Tag Archives: Productivity

This series is becoming increasingly practice oriented. As it does, I think it is important to note that my approach is merely a recommendation, one recommendation among so many available today. It’s not important that you emulate my approach, but you do need some theologically informed approach to time management, a custom‐designed approach that incorporates your particular roles and goals into your weekly or monthly schedule. So let me explain how the specific goals work in relation to each of…

Have you ever looked at an empty calendar and asked yourself, “What am I supposed to be doing right now?” Have you looked at a calendar filled to the brim with 25 hours of things to do each day and asked yourself, “What am I supposed to be doing right now?” By themselves, neither empty schedules nor suffocating schedules help clarify our daily priorities. But identifying our God‐ordained roles will. And if you are following along in this blog series,…

For several weeks on this blog we have been considering the topic of biblical productivity. We started by understanding how Scripture defines procrastination. Then we transitioned to a discussion about roles, goals, and scheduling. In the previous two posts we talked about roles. Today we begin looking at the topic of goals. With each of our God‐assigned roles, God assigns us specific goals. Open your Bible and begin reading and within a few pages you will discover the genesis of…

Not long ago I was awake in the middle of the night, reading and enjoying the silence. Except I kept hearing a sound. Tap…Tap…Tap. It sounded like dripping water. But from where? A short search led me to our main‐level bathroom, where the dripping noise was the loudest. Crouching down, I opened the cabinet doors under the sink and discovered a little puddle of water in the cabinet. The problem was easy to see: The drip was coming from the…

It’s not hard for us to imagine that pastors and church planters are called by God. This is clear to us throughout Scripture. So when we come across the first verse in Romans, where Paul says he was “called to be an apostle” (ESV), we have no problem with this. But what about the rest of us? What about a stay‐at‐home mom with two kids? What about an auto mechanic? How about a real estate agent and a business owner?…