Can I tell you about a sermon in which I recovered my voice? There was a season in the life of Good Shepherd, stretching from, say 2007 – 2010, in which I had learned the technique of a one point sermon. So that was progress. However, during that same time I had...
Last Tuesday, the book Simplify The Message; Multiply The Impact officially "dropped." Then this Tuesday -- otherwise known as today -- the website www.simplifythemessage.com goes "live." For the last several years, that space had been www.talbotdavis.com. But with...
Yesterday was a good day. First, Simplify The Message; Multiply The Impact had its official release. Second, I was able to celebrate that release by leading a Simplify The Message Workshop in Asheboro, North Carolina, for thirty-one United Methodist pastors eager to...
Today is the day. Simplify The Message; Multiply The Impact officially releases. Drops. Debuts. Sells. Whatever the verb, today is the day it goes official. I've had my "author copies" for a couple of weeks and this is the day for wider distribution. Here are five...
Yesterday's message ... Embodied no little bit of irony. Two days before the official release of "Simplify The Message; Multiply The Impact," a book for all practical purposes on designing and delivering one point sermons, my sermon yesterday featured four ......
My love language is Words Of Affirmation. (If you don’t understand that reference, check out Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages where you’ll see that all of us speak & receive love through one of the following: physical touch, quality time, acts of service,...
I still remember a conversation that, paradoxically, led me into full-time ministry. I was 24 at the time, and working at the Princeton, New Jersey office of the United States Tennis Association. As part of my duties, I gave presentations to physical educators,...
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is one of the most portrayed characters in the history of fiction, film, and stage. Doyle’s four novels and fifty-six short stories involving Scotland Yard’s favorite sleuth have multiplied into hundreds of movies, television...
Yesterday's message ... Had a moment of crisis at the 8:30 service when I brought the WRONG BIBLE into the Worship Center. By "wrong bible" I mean the one without the Scripture printed in TWENTY-TWO point font and taped into it so I can read it easily while...
It's Friday and I'm already pretty keyed up for Sunday. Why? Because we get to look at what is at the same time THE MOST BEAUTIFUL and LEAST FOLLOWED verse in Scripture. Huh? To see what I mean -- and to know the Scripture in question -- it's Sunday. 8:30, 10, 11:30...