Welcome to McKayCaston.com
Get ready to wake up to sermon prep with confidence, enthusiasm, and expectation.
You'll prep in less time and peach with more impact—guaranteed.
You don't need points. You need a path.
That's the PPGR Preaching System®—a biblically rooted, gospel-shaped framework that helps you trade lecture-style outlines for life-changing encounters with the Scriptures.
By taking listeners on a journey from the text, to the heart, through the cross, and into new life.
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The PPGR pathway allows you to:
✅ Get instant traction — prep flows intuitively, without scattered notes.
✅ Skip the guesswork — save hours, without complicated Bible software.
✅ Say goodbye to overwhelm — enjoy the process, without cramming on Saturday night.
Embraced by pastors across the US and in over 10 countries, the PPGR Preaching System® uses a proven, 4-layer gospel DNA framework.
Sermons are not lectures designed to merely inform the head.
They are designed to lead people on a redemptive journey that changes the heart.
At its best, a 3-point sermon will hit the first two or three stops on the journey—but will often leave off or minimize the fourth movement of grace—where spiritual transformation comes alive.
That's why PPGR isn’t just a better outline.
It’s a distinctively biblical, gospel-shaped framework that mirrors how spiritual change actually takes place.
If 3-point sermons are holding you back from maximizing the redemptive impact of your preaching, trade the points for the intuitive, easy-to-follow path of the PPGR framework.
Here's how we'll plan the perfect prep week:
🧱 STEP 1: Design your week with the 3-Block Prep Method™
📚 STEP 2: Generate your sermon prep guide with the PPGR 60-Minute Exegesis Guide™
🧰 STEP 3: Craft your message in the Sermon Builder Studio™
📊 STEP 4: Utilize the PPGR Sermon Optimizer™—and receive a detailed improvement report (before you preach!)
You’ll have all the tools, coaching, and community you need to keep going, week after week.
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Here's the Secret
🔵 Rather than use a 3-point outline → you'll use a 4-layer gospel framework.
🔴 Rather than need more time → you'll just need one word.
🟡 Rather than clear a new trail each week → you'll follow a pre-cut path.
🟢 Rather than preach grace as merely a fallback for failure → you'll preach grace as fuel for spiritual change!
All plans include the original PPGR system—plus the AI supercharged PPGR360 OS™.
"This is the greatest sermon prep tool I've ever seen!" — DW, pastor in Virginia, USA
Real transformation.
"I'm never going back!" — pastor in Italy
"I preached my first PPGR sermon today. Someone told me it was the best message I've ever preached!" — DM message on X
"The PPGR system has totally revolutionized my ministry." — church planter in Poland
"Shaving hours off my prep time is a small blessing compared to the change I'm seeing in members of our congregation." — pastor in New Hampshire, USA
"I can't believe how intuitive this is!” – recent statement from a pastor in a 1:1 coaching session
“It’s been a long time since I felt this productive on a Monday." - recent email from a pastor new to the system
"Finally, a cure for my sermon prep ADD!" - social post from a pastor in Tennessee, USA
"I love that simply following the system guarantees that I tie everything to the cross so that application is grace-motivated and Spirit-empowered!" - pastor in California, USA
"Someone said it was my best sermon in 15 years." — email from a pastor in Florida, USA
If you're ready to make your next sermon your best sermon...
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đź‘‹ Hi, I'm McKay!
Originally from Memphis, I spent my high school years in Mississippi and now live in Dahlonega, GA, where I love to spend time with my family and hike the southern Appalachian mountains of north Georgia. As a former pastor of 26 years, seminary professor, and author, I now lead a new 501c3 nonprofit ministry, Cross-Tethered Preaching.
If you're a pastor or lay teacher, you'll want to check that out.
Of course, I still write what I hope are practically helpful books, which you'll find here at mckaycaston.com.
Here's some more info about me.
FAMILY
- Kristy and I have been married for 32 years.
- We are grateful parents to three adult children (28, 26, and 20).
MINISTRY JOURNEY
- My ministry path has taken me through various contexts:
- Memphis, TN (urban)
- Tupelo, MS (small town)
- Greenwood, MS (rural farming community)
- Atlanta, GA (suburban)
- Dahlonega, GA (small college town), where I spent 12 years as a church planter and founding pastor.
- In addition to leading CTP, I teach homiletics and theology for Metro Atlanta Seminary.
EDUCATION
- I graduated from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1991 with a BA in history and literature.
- I completed an MDiv at Covenant Seminary in 1994.
- I also have a PhD in Expository Preaching and DMin in Gospel Renewal.
PHILOSOPHY OF MINISTRY
My life mission is to help people, especially pastors like me, help others come alive to the wonder, beauty, and transforming power of God’s grace by tethering every sermon, lesson, Bible study, devotion, etc., to the cross of the risen and reigning Jesus.
Of course, for preachers to communicate this way, we need to be tethered to the cross ourselves—as sons before servants, abiding in Jesus as our perfect righteousness. In this way, preaching the cross of Jesus becomes the overflow of a grace-saturated, Jesus-centered, Father-dependent, Spirit-filled life.
To that end, my hope is that mckaycaston.com and Cross-Tethered Preaching will not only help you preach cross-tethered sermons but also live a cross-tethered life.
