What Does Trusting God with Marketing Look Like?

I have a confession to make. I’ve always been a wimp when it comes to trusting God with marketing. You probably are, too. Most of us suffer from this illness. We sit back and say: I trust God to grow my ministry. How is that wimpy, you say? Well, let me illustrate by telling you [...]

Use Your Words: When Your Speaking Ministry Stresses You Out

Today on Use Your Words we talked stress. Usually I give  you some pep talk about marketing, or planning a talk, but I thought it was important to touch on something all of us deal with, but rarely talk about: how draining ministry is. And speaking ministry has its own unique stresses! Every Tuesday I [...]

Telling the Gospel to Those Who Haven’t Heard It

I’m sorry that my posts have been infrequent lately–I’m trying to take some time with family this summer, because my year coming up is going to be so busy! But I have some things on my mind that I thought I would share with you. One of the things that happens once a speaker has [...]

Is It “Unspiritual” To Charge a Fee When You Speak?

photo © 2008 Horia Varlan | more info (via: Wylio) I’ve been conducting speaker training for two years now. Most of you who come to this site truly want to speak in the Christian world. You want to speak in churches, at camps, to youth groups. You want to make a difference for God. You [...]

When Your Ministry is Attacked Online

photo © 2009 Nathan Siemers | more info (via: Wylio) Recently a blog held a contest for the “25 Best Faith Blogs”. Somehow a ton of pagan blogs got on the list, along with a bunch of Christian mom blogs, and a voting war started between the pagan blogs and the Christian ones. It got [...]

Don’t Give Up!

I wrote a post earlier this week about what to when you feel like giving up. I wrote it in the context of one who is overburdened and tired of the effort. But there is another aspect to feeling like giving up; there is also the one who does not feel like they are ever [...]

When You Feel Like Giving Up

I wrote this post while speaking at a weekend retreat recently. It is a Saturday afternoon as I write this, and I am sitting on a dock in eastern Ontario, watching six geese fight it out on a lake. The air is filled with the sounds of birds, and the crystal clear lake seems to [...]

Use Your Words: Clarifying Your Goals

Every Tuesday I’m on the Christian Women Affiliate radio network on BlogTalkRadio to talk about building your speaking ministry! You can listen for FREE, so do tune in, or listen after the fact to the archives. You can find this week’s show here. Here’s the low-down on this week’s show! Basically, you need to know [...]

What if the Speaking Requests Aren’t Rushing In?

My friend Candy Troutman just posted a very important quote on our Facebook Page’s wall: When the speaking invitations don’t rush in, remember that God is more interested in your character than your calendar. ~ Georgia Shaffer So true! It can be very difficult when you feel called to speak, and you want to speak, [...]

Giving God Your Best

Yesterday I hosted 15 teenagers at my house for 9 hours. I deserve a medal. They’re all part of the Bible quizzing program I run at our church. We have five different teams who compete four times a year at regional meets. It sounds extremely geeky (this year they’re working on the book of John), [...]