Leadership

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HOW A PASTOR PLANS HIS PREACHING CALENDAR FOR THE COMING YEAR

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HOW A PASTOR PLANS HIS PREACHING CALENDAR FOR THE COMING YEAR

As a Senior Pastor, I try to spend the end of each year planning the next year’s Sunday sermons.

It helps both my brain and heart to begin the next calendar year with a plan in hand. 

Included in this blog is a step-by-step process for planning a year of pulpit work and a look at the tentative sermon plan for 2024 at First Baptist Church in Clinton, MO.

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THE CANARIES IN THE CHURCH MINE

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THE CANARIES IN THE CHURCH MINE

THE IDIOM “CANARY IN A COAL MINE” REFERS TO SOMEONE OR SOMETHING THAT IS AN EARLY WARNING SIGN OF DANGER.

Wouldn’t it be great if pastors had a similar early-warning system for then a church has drifted from her Great Commission calling? I may have discovered one…