TS&TT: Living Intentionally with the Time God Gives Us

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today on The Sword & The Trowel podcast, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden discuss time and how as Christians we need to be diligent in stewarding the time and tasks that God has given to us. They talk about slothfulness, faithfulness, and properly prioritizing your time in different seasons of life. SHOW NOTES: Get 10% off Miller's Grove Soap with code "FOUNDERS": https://TheMillersGrove.com Pre-Order "The Baptist Catechism": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-baptist-catechism/ Ready to plan your next event? Contact Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center: https://LYBCC.com Register for the 2026 National Founders Conference - Make Disciples: https://founders.org/conference/ Register for the Founders Single Event: https://founders.org/conference/ Pre-Order "The Law for the Lawless": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-law-for-the-lawless/ Founders Ministries: https://founders.org Support the Work of Founders: https://founders.org/give https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/https://twitter.com/FoundersMinhttps://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for this episode of The Sword and the Trowel.
0:02.8	Today, Pastor Tom and I talk about time and diligence, ways to not be slothful,
0:07.3	and also to prioritize your time when you think about the different tasks that the Lord has given you as a Christian.
0:13.3	I hope it's a helpful conversation to you. Take a listen.
0:19.0	Welcome to The Sword and the Trowel. The and the Trial is a podcast of founders' ministries
0:22.6	and founders exist for the recovery of the gospel and the reformation of local churches. I'm
0:26.5	Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askell. And today we want to talk to you about time, diligence, faithfulness,
0:33.9	productivity, all those things that we're faced with on a daily basis. I hope it's a helpful
0:39.0	conversation. But before we talk about that, this episode is brought to you by the Miller's Grove
0:43.9	Soap Company and the Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center. Two great companies, great institutions.
0:49.6	We encourage you to check them out. Very good. And you've just wasted 30 seconds of this podcast, talking about all that, Graham.
0:56.0	No, it's not a waste.
0:57.0	No, it's not a waste.
0:58.0	You're right.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	Time is fascinating.
1:01.0	It's a creation.
1:02.0	And so that in itself is a fascinating concept to think of how God, who is time-less, created time, and we live within time and can relate to him because of what he has done in space and time.
1:18.6	So all of those things go into it, and it makes us then consider what does it mean to be a steward of time as we are of every other part of creation?
1:29.8	I like to call time a creature because it's a little bit more jarring to the mind when you think
1:34.9	about time being a creature. Because often we think about time as being this overarching,
1:39.8	transcendent thing that even God himself is subject to. He lives in some sort of divine time, but he doesn't.
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