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Here’s some good thoughts on thinking through your flow of work/ministry.

PastorHacks: Workflow…

Here’s a good ministry hack from the best of pastoral productivity hacks out there.  I will be trying to incorporate a few of Bob’s ideas into my Windows/Outlook-based set.

PastorHacks: Contacting

The Sovereign Grace guys always produce helpful and insightful ministry podcasts - here’s the latest.

Leadership Interview Podcast #3

Dan gives some important and salient points about the inability to successfully measure the success of a pastor’s ministry this side of eternity.  Like him, I too noted with conviction Ligon Duncan’s statement at T4G that pastors are often looking for an interim report card on their ministries.  We will not find one.

Pyromaniacs: The hardest [...]

Just to keep the conversation going - here is Adrian Warnock’s post on Piper’s recent announcement that seminary education will be connected to Bethlehem Baptist Church.

adrianwarnock.com: John Piper To Start a Seminary at Bethlehem Church

Here’s an excellent discussion on why many ministerial students tend to drop their interest in pastoral ministry for that of being a professor.  I wonder how many of such students are receiving significant influence from local church pastors and congregations during their studies?

Sean Michael Lucas: Ministerial Students, Calling, and PhD Studies

HT: Justin Taylor
A good meditation for this Saturday for both Pastor and Flock.

Being a small church pastor, I will be looking into these videos in the next few weeks:

Videos From The Small Church Conference Now Online | Said at Southern Seminary

My DMin work is on this very subject. Jeff Moody points us to Dr. Mohler’s recently posted article advocating the primacy of the local church in the training of men for pastoral ministry.

Mohler on Church-Based Pastoral Training « SoCal Theologica: Theological Musings from the West Coast

As this post makes its way to THE CAPRANICA front page, I will be getting into Pastor James Billings’ car headed to meet Pastor Stacy Johnson (Lord willing and he is feeling better), and we will together make the hour and a half to two hour trip to LAX to catch a plane and an [...]

This past Wednesday during my quiet time, I finished reading D. A. Carson’s book, Memoirs of An Ordinary Pastor. I cannot think of a book in recent memory that has moved me so emotionally. I see myself as an ordinary pastor.  In fact, weeks before the book was published I wrote a [...]

Abraham Piper throws down the gauntlet and challenges pastors to blog.  O.K., this motivates me to blog more.  Well. . . we’ll see.

6 Reasons Pastors Should Blog :: Desiring God Blog

Are you an evangelistic pastor (that is if you are in fact a pastor)?   Here’s a few statistics worth thinking through.
Planting with Passion

I recently picked up this book and I’ve recently begun reading it in my quiet time.  I view myself as an ordinary pastor and very much enjoy the bliss of the ordinary.
Carson’s Moving Memoirs :: Desiring God Blog

This article does little to tempt me to be more hip.

The Hipper-Than-Thou Pastor - TIME

The first, on reading, was excellent - I am now listening to the second.  Great material.

Leadership Interview Series

Mohler has some good comments on how a man should discern if he is called to preach.  What often is left unsaid or said less solidly than Mohler’s comments is the role the congregation should play.  If the church cannot recognize a man’s call, he is more than likely not called.

Has God Called You? Discerning [...]

Have you read Desiring God’s article on their approach to ministry and money?  I finished this booklet yesterday and found it intriguing and am considering the implications of it for personal life and ministry.  To be quite honest, I support a number of different ministries financially, yet none other than Desiring God has been this [...]

Be sure to check out the new 9 Marks e-newsletter and the articles regarding “Challenges to the Gospel.”

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Tracing one’s time is a tool I often suggest to people when they are making the first steps in getting a hold on the use of their time. I regularly suggest that one begin with keeping a record of how they have spent their time during a week in thirty-minute increments. Go HERE [...]