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Learning About Life and Leadership from Christian Coaches
Nov 18th
John Wooden
Wooden, John with Steve Jamison. My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Wooden, John with Steve Jamison. Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1997.
Wooden, John and Steve Jamison. Wooden on Leadership. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Tom Landry
Landry, Tom with Gregg Lewis. Tom Landry: An Autobiography. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990.
Tom Osborne
Tom Osborne and John E. Roberts. More Than Winning: The Story of Tom Osborne. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Osborne, Tom. Faith in the Game: Lessons on Football, Work, and Life. Colorado Springs: WaterBrook Press, 1999.
Osborne, Tom. Beyond the Final Score: There’s More to Life than the Game. Ventura, CA: Regal/Gospel Light, 2009.
Joe Gibbs
Joe Gibbs with Jerry Jenkins. Game Plan for Life: Your Personal Playbook for Success. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2009.
Joe Gibbs with Ken Abraham. Racing to Win: Establish Your Game Plan for Success. Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2002.
Lou Holtz
Holtz, Lou. Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success. New York: HarperBusiness, 1998.
Holtz, Lou. Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography. New York: William Morrow/Harper Collins, 2006.
Tony Dungy
Dungy, Tony with Nathan Whitaker. Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2007.
Dungy, Tony with Nathan Whitaker. Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2009.
Dungy, Tony with Nathan Whitaker. The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams that Win Consistently. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2010.
Bobby Bowden
Bowden, Bobby with Mark Schabach. Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith, and Football. New York: Howard Books, 2010.
Biblical References to Creation
Nov 16th
| Genesis 1:1-31
2:3-7, 18-23 Exodus 20:11 1 Samuel 2:8 2 Kings 19:15 Nehemiah 9:6 Job 9:5-9 12:7-9, 13 26:7 28:24-27 37:16, 18 38:4-11 Psalm 8:3 19:1-2 33.6-9 65:6 74:16-17 78:69 89:11-12 90:2 95:4-5 102:25 103:22 104:1-6, 24-28 115:15 119:90 121:2 124: |
Psalm 134:3
136:5-9 146:5-6 148:5 Proverbs 3:19 8:24-29 30:4 Ecclesiastes 3:11 11:5 Isaiah 40:12, 26, 28 42:5 45:7-12, 18 48:13 51:13 66:2 Jeremiah 5:22 10:12 27:5 31:35 32:17 33:2 51:15-16 Amos 4:13 5:8 9:6 Jonah 1:9 Zechariah 12:1 Malachi 2:10 |
Matthew 19:4 Mark 10:6 13:19 John 1:1-3, 10 Acts 14:15-17 17:22-27 Romans 1:18-23, 25 4:17 11:36 1 Corinthians 8:6 11:9 2 Corinthians 4:6 Ephesians 3:9 Colossians 1:16 3:10 1 Timothy 6:13 Hebrews 1:2, 10 2:10 3:4 11:3 Revelation 3:14 4:11 10:6-7 14:7 |
Commending and Defending Christian Faith Now Available
Sep 18th
Commending and Defending Christian Faith:
An Introduction to Christian Apologetics
H. Lynn Gardner
Foreword by Gary R. Habermas
(Joplin, MO: College Press, 2010)
Endorsements:
“. . . an excellent introduction to apologetics.”
Norman L. Geisler, Distinguished Professor of Apologetics, Veritas Evangelical Seminary (www.VeritasSeminary.com)
“. . . specifically crafted for convenient use as a college textbook. . . . can be required along with a second text of Christian evidences to create a well-rounded approach to this subject.”
Gary R. Habermas, Distinguished Research Professor, and Chair Department of Philosophy and Theology, Liberty University
“His handling of the introductory and background issues . . . is thorough, sound, and much needed.”
Jack Cottrell, Professor of Theology, Cincinnati Christian University
“. . . contemporary and timeless introduction to the field that is both scholarly and devotional.”
David Peters, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Apologetics, Florida Christian College
“. . . strong defense of the concept of objective truth from God.”
Johnny Pressley, Dean of the Graduate Seminary, Cincinnati Christian University
“. . . mandatory reading for preachers, youth ministers, campus ministers, youth workers of all sorts, and anyone else who seeks to direct others’ spiritual journeys.”
David Embree, Director, Christian Campus House, Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, Missouri State University
A “how-to-think-about-apologetics” book.
Introduces the basic terms and concepts, key thinkers, and fundamental apologetic issues and questions. States the what, why, and how of apologetics preparing persons for further study of reasons for faith and answers to objections. It does not present the case for Christianity or answer attacks but rather introduces one to the study of Christian apologetics.
