Speaking Information

Are you looking for a guest speaker for your church, conference, or retreat?

I am a relationship coach, a pastor, a conference/seminar speaker, and the author of two books – Tools for a Great Marriage and Tools for a Great Marriage Devotional. I have taught for more than 45 years on marriage, parenting, and personal growth topics. My wife, Debbie, and I were married in 2022 following the deaths of their spouses. While newlyweds, we have a wealth of real-world marital experience – I was married to Cindy for 45 years and Debbie to Rick for 34 years. In addition to speaking together, we coach married couples and couples preparing for marriage.

We aim to inspire our audiences with practical information that challenges individuals and couples to work through relational issues with Christ-centered approaches.

I also have been in pastoral ministry since graduating from Bible college in 1973. Wow! That seems like a long time ago. That means I have much experience preaching in church and conference settings. Although officially retired from full-time pastoral ministry, I still actively preach and teach in local church settings.

If you want to know more about me, visit my website’s “About” page.

Below are some of the topics that I have available for your event. I can also custom-tailor a presentation for your event. Feel free to reach out to me through the contact form below. Let’s discuss how I can help you build great relationships in your church and community.

Speaking Topics

Make Your Marriage a Fortress (Weekend Seminar/Retreat)

Keeping your marriage strong when the world, the circumstances of your life, and Satan are determined to rip you apart can be overwhelming. Every married couple must continue fortifying their relationship against the forces that can weaken and even destroy it. Session topics include:

• Drifting Apart – Confronting Relational Disconnection
• Radical Confession and Forgiveness
• Not All Conflict is Bad
• Intimacy – The Way We Love
• Fortify Your Spiritual Intimacy
  

The Building Great Relationships Conference

Community. Friendships. Family. It’s all about connections with other people. Sometimes those connections are challenging, to say the least. In the Building Great Relationships Conference, we explore practical tools that will help build strong and meaningful relationships with our friends and families. This conference can be presented in a number of formats, including a weekend retreat, a one-day conference, and a Sunday morning through Wednesday night special services series. The conference contains five sessions but can be customized for the host group. Session topics include:

• Essential Tools for Great Relationships
• Why Do I Do What I Do?
• When We Open Our Mouths
• One Way to Ruin Every Relationship
• Finish Strong in Your Marriage

Seminars and Date Night Events:

• Tools for a Great Marriage (Seminar)
  Few people have great marriages, in large part because it is so easy to settle for the mundane in marriage. See how several indispensable marital tools can help any couple build a satisfying, fun, loving, and lasting marriage.
• Give Your Marriage a Fresh Start (Seminar)
  Every marriage relationship can use a fresh start – a process of improving, repairing, or making it more successful. It’s a freshening up your relationship.
• Friends and Lovers (Seminar)
  Using the love story found in the Old Testament book of Song of Solomon, couples can discover how a deep friendship is clearly at the foundation of their marital relationship and the driving force behind their romance.
• Stronger Together – Loving Your Spouse Through a Chronic Illness (Seminar)
  Couples learn how to can handle the grief, anger, and guilt that can invade their marriage, work together as a team in living out their marriage vows in sickness and in health, and focus on what really matters in their marriage.
• Tools for a Great Marriage Date Night
  An informal night out for couples with dessert (or dinner & dessert), plenty of laughs, casual conversations, and teaching on how to have a great marriage. It’s a great way for couples to connect with their spouse and other couples.
• Grandparenting: Leaving a Grand Legacy (Seminar)
  Some people love being a grandparent. Others may think, “I’ve raised my kids; they can raise theirs.” God has a grand view of grandparenting…“Grandchildren are the crowning glory of the aged”(Proverbs 17:6). Grandparents have a “grand” calling!
• Tools for the Empty-Nest Marriage (Seminar)
  The children are gone or soon will be. Now is the time to revitalize and refresh your relationship for the second half of marriage. Understanding how the empty-nest syndrome can affect your marriage is critically important to avoiding gray divorce and rekindling your marriage as empty-nesters.

Men’s Meetings/Conferences:

• Tools for a Great Marriage
• Cherish Your Wife…Without Spending a Fortune
• Communication Still Works
• Loving Your Wife as Your Best Friend
• Loving Your Wife Through Chronic Illness
• How Do I Look? And Other Loaded Questions in Marriage
• Dad Talk: Tools for Raising Great Adults
• Grandfathering: Building a Godly Legacy
• How Do You Spell Intimacy?

Sermons:

• Finish Strong in Your Marriage
• So What’s On Your Mind? (Colossians 3:1-4)
• Opening Your Mouth – The Power of the Tongue
• Life is Not Fair, But…
• Tools for Building Great Relationships
• Riding Out the Storms of Life
• A Refresher of Hearts (Philemon)
• Press On
• No Fear in Love
• Coping with Worry and Anxiety
• Parent Talk: Tools for Raising Great Adults
• Fight for Your Family
• The Way Marriage Was Meant to Be
• Secrets – Getting Rid of Guilt and Shame
• And more…!