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Preach Like Mike
Schmitz.
Name one hidden habit, define it, answer the objection, and give a practice for this week.
- ✓6 of his sermons, studied start to finish
- ✓Ten steps to preach the way he did
- ✓A fill-in outline in his shape, 9 pages
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— Why he’s one of the greats
Name one hidden habit, define it, answer the objection, and give a practice for this week.
The podcast and YouTube era of Catholic catechesis. Fr. Mike Schmitz was ordained for the Diocese of Duluth in 2003 and serves as chaplain of the Newman Catholic Campus Ministry at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where his Sunday homilies are filmed and posted every week. Since 2015 he has hosted Ascension Presents on YouTube, and since 2021 the daily Bible in a Year podcast. His secret: he preaches like a man talking with one student across a table. Every homily names one hidden habit or one missing habit of the heart, gives it a sticky label (“blind spots,” “eternal perspective”), defines it with a word study or a borrowed definition, answers the objection a listener is already forming, and ends with a short practice to try this week. He stacks voices freely: a saint, a C.S. Lewis line, a study, a TikTok lawyer, a story from his own campus. He tells all of it in plain, self-mocking speech that never sounds like a lecture.
- 2003Ordained a priest for the Diocese of Duluth
- #1All U.S. Apple podcasts, January 2021
- 1B+Bible in a Year all-time downloads
What makes his style unique
“Each homily ran for somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes, but the priest managed to hold my attention the entire time.”
— Who wrote this
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What’s inside
Preach Like Mike Schmitz — Name one hidden habit, define it, answer the objection, and give a practice for this week..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does6 of his sermons, studied start to finish, and the shape they share.
- 03How he does itTen steps to preach the way he did.
- 04His outlineWhere the time goes, movement by movement.
- 05Write one like Mike SchmitzA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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