Tag Archives: Books
Life Lessons // John Wooden
Here is a photo (average printer and then scanned) of when John Wooden came to speak at my Alma Mater, California Baptist University, I believe, in 2001. Growing up in Southern California and loving the game of basketball, I had heard a lot about John Wooden (All-time great head coach at UCLA, 10 NCAA champions [...]
Full StoryDo Hard Things
Do Hard Things, is the first book by Alex and Brett Harris, that I just recently picked up as a gift for two high school graduates in our youth group. I have heard great things about this book and the funny thing is…. I can’t put it down! I am trying to finish the book [...]
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Thumbing through the pages of Slam Magazine (LeBron James April issue), I came across an interesting article on a basketball goal photo book project. Bob Redding has created a photo book called Home Court, which consists of homemade basketball goals that were taken on outdoor courts, ranging from Mississippi to California. Redding is producing a [...]
Full StoryWhat Missionaries Have Known For Centuries
Breaking the missional code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community, is a book that I have just finished reading. What missionaries have known for centuries is that there are cultural barriers, in addition to spiritual ones, that keep people from truly hearing the gospel. The task is to find a balance between [...]
Full StoryBasketball: It’s Origin and Development
I just finished reading a book by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. The book was actually a series of writings and articles from over the years incorporated into this volume. The idea for the book originated when Naismith, already in his mid-seventies, was prompted by his family to put his story on paper. Because [...]
Full StoryMaking Disciples of Oral Learners
This book notes that there are 4 billion oral communicators in the world today that can’t or choose not to take in new information or communicate by literate means. Oral communicators are found in every cultural group in the world and make up approximately two-thirds of the world’s population. And yet an estimated 90% of [...]
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I read Foreign to Familiar for one of my missions classes on cultural anthropology. This book is a helpful resource with for anyone traveling abroad to another culture or for even crossing the street in our diverse country today. The author makes helpful generalizations and divides the world into Hot-and Cold-climate cultures. Cultures around the [...]
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John Garner
John Wooden
Ron Harvey
Stuart Weir
Tony Dungy
