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Research Shows Pastors are Overworked

8 January 2010

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New Lifeway research shows that Pastors are severely overworked. It is to the point that many Pastors spend little to no time in prayer or personal spiritual disciplines. How can we lead the flock God has given us if we are running on EMPTY?? I don’t know if you make New Year’s Resolutions or not, [...]

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The Procrastinating Preacher

22 October 2009

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by Joel Southerland Preachers can be the worst procrastinators around. We have all these tasks that need to be done and there are notes and scribbles and mental To-Do lists everywhere of things we need to do . . . . eventually! When we live in that constant state of procrastination it is extremely stressful. [...]

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A Pastors Guide to Stress-Free Project Management

2 September 2008

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posted by Joel Southerland When a special day, project, meeting or event looms on the horizon it can create great amounts of stress for the pastor. The planning, promoting, and organizing can add to the workload of an already frazzled minister (not sure if “frazzled” is a word but you know it when you’re in [...]

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Get “Sick,” Pastor! How to take a huge 60-second leap in organization

15 May 2008

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Posted by Joel Southerland Ok, this isn’t going to sound flashy. It is not going to make for great conversation at the ministerial luncheon this Wednesday. It is not going to get you invited to speak on the platform at the next denominational meeting. But, here is what it will do: It will take stress [...]

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Mark Driscoll speaks about his time management habits and preaching

14 April 2008

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posted by Scott Newton Smith Up front disclaimer: We’re not endorsing nor bashing Driscoll here at The Sermonators. We’re not groupies for any particular preacher “celeb.” You won’t find us pushing a particular preacher, nor a group of them. That’s not what this site (or our show) is about. Our job is to find and [...]

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Make Yourself Indispensable

1 April 2008

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Posted by Joel Southerland One thing I have noticed over the years is that a great preacher rarely gets dismissed from his church or gets asked to leave (of course there are always exceptions). In conjunction with that, the pastor who accomplishes much for the Church and Kingdom rarely runs into serious trouble.  Now, it [...]

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The Sermonators Episode 0 – The “Who and Why” of The Sermonators

19 February 2008

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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download the mp3 or click the play button above to stream. This is our pre-launch episode to introduce the format of The Sermonators Internet Radio Show (a.k.a. podcast) as well as introducing the hosts, Smith and Southerland, (a.k.a. Scott and Joel).  You can read about the guys on [...]

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