Download or read book The Christian Athlete written by Brian Smith and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Athlete is a gospel-centered guide that assists athletes who identify as Christians and are seeking to understand how to practically apply their faith to their sport. Athletes desire—and deserve—a more substantive expression of the Christian faith in the context of sport, but they don’t know what it looks like or where to turn to learn more. Author Brian Smith shares his story as an athlete and coach, and his experience working with high-level athletes in the last decade to help readers better understand how to integrate faith and sport by: Assisting those who want a wide-angled understanding of how to live the Christian faith in the context of sports Walking through the many questions Christian athletes ask about winning, losing, injuries, practice, and everything in between Moving Christian athletes from simply having clichéd spiritual sayings decorating their bodies or t-shirts to actually living out their faith through all the opportunities their sport offers them The Christian Athlete will show readers how to live out a biblical perspective on athletics and urge them to engage in the gifts they are given to glorify God whether they are the team MVP or riding the bench.

Download or read book Christian Coaching written by Gary R. Collins and published by NavPress Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-known author in the field of counseling takes successful principles of coaching and gives them a God-centered application. Broader in scope than either mentoring or discipline, Christian coaching helps people find God's vision or their lives and learn to live accordingly.

Download or read book Walking with Mary written by Edward Sri and published by Image. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary appears only a few times in the Bible, but those few passages come at crucial moments. Catholics believe that Mary is the ever-virgin Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven and Earth. But she also was a human being--a woman who made a journey of faith through various trials and uncertainties and endured her share of suffering. Even with her unique graces and vocation, Mary remains a woman we can relate to and from whom we have much to learn. In Walking with Mary, Edward Sri looks at the crucial passages in the Bible concerning Mary and offers insight about the Blessed Mother's faith and devotion that we can apply in our daily lives. We follow her step-by-step through the New Testament account of her life, reflecting on what the Scriptures tell us about how she responded to the dramatic events unfolding around her. “This book is the fruit of my personal journey of studying Mary through the Scriptures, from her initial calling in Nazareth to her painful experience at the cross,” writes Edward Sri “It is intended to be a highly readable, accessible work that draws on wisdom from the Catholic tradition, recent popes, and biblical scholars of a variety of perspectives and traditions. With the riches of these insights, we will ponder what her journey of faith may have been like in order to draw out spiritual lessons for our own walk with God.” He add, “It is my hope, therefore, that whether you are of a Catholic, Protestant, or other faith background, this book may help you to know, understand, and love Mary more, and that it may inspire you to walk in her footsteps as a faithful disciple of the Lord in your own pilgrimage of faith.”

Download or read book Gospel Coach written by Scott Thomas and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to help pastors and other Christian leaders to lovingly lead God’s flock to Jesus Christ and into God’s mission, Scott Thomas and Tom Wood clarify a process of coaching and shepherding that is rooted in the patterns of the Good Shepherd himself, a process in which leaders stir up the gifts, passion, and calling upon others’ lives. This book addresses the needs of the leader, his or her sinful tendencies, and church leadership issues. It directs the leader to the person and work of Jesus. It provides a system to intentionally shepherd leaders to glorify God in their personal, spiritual, and missional lives. Many ministry leaders serving in churches find themselves overwhelmed, disillusioned, and depressed by the enormous and challenging task of leading and ministering in a congregation. As a result, the ministry suffers, the leaders suffer, and the result is often an unhealthy church existent with little or no Gospel influence. These leaders need someone to shepherd their soul so that they can lead others to the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ. We suggest that coaching for the church leader looks less like corporate consulting or humanistic psychology and more like biblical-shepherding. We suggest that every church leader needs a Gospel Coach to come alongside with words of truth, wisdom and experience to encourage, admonish, comfort and help—words drawn from Scripture and godly wisdom, grounded in the gracious saving work of Jesus Christ, and presented in the context of a trusting relationship. Gospel Coaching is an intentional relationship to skillfully care for others with four ancient shepherding principles: 1) Know the sheep, 2) Feed the sheep, 3) Lead the sheep, and 4) Protect the sheep. A Gospel Coach both inquires about the personal, spiritual, and missional aspects of a ministry leader’s life in a loving yet focused manner, and also probes the church leader for compulsive unbelief or selfish motivation, or disobedience and sin, and leads the ministry leader back to the Gospel, through belief, repentance and obedience. Churches that desire to be rich in a Gospel application toward their city, their relationships with one another, their communication and worship, as well as their service, will benefit to a greater degree by having their leaders being coached by a Gospel-centered leader.

