• Share Your Story

    Afraid to write your story? You are not alone.

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    It’s a new year and time to make it a point this year to write your story: yet that pesky monster of rejection is always looming over your shoulder, convincing you (and other authors) that your stories aren’t worth sharing with others. Regularly, I come across manuscripts where authors say they have struggled with whether to publish their books or not, mainly due to the fear of no one reading their stories. Our question though for these authors (and all authors for that matter) is; how do you know that your biography, your children’s book, your book on being a…

  • Visions

    Visions from God are worth publishing for the world to see

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    When visions occur in a person’s life, they can be an experience as simple as seeing a future event before it happens to visions that change the course of a person’s existence. Visions from God, especially those manifesting heaven and/or hell, can be revelations that will incite spiritual change within a person, possibly towards salvation and a relationship with the Heavenly Father. Celebrating that life-changing vision within the pages of a published testimony is one that can be meaningful, and also effective, in communicating to readers the importance of a connection with Jesus. However, understandably expressing this experience can be…

  • How authors can overcome their doubt

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    Recently, I’ve been blessed to work with a number of authors in one-on-one coaching sessions. In helping them begin their publishing journeys, I’ve needed to help them overcome the obstacles of doubt and lack of confidence. Despite having excellent ideas for their writing, many struggled in thinking their book would ever matter. I noticed four areas where lack of confidence was most evident: Doubt in their writing abilities. Doubt in their message or story. Doubt their book would ever sell. Doubt their book would have an impact on the lives of others. Do you sometimes feel these too? One aspect…

  • Xulon Press, Pastor Appreciation Month

    Reaching Other Congregations Through Your Published Sermon

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    The greatest reward to a pastor is knowing that the words of his/her sermon have impacted the congregation, primarily with their current relationship with Jesus Christ or if they seek to establish a relationship with their Savior. Given these positive, life-changing responses to the sermon, it will then only be a matter of time before the thought arises of publishing the sermon (or sermon series) as a professional book. The month of October is Pastor Appreciation Month, and what better way to commemorate the month than for our beloved pastors to impart their spoken words from God into published words.…