I’ve got a sermon ideas folder to help with series and other possible messages I am putting together in the future (my goal is to have a basic framework of themes for a years work of sermons together), all that future oriented planning goes into this folder. These ideas go into either the inbox to be filed later or my folder “ Bag o’ tricks.” This folder is for inspiration, examples, parables, and other things that may (or may) not get tied into a sermon or put to use somewhere else. I use the universal inbox and bookmarklet to pull in images, quotes, documents, pdfs and other information I find on the web (or type of myself in a word processor). The beauty of DEVONthink is that it’s really easy to manage a lot of information and a variety of files types. RT tonysteward cwdaniels how do U organize UR sermons? // “ Dying to Self” Apple Spotlight lets me search content if needed Using DEVONthink to organize your Sermons I didn’t get a lot of responses but I found these helpful: So I asked my twitter friends what they have found helpful. I had been doing everything by month, but realized that it would make it difficult to maintain that kind of folder structure the longer I preach. What I am most interested in at the moment is organizing my sermons folder. Witness would be all the cultural and missional projects the meeting is involved in.) And community would include services, retreats, and other things like that. Doctrine would include membership, manuals, and sermons. Ethics would include peace and social concerns type stuff. (I have to admit I am tempted to change my structure to admin, ethics, doctrine, and witness following James McClendon’s three strands. I also have a sermons folder, a services folder, and a workshop/retreat folder. The missional folder is essentially my projects folder, everything that relates to life in and outside the meeting but that doesn’t pertain to sermons, worship services, etc.
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My admin folder contains things like elder’s minutes, expenses, membership, my minister’s manual I am compiling, a journal, etc. Currently, this is my system (though I’m open for more suggestions):Īnd here are some of the folders expanded: Well, after 6 months my ministry database is growing quickly enough that I’ve had to rethink some of how I organize it.
I personally use a handful of databases regularly to help me keep things organized: academics, publishing, home, blogging, and dissertation (for an alternative approach to this see Tony Stewards’ helpful video).
When I started pastoring I created a DEVONthink database for all things ministry oriented ((See my other posts on DTP here and here).
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