Men with busy schedules are not uncommon and trying to squeeze in time to prepare for family worship can be tough. In this clip, Joel Beeke gives a few points of advice for busy fathers to help them to effectively lead their families in family worship. 

Fathers are busy. They've got a full-time job. They've got all kinds of responsibilities. A lot of the fathers here are elders or deacons or ministers as well. I think the best preparation to really be effective at family worship is to be prayerful yourself and to have a secret life of communion with God and feel the burden of the souls of your children.

And the second probably most important thing is be widely read. Read as much as you can about all kinds of spiritual matters and practical matters and be well versed about your children's needs just through reading and let the family worship flow out of the spontaneity and the overflow of that kind of preparation. Now ideally, of course, a father should, you know, get up 20 minutes early every morning and look at the chapter he's going to do for family worship that evening and spend some time thinking about it, maybe checking a commentary or two. I mean, that would be wonderful. Praise God for fathers that do that.

But most fathers find that very difficult to do. And so I think the overall preparation is important as well.