Contents:
Part One, Challenges to Christian Faith, helps the reader understand doubt and unbelief which make apologetics necessary.
Part Two, Foundations for Apologetics, discusses concepts essential to the defense of the truth of the Christian faith, including reason, knowledge, truth, and faith.
Part Three, The Practice of Apologetics, discusses reasons for apologetics, defense of the faith in the New Testament and in church history, methods of defense, practical uses of apologetics and guidelines for apologetics.
Audience:
The audience would be Bible college, seminary, and university students as well as leaders and thinkers seeking to defend the faith. It seeks to instruct and motivate Christians to be prepared to present an intelligent and effective case for Christianity.
The book challenges Christians to be good thinkers in how they go about defending and commending Christian faith. It could serve as a first book for beginning a serious study of apologetics.
Objectives:
- Be prepared to deal with doubt and unbelief.
- Be acquainted with the role of thinking, knowing, truth, and faith in apologetics.
- Know why we should defend the faith and how the faith can be defended.
- Learn from defenders of the faith in the New Testament and in church history.
- Gain practical suggestions and guidelines for giving a defense of your faith.
H. Lynn Gardner taught apologetics for forty years in Bible colleges, serving eighteen years as academic dean. A graduate of Ozark Christian College, California State University, Wheaton College, with a doctorate from the University of Arkansas. Included in his seven books are Where Is God When We Suffer? What the Bible Says about Suffering and Christianity Stands True: A Commonsense Look at the Evidence. www.lynngardner.info.
ISBN 978-0-89900-947-6: hardback, 501 pages. Apologetics/Theology/General Bible
List price: $32.99. College Press—1-800-289-3300; email—books@collegepress.com
Internet price: $28.00, www.collegepress.com
The Value of Regular Exercise
Jul 27th
I do not write to lay a guilt trip on anyone, but I warn you this is a commercial. I speak not as a paid salesman but as a satisfied customer. My testimony is that regular exercise has paid significant benefits in my life.
This August 12, 2010, marks ten years of exercising three times a week at Pulmonary Rehabilitation at St. John’s Regional Medical Center. Because it is a priority to me I seldom miss. This exercise program has made a vital contribution in extending and enriching my life.
In 2000 doctors diagnosed me with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a terminal lung disease. Regular exercise contributed to my being able to live long enough to receive a double lung transplant in 2004. My doctors told me that good muscle tone in my body would make the transplant more successful and enable my body to more efficiently utilize the oxygen it receives. Not only did exercise help me live long enough to receive new lungs, it has contributed to my generally strong health these past six years.
Medicine can only do so much. Exercise is something we can do for ourselves. Barbara, my wife, had breast cancer five years ago. She underwent surgery and chemo therapy. She has chosen to work on eating healthy and walking regularly as her approach to try to prevent reoccurrence. She walks two miles four or five times a week. I did not walk as a part of my regular exercise routine taking about an hour. But Barbara convinced me to add thirty minutes of walking and do it on the days I didn’t go to rehab.
The benefits of exercise to physical health does not tell the whole story. Barbara and I thank God that we have been able to continue to have a part in our children and grandchildren’s lives. Though retired we are happy to be serving God and others.
Where Does God Dwell?
Jul 19th
Because the church is the people I have generally referred to the building where the Lord’s people meet as the church house. Though we do not read of church buildings in the New Testament, they provide a place for church meetings and activities. But God does not dwell in church buildings.
Then where does God dwell? Paul said, “The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man” (Acts 17:24). Jesus explained, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him” (John 14:23). Paul prays that you may be “strengthened with power though his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith . . . that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:16-17, 19). “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). As incredible as it may seem, God makes his home in individual believers.
Not only does God make his home in individual believers, the community of believers provides a residence for God as well. “We are the temple of the living God; as God said, ‘I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people” (2 Corinthians 6:16). “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple” (1 Corinthians 3:16-17). We are “members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit” (Eph 2:19-22).
Instead of shrines, statues or temples, God dwells in five foot six inch women and six foot tall men and in fourteen-year-old young people. He dwells individually in those of us who are believers and Christ-followers. He also dwells in the midst of twenty believers meeting in a small congregation as well as among a thousand believers lifting their hearts in worship. The pantheist and New Agers worship the god within claiming to be god. The Christian worships the eternal living God who chooses to live within believers.
What a privilege to be the home for God—for God to dwell within us! What an incentive to glorify God with our lives and in our church fellowships!
(Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version, I have added the italics.)
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