Andrew Fountain - Manging your time

Sermon Outline - Managing your Time

Useful links to books and websites on managing your time

• Very practical suggestions from the Christian blogger Tim Challies
• Review of two Christian books on getting stuff done
• The classic work on managing your time Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
• A Christian gives practical advice on putting the important things first Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time
• A fun and well written book buy Chris Bailey, full of practical tips The Productivity Project

• The inventor of time management was a Christian
• 853-899 King of Western England www.famouslives.com/…reat.html
• The Saxons were not very sophisticated, very basic homes, no education, living off the land.
• The king would generally fight all day and get drunk all night
  • Not live in a palace but in a long-house
• Alfred became a Christian, and taught himself to read Latin so he could read the Bible.
  • Here was a problem—he wanted to study and spread the gospel
  • But he also had to rule the kingdom.
• He decided that he would spend:
  • 8 hours a day sleeping
  • 8 hours ruling the kingdom
  • 8 hours in study, prayer & reading the Bible and translating into English
• But how?
  • He invented one of the first known clocks.
  • Mark I was three different sized candles
  • Mark II was a single candle with gradulations down the side
• God blessed his rule in an amazing way
  • He came up with the idea of a Navy, which saved the kingdom from the Vikings
  • He not only defeated his Viking arch-enemy, but led him to salvation in Christ
  • He came up with the idea of the jury system

• God says at the end of this Psalm that he will establish the work of our hands, and what Alfred did with his time not only established Christianity in Britain, but over a thousand years later has impacted justice across the whole world.

Updated on 2017-11-09 by Andrew Fountain