ministry’s specific needs. Our findings accelerate your ability to craft innovative messages that align with your ministry goals.

Research

Simply getting your hands on new content and information isn’t enough. We work closely with Gospel communicators to ensure our research findings can be communicated in a manner that aligns with their ministry style.

Equip

We help churches by creating sustainable preaching calendars that align with their ministry goals. Without a clear plan, preaching week to week can become exhausting. Let us help you get ahead with a well formed plan and the elimination of unnecessary stress!

Strategy

Danger Close offers a trustworthy and helpful environment for pastors seeking honest and constructive feedback to hone their preaching skills. We create a growth environment that is both faith filled and professional.

Evaluate

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, build a team. Danger Close offers training for the rising communicators in your church. This helps build a strong in-house preaching team which is essential for healthy and sustainable ministry rhythms.

Train

Mastering balance, rhythm, and pace positions leaders to go on the offensive... and Joe Riddle is an invaluable asset to any team desiring to do exactly that! Life offers limited choices, but selecting influencers of your personal and leadership journey is within your control. We've been blessed to have Joe in the fight with us, and he is sure to be a remarkable blessing for your journey as well.

Jesse Eisenhart, Senior Pastor of True North Church

A relational process built around your context.

01. Consultation

First, our team will connect with you to discuss the details of your sermon or preaching series. We take the time to have a full understanding of the subject, context and vision for your next sermon. Determining details like whether the sermon is topical or expositional, for example, informs exactly how we can be the most effective partner.

02. Research

Once we get a full understanding of your research needs, we get right to work. We dig into the context, linguistic nuances and other relevant information based on what you are trying to communicate to your congregation. After our research is completed, you receive our curated findings in a detailed, convenient executive summary.

03. Strategy

Our process doesn’t end with just providing information. It’s been said that “knowing is half the battle” and we believe the other half is having an effective strategy. After we deliver the executive summary, we confer with you on how to most effectively deploy those findings. These conversations can range from sculpting series/book titles to developing powerful illustrations or even properly pronouncing an essential Greek word. We are committed to getting you to the finish line.

A whole lot can ride on a single conversation. The same is true of sermons. Whether it’s an annual vision sermon or your Easter or Christmas message, there are times you want a partner that will be an extra pair of eyes on a single crucial message.

Single Sermon Consultation

Sometimes you want to take your community on a journey through Scripture and it will take more than one Sunday morning to do it. We help ensure that your three to four week series not only stays on topic, but that it strategically leads to the destination you intended in week one. When it comes to your teaching series, don’t settle for “clear as mud.” We’ll help you get to where you are going.

Teaching Series

We believe the annual partnership is where our best work unfolds. As we work with ministry partners for a full year we are able to help strategize the annual preaching calendar, train up multiple communicators on a church staff, get ahead in sermon planning so other ministry teams in the church have ample time to create graphics, videos, and other creative elements. We can even show partners how to do the research they repeatedly enjoy and use for themselves at the end of a partnership– we don’t want to create co-dependent ministry relationships. We want to equip and launch pastors into greater seasons of ministerial fruitfulness than they have ever known.

Yearly Partnership

While the focus of the Danger Close mission is weekly preaching, our partnership is not limited to sermons. Whether you are writing content for a book or making a curriculum for Bible study, we can help provide the curated research you need for your process. You can be confident that your content is built on foundational, orthodox truth found in Scripture.

Curriculum Development / Book Research

There are several different ways to partner with Danger Close.