Today I’m excited to share with you something that has been really helpful for me to increase my focus, productivity, and organization as a pastor. It’s a simple but effective tool that I made for myself that I am calling the Pastor’s Planner. It’s just a few pieces of paper stuck into a small notebook,…
“I’m too busy.” How many times have you said that phrase in the last month? If you’re in ministry, I know this: You’re busy, and you need more time to rest. We all have 24 hours a day, but today those hours seem to go by faster than ever. Everything and everyone is fighting for…
How can I balance ministry and family? It’s a question that burns in the hearts of a lot of pastors and ministry workers. Until Jesus returns, the work of ministry is never finished. There’s always another person to reach and another sermon to preach. If you let it, your ministry will overtake all of your…
I have an idea that I want to run by you. Here’s the problem: most pastors are doing too much. If you are like most pastors, you wear too many hats. You are the pastor, counselor, administrator, volunteer coordinator, fundraiser, evangelist, community service coordinator, janitor, Bible study leader, small group coordinator, website administrator, and graphic…
In this episode, you’ll learn fifteen productivity tips for pastors to help you get more done in less time and also focus on the right things. Pastors have more to do than they have time to do it all. Our work of ministry will continue until either we die or Jesus comes back first. There’s…
Do you ever feel like your work is never done? There’s always more emails to write, more meetings to prepare for, more people to contact. There’s just so much stuff on your plate that you can never get it all done. If so, you’re normal. But today I want to give you a few productivity…
In economics, there is a principle called the law of diminishing returns. Put simply, the law states that after reaching a certain threshold, the input yields less output than before. For example, imagine you own a busy coffee shop. You find that one employee can make say 25 cups of coffee per hour. You hire…
How much time should a pastor spend each week preparing their sermon? I have heard seminary professors say that you should spend an hour for every minute you preach. But by that logic, a 30-minute sermon would require 30 hours! So how much time should you spend on sermon prep? The short answer is: there’s…
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