Download or read book Par for the Course Faith and Fairways written by Joshua Rhoades and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Par for the Course: Faith and Fairways" is an invitation to embark on a journey where the serenity of the golf course meets the depth of spiritual reflection. Golf, with its expansive greens, challenging fairways, and quiet moments of introspection, offers more than just a game-it offers a metaphor for life's spiritual journey. Each swing, each hole, and each round mirrors the challenges, triumphs, and lessons we encounter in our walk with God. This book is a bridge between the sport of golf and the spiritual life, drawing out powerful parallels that speak to the heart of our faith. Imagine the calm before the first swing, the anticipation and focus required to send the ball soaring toward the distant flag. In that moment, we find a reflection of our need for focus and intention in our spiritual lives. Golf teaches us about patience, resilience, and humility-qualities that are essential in our relationship with God. Just as a golfer must learn to navigate the sand traps and water hazards on the course, we too must learn to navigate the obstacles that life throws our way, trusting in God's guidance and wisdom to help us find our way to the green. "Par for the Course" explores the spiritual lessons embedded in the game of golf, revealing how each aspect of the game can deepen our faith. The discipline required to perfect a swing, the perseverance needed to improve after a missed shot, and the humility it takes to accept defeat with grace-all these elements mirror the virtues we are called to cultivate as followers of Christ. This book invites you to see the golf course as a place of spiritual growth, where every round played is an opportunity to draw closer to God. As you walk the fairways, with the sun on your back and the wind in your face, you'll find moments of solitude that allow for reflection and prayer. The quietness of the course provides a backdrop for connecting with God, for hearing His voice in the stillness, and for contemplating the path He has set before you. Whether you're teeing off at the first hole or lining up a putt on the eighteenth, the parallels between golf and the spiritual life are clear: both require focus, persistence, and an unwavering faith in the process. "Par for the Course" is not just a book for golf enthusiasts; it's for anyone seeking to deepen their faith through the lessons learned on the course. It's about finding God in the game, seeing His hand in every shot, and allowing the game of golf to become a reflection of your journey with Him. Whether you're a seasoned golfer or someone who has never picked up a club, the insights shared in these pages will resonate with you, offering wisdom, encouragement, and a fresh perspective on your walk with God. In "Par for the Course," you'll discover that every round of golf is more than just a game-it's a spiritual journey, a walk with God across the fairways of life. So grab your clubs, step onto the course, and let the game begin. Your faith journey is waiting to unfold, one swing at a time.
Download or read book Under Par written by Phil Callaway and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart and Humor That Are far Above Par Hit the links with popular humorist and golf enthusiast Phil Callaway as he shares stories of friendship, faith, and failure he found while on the fairway. From tee to green and all points in between, join Phil in a celebration of one of the world’s most exhilarating and exasperating pastimes. Aim for the flag as you enjoy anecdotes such as… The Itch—A long Canadian winter does nothing to stop some dedicated and determined early risers. The Backyard Classic—Scarcity and ingenuity give birth to the Airport Golf and Country Club, a unique course with 18 fairways and only one green. Escape from the Hanoi Hilton—A prisoner of war passes time and wins the battle for his mind. Prayer on a Golf Course—Will one man’s wish for an elusive hole-in-one be granted by God? Fore Is Short for Forgiveness—A dangerously errant drive leads to a lesson in mercy. Packed with unforgettable quotes, helpful tips, and amusing asides, Under Par will inspire you to never give up on the game you love…even when it doesn’t love you back.
Download or read book From Tee to Green written by Marvin R. Wamble and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avid golfer Marvin R. Wamble has played on courses all around the world, and he understands the precarious nature of the game. It has its ups and downs, and no golfers, no matter how good they are, can always be guaranteed a great round. By the same token, Wamble the minister realizes that the game of life is impossible to master without the Lord. From Tee to Green, a devotional written for golfers searching for a way to improve their lives, shares Wamble's witty and insightful reflections on life and golf. With personal anecdotes, spiritual lessons, and prayers, he dares to ask tough questions designed to spur readers to the next level of their game-whether it's in the middle of a golf course or at one of life's emotional and spiritual crossroads. Wamble shows us how to make God a part of our daily lives so that we may walk with spiritual confidence and courage. Not wanting us to settle for par or bogey, the Lord lovingly infuses us with the power and authority to allow a more abundant existence, allowing us to not only fly like eagles, but to capture a few on the links as well.
Download or read book Lessons from the Fairway written by R. McKenzie Fisher and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of inspirational stories from different sports. You can re-live memorable moments in sports while receiving spiritual instruction.