Download or read book The Coach Model for Christian Leaders written by Keith E. Webb and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to the leadership skills you need to solve problems, reach goals, and develop others into leaders themselves. The COACH Model® is a radically different approach to leading people. Rather than provide answers, leaders ask questions to draw out what God has already put into others. ICF Professional Certified Coach and speaker Keith Webb teaches Christian leaders how to create powerful conversations to assist others to solve their own problems, reach goals, and develop their own leadership skills in the process. Whether leaders are working with employees, teenagers, or a colleague living in another city, they’ll find powerful tools and techniques to increase leadership effectiveness. Based on first-hand experience and taught around the world, The COACH Model for Christian Leaders is packed with stories and illustrations that bring the principles and practice to life and transform leaders’ conversations into powerful results.

Download or read book Leadership Coaching written by Tony Stoltzfus and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Coaching is an essential tool for anyone who wants to learn to coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life. Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, this book goes beyond proof-texting to present an integrated, values-based paradigm for leadership coaching. Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life. Leadership coaching is a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow.

Download or read book Faith Coaching written by Bill Copper and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of fill-in-the-blank faith and one-size-fits-all approaches to discipleship? Faith Coaching equips you to use coaching conversations to help others find and follow their spiritual growth path.

Download or read book Disciple Development Coaching written by Mark Tidsworth and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for a "program in a box/book" to transform your Christian education and discipleship programs at the congregational level, you will need to rethink your presuppositions as you read and work through the ideas in this pivotal work. A twentieth-century mentality will not carry you very far into the movement contemplated by Tidsworth and Harrison. This is an urgent call for the church to realign with the nature of the twenty-first-century world of which we are a part. If for no other reason, this book is a significant read. The authors support their discussion with clear biblical and spiritual insights. The chapters also provide some good contemporary background from others who are writing and thinking about church development. Reading this book will help bring the reader up to date on leadership, church culture, change, and the general state of God's church in the twenty-first century. All around us we hear moaning about how the church has lost its place in the world. Disciple Development Coaching is a highly relational movement that has the potential to empower all Christians to find their places in the world. It also locates the responsibility for the church's mission in the hands, hearts, and minds of all disciples. The chapters are set forth in a highly linear and logical manner as the authors explain thoroughly their proposal. It is a "working read." The reader must place herself in the text and move through exercises in the context of a training manual. Yet, this is not a method or program. The entire foundation is relational, almost natural. One wonders why we didn't figure this out a long time ago. The relationship between the coach and the disciple is a movement through conversation with a major emphasis on listening and empowering the disciple to develop competencies already available in his frame of Christian reference. The coach and the disciple ask, listen, explore, design, commit, and support in a shared experience that has a natural move back and forth. There is no beginning or end; it is a relational process that is part of an intentional long-term way of life.

Download or read book Coaching with Christ written by Wesley Lamar Johnson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaching with Christ is beautiful book of inspiration on how to include God in your life and in your coaching. The reader will be amazed by what God can give one man to give to the world. Coach Johnsons book shows the journey of him designing such a brilliant coaching plan with the help of God. Those who read Coach Johnsons book from every level of the game, in every sport, will notice the book was not just handcrafted by man but by how God had his hands in it as well.

Download or read book Coaching Ministry Teams written by Kenneth O. Gangel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-10-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In competitive sports we prize teamwork. We know that a mature team will usually beat an astounding collection of individual players. The burden of creating such esprit de corps falls to the coach and the team of leaders he has assembled. After all, a team without a coach cannot win. But what happens when the coach himself does not understand the dynamics of teamwork?In a similar manner, every leader of every church is a coach of sorts, with a ministry team responsible for the life of the church. The question put to you as a pastor is this: Are you a team player? Even more to the point: Whose team are you building?Too many church leaders, writes author Kenn Gangel, have fallen into the trap of personal kingdom-building, a focused concern on one's own and present ministry without a wider recognition of kingdom participation.The net effect of this condition has led to narrow vision, stunted church growth, and frustrated relationships within the body of Christ. In contrast, Gangel explores broad and penetrating support throughout the Word of God for team-based, inclusive, cooperative leadership. From Jethro's advice to Moses all the way to Jesus's approach to discipleship, biblical leadership is viewed as a tool to be shared--a model of servanthood, mentoring, and the mutual interdependence of gifts.Along the way Gangel explores the character attributes of successful biblical leadership--common things like humility, patience, and quiet dignity. From there he reveals how these qualities open an authentic leader up to the wide and thrilling possibilities of working hand-in-hand with others in the Lord's work...together.

