Offering Talks

8 Key Components of Effective Offering Talks

When you learn my 8 Key Components of Effective Offering Talks, you'll never be baffled by another offering! Here is a tip, the easiest way to increase giving at your church is through an effective offering time set up by a talk of 2 minutes or less. If you are looking at offering talks like a set of...


When Taking Up the Offering…Never Apologize!

If I could give you one piece of advice as you head into this week's offering time, it would be... When taking up the offering...Never Apologize! Before you think that you never do that, consider this. Do you ever before the offering is taken up say something like this...


A Labor Day Weekend Offering Talk

Do you have a Labor Day Weekend offering talk ready? If you are like most churches you never give the offering time much thought.


Why I Believe the Offering is Not Dead

“We won’t be passing an offering plate for the rest of 2020.”   That was what a pastor told me recently as we were talking about the steps they were taking to open back fully.  My guess is you are in the same boat. Is this the end of the offering?  Some might ask, wasn’t the offering doomed anyway with the rise of...


The 5 E’s to a Better Offering

Taking the 5 E's to a better offering will guarantee that your giving will go up.


When It Comes to the Offering, Be Creative

If you want to improve the amount you take up each week when it comes to the offering, be creative.


7 Points That Reveal Your Attitude About the Offering

When I start working with a church I always begin with how they take up the offering. Why? Your attitude about receiving the offering says everything about how you view biblical stewardship. Here is a true story.During the last crisis, The Great Recession, a top 50 church engaged my services to help them reverse a -3% decline...


5 Keys To a Better Offering Time

I want to give you 5 keys to a better offering time.  Every Friday I try to post something dedicated to some aspect of the offering.  I have written more on offerings and written more offering talks than any other person I know of.  Churches that have used my materials have raised much more than they did before. Here...


Don’t Make It About You

The other day I was thinking about how to connect with churches and I thought, don't make it about you. I had been writing materials, posts, advertising copy and emails. That is when it dawned on me. It was all about me! Buy this, download that, blah blah blah. I thought of a letter a...


34% of Churches Are in Trouble! Are You?

34% of churches in a recent LifeWay Research poll reported that giving has decline over 2019. That means, 34% of churches are in trouble! Are you?


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