Your weekly roundup of insights and resources to help you get more done for the glory of God.
In Today’s Issue:
- Free Plan Your Year Workshop
- How to Simplify Your Life
- Making the Best of Imperfect Decisions
- Benefits of Writing Your Sermons (Really) Early
- How to Make the Most of Small Chunks of Time
Dear steward,
Next Friday, December 13th, I’m hosting an annual planning workshop. I’d love to have you join us!
In this webinar, I’ll walk you through a step-by-step process for crafting a Christ-honoring plan for 2025.
The event is free, but you do need to register to secure your spot. I’ll be making a few special announcements on the call, so I’d encourage you to be there live!
For full details and to secure your spot:
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THE ROUNDUP
The best links I found this week
How to Simplify Your Life (43 mins)
Elisabeth Elliot
This is from a talk Elisabeth Elliot delivered in 1992. Life has only gotten more busy, cluttered, and chaotic in the intervening decades, but Elliot’s solution still holds: You have to get clear before you get organized.
If our lives are really cluttered to the point that we are feeling a little cluttered or desperate at times, then something is wrong, something is very radically wrong. What is it, exactly? It probably comes down to the fact that you’ve probably never really figured out what you want in life.
How to Make the Best Imperfect Decision (2 mins)
Justin N. Poythress / Time and Chance
Perhaps the most beautiful reality of God and Christianity is unity through diversity. That’s also how wisdom works. Notice this proverb doesn’t say “listen to your heart.” It doesn’t even say “find one mentor you trust.” It says with many advisers your plans will succeed.
Benefits of writing sermons (really really) early (5 mins)
Stephen Kneale / Building Jerusalem
I was chatting recently with another pastor about my freakish approach to sermon writing. I do accept I am the weirdo here. I am currently writing manuscripts that will not be delivered until sometime in February. So, whilst this coming Sunday we will be preaching from Titus (though I won’t be the one preaching it), I am currently preparing sermon in 1 Corinthians which we won’t begin until several weeks into the New Year.
WHAT’S NEW ON
Redeeming Productivity
13 Ways to Redeem Small Pockets of Time (25 mins)
Tiny pockets of time—5, 10, 15 minutes—add up. Redeeming the pockets of time means not wasting them but employing them well to serve Christ, love our neighbors, and steward these lives for the glory of God.
A DOSE OF WISDOM
Quote of the Week
For the Lord gives wisdom;
Proverbs 2:6-7
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
FINAL WORD
Thanks for reading!
Reagan Rose
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