Download or read book Beyond the Fairway written by Jeff Wallach and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond The Fairway is a guide for getting to the heart of golf and self by measuring a not by the score, but by the overall experience. Going against conventional approaches to golf, disproving that a straight fairway drive is golf's ultimate thrill, golfer and author Jeff Wallach steers his cart into the rough and even dangerous terrain where golf becomes an adventure into the unknown, into the greater mysteries of life, love, friendship, endurance, being a son, and being a man. Each chapter presents the unique physical and spiritual challenges of exotic and exclusive courses around the world from Scotland, Africa, and Thailand to Oregon, Alaska, and Nepal. The book gives an insider's often humorous, sometimes irreverent perspective on the sacred sites and rites of golf, and pros from around the world provide practical tips and insights into the game.
Download or read book Faith in the Fairway written by Ben Crane and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the finest players of the PGA share a year's worth of brief and personal daily reflections on keeping the faith—both in the high-stakes world of professional sports and in life beyond the greens. Find out how Ben Crane, Lee Janzen, Davis Love III, Stewart Cink, Zach Johnson, Bubba Watson, Webb Simpson, and many more remain spiritually grounded as they prepare for PGA events. Their penetrating insights and practical examples will encourage and inspire you to apply God's Word to your own life on and off the course. You'll also hear from some PGA wives as they endeavor to maintain peace and contentment at home while navigating the ups and downs of family life with a top-level competitor. You'll discover how you too can bring your "A game" to your home, work, and leisure activities—by wrapping them all in your relationship with God.
Download or read book A Place for Faith written by Gary Clifford Gibson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Place for Faith' is a collection of Christian and philosophical poetry of Garrison Clifford Gibson written between 1977 and 2004.
Download or read book Church on the Golf Course written by Tennison Hubbard and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever wish you could strengthen your faith and biblical understanding while playing the great sport of golf? Church on the Golf Course masterfully accomplishes just that. In a simple yet profound way, Tennison Hubbard produces this short book to help you to: aEURC/ Identify the Seven Christian Virtues in the Bible and on the golf course aEURC/ Pinpoint these virtues in yourself and improve on them aEURC/ Walk the righteous path while playing the game you love Once youaEUR(tm)ve finished Church on the Golf Course, youaEUR(tm)ll understand who you are and why you are the way you are a little better. By the end, youaEUR(tm)ll gain some humility, be excited to make a few changes in your golf game and in your life, and recapture the nostalgia you had for golf when you first started playing the game. These eleven condensed chapters are guaranteed to help you play golf and live your life as an ambassador for Christ.
Download or read book Blue Fairways written by Charles Slack and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A duffer's odyssey on the public links from Maine to Key West. A golfing everyman takes us on a pilgrimage, playing public golf courses along Route 1 down the east coast of the United States. From his first round with French-Canadian partners amidst the potato fields of northern Maine to his final round against a setting tropical sun in Key West, Charlie Slack chronicles the best and worst of the public-golf experience. Each round introduces a new set of partners and opens a window onto a new locale, whether it's the manicured suburbs of Connecticut, the worn-down urban centers of the Northeast Corridor, or the sun-drenched golfing havens of the South. Here in the land of new beginnings, Charlie Slack lives out every golfer's fantasy, a fresh start and a pristine fairway each and every morning. An utterly charming tale of a quintessentially American journey of discovery.
Download or read book True Links written by George Peper and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most challenging, most invigorating holes a golfer can tackle. In this beautiful book, Peper and Campbell, two writers who know golf inside and out, provide a concise and entertaining tour of the world's best links courses. Full color.
Download or read book Wide Open Fairways written by Bradley S. Klein and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In golf the playing field is also landscape, where nature and the shaping of it conspire to test athletic prowess. As golf courses move away from the "big business, pristine lawn" approach of recent times, Bradley S. Klein, a leading expert on golf course design and economics, finds much to contemplate, and much to report, in the way these wide-open spaces function as landscapes that inspire us, stimulate our senses, and reveal the special nature of particular places. A meditation on what makes golf courses compelling landscapes, this is also a personal memoir that follows Klein's own unique journey across the golfing terrain, from the Bronx and Long Island suburbia to the American prairie and the Pacific Northwest. Whether discussing Robert Moses and Donald Trump and the making of New York City, or the role of golf in the development of the atomic bomb, or the relevance of Willa Cather to how the game has taken hold in the Nebraska Sandhills, Klein is always looking for the freedom and the meaning of golf's wide-open spaces. And as he searches, he offers a deeply informed and absorbing view of golf courses as cultural markers, linking the game to larger issues of land use, ecology, design, and imagination. Purchase the audio edition.
