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Write Good Emails
Email is a part of life. It is no longer new technology. Chances are you received dozens (if not more) everyday. Consider these email statistics: Statistics, extrapolations and counting by Radicati Group from April 2010 estimate the number of emails sent per day (in 2010) to be around 294 billion.294 billion messages per day means [...]
Continue reading...This Is Your Brain On Gadgets. Any Questions?
14 September 2010
What is your gadget doing to your brain? The gadget strapped to your belt right now (or the one that may be delivering this content to you right now) may actually be a tool of un-productivity as opposed to productivity. In this incredbily informative podcast offered by, er, um… (shall we say it?)… NPR, Matt [...]
Continue reading...Research Shows Pastors are Overworked
8 January 2010
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, [...]
Continue reading...The Procrastinating Preacher
22 October 2009
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. [...]
Continue reading...Never Say “Nothing”
14 May 2009
posted by Joel Southerland How do you deal with interruptions? The phone call. The drop-in. The IM interruption. Now, I’m not talking about the real interruption — like the emergency that must be dealt with. That’s not an interruption, that is ministry. The interruption is something that interrupts your work flow that could be put [...]
Continue reading...The Sermonators Ep 6 – 3 Ways to Control What’s Controlling You (Managing Inputs)
20 January 2009
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Press Play or Download mp3 In this episode we discuss an important principle of time management for busy pastors. How many “inputs” do you have? Are you controlling them or are they controlling you? Smith and Southerland give three keys ways to manage what tends to overwhelm us [...]
Continue reading...A Pastors Guide to Stress-Free Project Management
2 September 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Neglect the Sheep for the Goats
7 August 2008
posted by Scott Newton Smith “I handle the problems in my church from the pulpit,” the pastor said to me confidently. And he will get up there Sunday next thinking, “Boy, I’m really gonna tell ‘em today! This one will get ‘em.” He’s planning yet again to “fix” his opposition with a hard sermon. What [...]
Continue reading...The Sermonators Ep 4 – Three Ideas For Maximizing A Personal Assistant (also McDonalds vs. Starbucks)
6 June 2008
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 or press the play button above to stream audio. In this episode of The Sermonators, we discuss 3 key ideas for maximizing a personal assistant to streamline your workload and gain time in your week. Unless you already have these three ideas fully implemented, you could [...]
Continue reading...Mark Driscoll speaks about his time management habits and preaching
14 April 2008
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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