The Productive Pastor

How well are your sermons planned for 2024? I'm working on mine in the same way I have for years.

Here's how I am doing it.

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So what do you want out of 2024?

That's a big question.

Specific outcome + tangible actions = transformation

I love that mental model. So let's apply it into planning for our ministry year.

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Do you ever get in a funk? In this episode, I share 4 ways to get out of work funks.

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So how do you work sermon preparation in around the ups and downs of a ministry schedule?

You prep to preach!

In this episode I share the things I have learned over the last 15 years to develop efficency in both presentation and preparation.

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How often do you think about follow-up sequences in church? Sure, we want to follow up with guests. But what about a few other things? In this episode, I go into how we can think through follow-up using 3 different levels of belonging and how it helps us to strategize.

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Ministry weeks are all different. But I think the majority of them can fall into three different categories. The normal week, the light week, and the different week. Let's unpack them all and what it takes to do them well.

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What role do our values play in decision making?

The better we know ourselves, the better (and easier) decisions will be. Especially the tough ones.

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No secret.

I am a massive fan of the cliftonstrengths assessment. I have been for a long time, but a few years ago it began to shift in both it't importance and how I use it.

Here are 5 ways it helps me enhance my productivity AND keep me doing so in a healthy way.

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What is my absolute basic productivity stack?

Three things. And they have been at the core of my system for pushing 20 years.

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Back this week with an episode from the vault. From 2014-2019, Productive Pastor released 100 episodes. Since I have been FULL this week, I'm pulling out a great episode from those archives and sharing it with you.

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