Download or read book Jeeves and the Leap of Faith written by Ben Schott and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeeves and Wooster return in a new espionage caper full of japes, high jinks, and jiggery-pokery in a series that is “impossible to read without grinning idiotically” (Evening Standard). The Drones club’s in peril. Gussie’s in love. Spode’s on the war path. Oh, and His Majesty’s Government needs a favor . . . I say! It’s a good thing Bertie’s back, what? In his eagerly anticipated sequel to Jeeves and the King of Clubs, Ben Schott leads Jeeves and Wooster on another elegantly uproarious escapade. From the mean streets of Mayfair to the scheming spires of Cambridge, we encounter a joyous cast of characters: chiseling painters and criminal bookies, eccentric philosophers and dodgy clairvoyants, appalling poets and pocket dictators, vexatious aunts and their vicious hounds. But that’s not all: Who is ICEBERG, and why is he covered in chalk? Why is Jeeves reading Winnie-the-Pooh? What is seven across and eighty-five down? How do you play Russian Roulette at The Savoy? These questions, and more, are answered in Jeeves and the Leap of Faith — an homage to P.G. Wodehouse, authorized by his estate, and essential reading for fans of The Master. Tinkety-tonk!
Download or read book A Look at Life from the Fairway written by Steve Chapman and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Golfer’s Guide to Seeking God on the Green The Lord uses each of our unique interests to speak to us—including the great game of golf! From your time on the fairway to your time in the rough, God can repurpose the insights you’ve gained from golfing to help you better understand truths of His Word. In A Look at Life from the Fairway, bestselling author and outdoor enthusiast Steve Chapman is here to help golfers everywhere notice the parallels between golfing and walking with Christ. Through these engaging and encouraging devotions, you’ll learn how to apply your best golfing skills and tactics to your faith, bringing into your relationship with God the same focus and intentionality you bring to your tee times. Coached by Steve’s friendly voice and uplifting words of wisdom, A Look at Life from the Fairway will inspire the heart of every Christian golfer.
Download or read book ASHINEoVSUN written by John Barlow and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Open written by John Feinstein and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiger Woods has called the U.S. Open "the most difficult national championship." With Open, John Feinstein goes behind the scenes to tell for the first time the full story of how the 2002 U.S. Open Championship came into being-how a public course was transformed into one of the most difficult and surprising in the tournament's history, and how the greatest golfers in the world rose to its almost insurmountable challenges. The Black course at the public golf club in Bethpage, New York, has long had a mythic status among golfers. Designed by legendary course architect A. W. Tillinghast in 1936, it is known as a work of genius-with long fairways, gorgeous vistas, and roughs and bunkers that stymie all but the very best golfers. It is a course where any player can compete, but its cult reputation means that golfers often have to camp overnight in the parking lot to get a tee time the next day. The 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black was the first time in history that golf's greatest championship had been held at a true public course. Open is the full drama of that championship, from the moment that officials first considered holding it there until the last putt rolled in at dusk on Sunday. Along the way, John Feinstein reveals the full glory of golf as it's never been explored before. He digs deep to find out what it really takes to make golf's most famous event worthy of the champions who compete in it. He tells the remarkable story of the artisans who transformed the Black from a downtrodden and rough-around-the-edges public course to one that top pros hailed as "unbelievable" and "the toughest par-70 I've ever played in my life." He also tracks the drama of the masters who battled for supremacy at the Black-Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, Nick Faldo, Phil Mickelson, Jeff Maggert-to show how true champions respond to the toughest conditions. Open is the story of people who devote their entire lives to golf, both behind the scenes and inside the ropes. Their struggles and exhilarations as they master the monster known as Bethpage Black make for a story every golf lover will want to read again and again.
Download or read book Roadside Religion written by Timothy Beal and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty-nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World's Largest Ten Commandments and Precious Moments Chapel. Roadside Religion tells of his attempts to understand the meaning of these places as expressions of religious imagination and experience, and to encounter faith in all its awesome absurdity.
Download or read book Emerald Fairways and Foam Flecked Seas written by James W. Finegan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate advocate and a charming storyteller, Finegan combines a writer's eye, a historian's knowledge, and a golfer's sense of wonder to provide an impossibly ambitious grand tour of this beautiful land.
