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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, but if you [...]

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Sermonators Episode 8 | The Ultimate Virtual Filing System For Sermon Resources (And Your Entire Office)

24 August 2009

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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In this episode, Smith and Southerland interview Pastor Brad Whitt about his amazing filing system that allows him to categorize and file everything:  illustrations, old sermons, digital audio files, books and even old preaching tapes. And he can retrieve any of it by simply typing in a keyword or [...]

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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 it). One [...]

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The Sermonators Ep 4 – Three Ideas For Maximizing A Personal Assistant (also McDonalds vs. Starbucks)

6 June 2008

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[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 gain [...]

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