Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Three cheers for the weekend.

Anybody got big plans?

I'm starting to get spring fever, and then then very shortly thereafter we're heading into the summer. I hope all is well with you where you are listening from. So hey, today I want to do a Friday five I like to do every now and then. It's five books on my stack right now that I'm either drawing from in my teaching or currently reading and just recommend. I get a ton of books for interviews on my

podcast. It's such a crazy job perk and an honor. I can't read them all and I'll be honest,

I don't like them all. But here are some that I do like and I want to tell you about them and why.

So here we go. So remember, these are books on my stack right now that I'm either teaching things out of or reading or have read recently and want to share with you.

Number one, the seven principles of public speaking by Richard Zioly.

Now, a couple of things.

I started reading this book because it's the class book for the students

I'm teaching from for the Refuge Discipleship School this semester in my speaking 101 class.

I'm having such a blast doing that, by the way, and I actually went in thinking I might change

this book to another one that I like, but I wound up really liking what I read in here,

so I kept it. Before you dismiss me,

if you aren't a speaker, please hear me out. All of us need to learn to communicate better.

I really believe that. I'm a big believer in really honing in on communicating better to people.

And this book gives great insight into how to best communicate.

Certainly, if you are a speaker and you do speak from a stage, I would recommend getting this book.

Number two, Miss Fit Table by Tiffany Kilgore.

This is a current book, and I endorsed it.

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