If your audience finds your message irrelevant or struggles to see the relevance, they’ll likely tune it out. To avoid this, we need to make sure we’ve taken time to…

Is Anybody Listening? Do ever get the feeling that everybody’s talking but nobody’s really listening? The daily influx of clutter, distractions, and decisions increases at a steady pace. We’ve got…

In Part 2, you will go through the ways to use the foundational phrase in the first point of your presentation. We covered the niche and the foundational phrase in…

What are you passionate about? What could you speak or write on that you would forget to eat a meal or stay up late to prepare for it? That’s your…

In the past couple of weeks our lives have been turned upside-down due to the unanticipated invasion of COVID-19.  I’ve seen empty shelves, anxious parents, fear of the future, loss…

Anxiety and Coronavirus You can’t run from it. You can’t hide from it. You are surrounded by one thing—the coronavirus. It seems as if every channel you watch has 24/7…

What-if? Just what if a slight move or turn would create a shift in our thinking that freed us to see from a new perspective and make space for fresh…

Do you ever feel like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders? More specifically, the weight of your calling on your shoulders? You have sensed a calling…

Sometimes we forget we’re called. When pressure comes or ministry events don’t turn out as we hoped or expected, we can begin making much of ourselves and little of Jesus.…

 In case you didn’t read How to Craft an Introduction for Your Speaking Engagement, Part 1, here are the main points from it:  Begin with a bang.                    Avoid “unpleasant pleasantries.” Don’t…

“I can’t speak for you this weekend, ma’am. I don’t have anything to say, and no one wants to hear me anyway.” “Yvonne, you do have something to say, and…