Download or read book The Freedom Coach Model written by Jill Monaco and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill's story is not unique. Having endured childhood abuse, broken relationships and personal failures, Jill found herself stuck in a cycle of shame, fear and rejection. Her own personal pursuit of freedom led her to study with various inner-healing ministries, and she went on to become an accredited life coach with the International Coach Federation. Jill's love for people and her passion to see God set them free led her to create The Freedom Coach Model. This 12 week program was developed to help people meet with God through Jill's Freedom Coaching practice. Her clients encouraged her to create a guide with the tools they used while meeting with her so they could continue their journeys with God between sessions. The book, Freedom Coach Model, blends ministry activations with coaching questions. With over 20 different topics, the prayers in this book will lead you to have a powerful encounter with a loving God so you can have radical freedom in your life.

Download or read book Jesus Life Coach written by Laurie Beth Jones and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to succeeding by following Jesus' examples.

Download or read book Breaking Free from Body Shame written by Jess Connolly and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You were made for more than a love/hate relationship with your body. It's one thing to know in your head that you were created in the image of God. Yet it's quite another to experience this belief in your body, against the cultural ideals of a woman's worth. And between the two lies a world of frustration, disappointment, and the shame of somehow feeling both too much and never enough in your body. Jess Connolly is a bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and trusted Bible teacher who knows this inner conflict all too well, and this book details her journey--and yours--of setting out to discover how to break free from the broken beliefs we all hold about our bodies that hold us back from our fullest life. The truest thing about you is that you are made and loved by God. And the truest thing about Him is that He cannot make bad things. This book will help you believe it with your whole self, as Jess guides you through an eye-opening, empowering process of: Renaming what the world has labeled as less-than Resting in God's workmanship Experiencing restoration where there has been injury And becoming a change agent in partnering with God to bring revival to a generation of women Far from a superficial issue, self-image is a spiritual issue, because God has named your body good from the beginning. Whether your struggle is with eating and exercise habits, stress or trauma, infertility or injury, this book makes space for you to experience God meeting you in this tender place, and ring His freedom bell over your body in a whole new way.

Download or read book Abounding Faith written by Nancy Gavilanes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're called to walk by faith and not by sight. Many times that's easier said than done. As you read about some of the heroic moments in the lives of these 30 men and women from the Bible, may your faith be stirred to believe God for the impossible! This devotional includes Bible verses, reflection questions, and prayer prompts to encourage you on your faith journey!

Download or read book Fill Your Cup for Christ written by Kramer Soderberg and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that motivates you? What is your goal in this life? How are you coping and making sense of the trials and difficulties that you are facing today or will face in the furture? Are you searching for the truth or hiding from it. Kramer Soderberg - College basketball coach and first time author, allows you the reader to join him on his personal spiritual quest while coaching, motivating, and pushing you to grow in your own relationship with Christ and reap all the wonderful spiritual gifts that God and his Church are offering you. Most of us don't realize we are in the midst of a battle and have no idea what the end goal of this life actually is. Majority of us have been misled by the lies of our culture. And all of us have asked the question, "How am I going to deal with this?" or made the statement, "I'm just not motivated at the moment." As a Church, as Christians, and as followers of Jesus Christ we so often forget, as we all desperately search and scramble for what we want and need in this life, that all those desires we are chasing can be found in the same place and are given by the same person. "Fill Your Cup for Christ" takes you on the spiritual journey of an everyday sleepwalking cradle Catholic who was searching to get more out of his faith life. Kramer Soderberg--through stories, strategies, and some in your face coaching tactics--helps his readers grow in their relationship with Jesus, enhance their understanding of Catholic Church teaching, and ignite the desire to become the saint God is calling all of us all to be. Simple, genuine, and easy to read, "Fill Your Cup for Christ" is a life-changing book for Christians in all stages of life!

Download or read book The Burden of Better written by Heather Creekmore and published by ACU Press/Leafwood Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trinity of Coaching written by DeNeen Attard and published by Attard Coaching and Consulting. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinity of Coaching: God, You, and Your Life Coach is a practical guide for coaches, coaching clients, ministers, and laypeople. Packed with research-supported techniques, practical advice, and life application lessons, this book is an excellent tool to help you integrate your Christian faith and Biblical principles into your coaching sessions and daily activities.