Bivo Podcast: Encouragement For Bivocational Pastors And Cell Church Ministers

My guest on the BiVo Podcast this month Tobi Omotayo is another Project Manager. When I first met him in Kingston Ontario, as a Masters Student at the Queens University, I was impressed by his love for God and for the things of God. Since then he has gotten married to his beautiful wife Egy … Continue reading BiVo Or Marketplace Ministry Discussion with Tobi Omotayo

My guest on the BiVo Podcast this month Cynthia Egbunonu is a busy Project Manager at her place of work. She shares how God has helped her work full-time at work, pastor with her husband, be a mom to three children and a wife to her husband. Listen and discover her secret.

My guest today on the BiVo Podcast is a good friend. I have known him since 2010. Over the past 10 years he has completed his PhD and started his own company. His testimony would bless you.

Have you ever felt like a failure in ministry even when you are doing well at your workplace? On this episode of the BiVo podcast, I share my thoughts and experience with this.

What does it really cost to follow Jesus and serve as a pastor? On this episode of the BiVo Podcast, I share some personal experiences of the cost and benefits of being a pastor!!!

I picked this book from the public library in Cornwall, Ontario. I thought I would take a look at it and read it sometime later. As soon as I started reading it, I knew that I would have to suspend the other books I was reading to finish this one. It has been a very … Continue reading Good Leaders Ask Great Questions – John Maxwell

When I first learned about the importance of having a God-inspired vision, I thought I had discovered something quite powerful. And yes it has really made a big impact on my life. What I did not learn at that time is that it is even more important to learn how to communicate my God-inspired vision … Continue reading Having a Great Vision is Fantastic but it’s not enough!

When I wake up in the morning and begin to run around doing what I have to do, I am often reminded that I need to be running the vision that is inspired by God not the one inspired by my ambition. I am amazed at the amount of impact (positive or negative) that an … Continue reading God-Inspired Vision or Ambition?

I came to Canada in December 2000 to get a Masters of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering. How did I end up as a pastor? How did I decided to leave all that training to pursue Ministry? How then did I decide to continue to earn money on the side as a BiVo Minister? … Continue reading How I Captured my God-Given Vision

Vision is your conviction of what the future looks like! It is a glimpse of what your future or that of your team looks like. Here are a few thoughts about vision for a BiVo Minister We don’t create our vision, we receive it from God. – We find in scriptures that God has a … Continue reading BiVo 034: We Recieve Vision – Not Create it!

One of the chapters in the book “Developing the Leader Within you 2.0” by John Maxwell is titled “The Indispensable Quality of Leadership: Vision”. In today’s episode of the BiVo Podcast, I share a few of the lessons I learnt from this chapter. I’ll start by defining Vision – Vision is your conviction of what … Continue reading BiVo033: Vision (People do what people see)

Pastoring is leadership! In pastoring, your goal is to encourage people to be all that God created them to be. You are called to encourage them, inspire them and influence them to accept the gift of salvation and become salt and light of the earth. As BiVo Pastors, we must learn to increase our level … Continue reading BiVo 032: How to increase your level of Leadership as a BiVo Pastor.

The BiVo Pastor or Minister must be a very good leader because ministry is “influence”. Dr Maxwell defines leadership primarily as “influence” in his book titled “Developing the Leader within you 2.0”. In todays episode of the BiVo Podcast, I share my thoughts on the concept of the 5 Levels of Leadership. Here are the … Continue reading BiVo 031: 5 Levels of Leadership – John Maxwell

In this episode I share more advantages of the BiVo Pastor. I also share some of what I took away from reading the book “Developing the Leader Within you 2.0” by John Maxwell.

In this episode, I draw your attention to the fact that as BiVo Pastors we are paid to share the gospel 40hrs a week. I also share some tips on how to do this more effectively. 1) Pray for a move of God in your ministry everydays as you pray for a worldwide move of … Continue reading BiVo029: BiVo Advantage – Paid to share the gospel 40hrs a week!!

In this episode, I share about the prelude to the 1857-1859 Prayer Revival. What did Jeremiah Lanphire a businessman do to make his noon time prayer meeting spread all over America in such a short time? How can a BiVo minister have a move of God in his or her ministry. God is always ready … Continue reading BiVo 028: Before the 1857 Prayer Revival

In this episode of the BiVo podcast, I share some of the advantages of being BiVo Ministers. One of which is a greater dependence on the move of God. I also shared the laymen’s prayer revival of 1857. Read more about this revival from the book. Revial Fire by Wesley Duewel

Sermon Preparation Tips Study scriptures regularly to have a clear understanding of the bigger picture Preach Jesus always even when teaching from the Old Testament Keep to your own personal style – Chuck Smith Preach or teach whole books if possible Use Bible commentaries to give you the different views concerning difficult scriptures Depend mostly … Continue reading BiVo026: More Sermon Tips

Sermon Preparation is a major part of our duties as pastors. On this episode of the BiVo podcast, I share a few tips on how I prepare a sermon even when I don’t have a lot of time all at once. Resources Blue Letter Bible

Sermon Preparation is a major part of our duties as pastors. On this episode of the BiVo podcast, I share a few tips about sermon preparation in general. What is the foundational thought behind a very good sermon?