Angie Arndt

“Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them.
"If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“So what do you do when you are stuck?

The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m not talking about a quick, Help me Lord, Sunday’s a comin’ prayer. When I get stuck I get up from my desk to head for my closet. Literally. If I‘m at the office I go over to a corner that I have deemed my closet away from home. I get on my knees and remind God that this was not my idea, it was His…

None of this is new information to God…

Then I ask God to show me if there is something He wants to say to prepare me for what He wants me to communicate to our congregation. I surrender my ideas, my outline and my topic. Then I just stay in that quiet place until God quiets my heart…

Many times I will have a breakthrough thought or idea that brings clarity to my message. . .

Like you, I am simply a mouthpiece. Getting stuck is one way God keeps me ever conscious of that fact.”
― Andy Stanley, Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication

“When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.”
― Jo Ann Fore

“We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment