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Home Run: Learn God's Game Plan for Life and Leadership
You are invited to live life to the fullest.
For five hard years Christian leader Kevin Myers struggled personally and professionally. But it was during that time that God pointed out where he was going wrong and showed him the biblical pattern for living. It proceeded to transform his life, leadership, ministry, and relationships. During that time John Maxwell also became his mentor.
Together, using a baseball diamond as an analogy for following God's plan for life, Myers and Maxwell provide a clear path forward while helping you keep your priorities in order and your eyes on the prize. What is that pattern?
Connection with God: Winning Dependence
Character: Winning Within
Community: Winning with Others
Competence: Winning Results
Challenging, heart-felt, and insightful, Myers' story will connect with anyone who feels their life is falling short of God's promises. The hard-won lessons Myers learned, along with insightful comments and on-point application from Maxwell, will make it possible for you to win in this performance-based culture without losing your soul.
There are no shortcuts or steals in the spiritual journey of life. HOME RUN is a guidebook for living life and learning how to succeed God's way.
For five hard years Christian leader Kevin Myers struggled personally and professionally. But it was during that time that God pointed out where he was going wrong and showed him the biblical pattern for living. It proceeded to transform his life, leadership, ministry, and relationships. During that time John Maxwell also became his mentor.
Together, using a baseball diamond as an analogy for following God's plan for life, Myers and Maxwell provide a clear path forward while helping you keep your priorities in order and your eyes on the prize. What is that pattern?
Connection with God: Winning Dependence
Character: Winning Within
Community: Winning with Others
Competence: Winning Results
Challenging, heart-felt, and insightful, Myers' story will connect with anyone who feels their life is falling short of God's promises. The hard-won lessons Myers learned, along with insightful comments and on-point application from Maxwell, will make it possible for you to win in this performance-based culture without losing your soul.
There are no shortcuts or steals in the spiritual journey of life. HOME RUN is a guidebook for living life and learning how to succeed God's way.
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January 2, 2021
This is a leadership book from one of the person whom got mentoring from john maxwell. The content of the book was partly autobiography of the author on become a leader.
March 26, 2014
Some very good insights on Christian living.
June 8, 2014
Home Run: Learn God's Game Plan for Life and Leadership
By Kevin Myers, and John Maxwell
Reviewed by Heath Henwood
Many people are missing out on the fullness of life. Not living to the potential that awaits them. Home Run relays some of the struggles that Kevin Myers had personally and professionally.
The book outlines how to restore broken dreams, having faith when sitting at the bottom of the barrel. Using the testimony of Kevin Myers, it provides practical steps and questions to explore when facing the wall.
Utilising the baseball diamond as an analogy for following God's plan for life, Myers and Maxwell provide a clear path forward while helping you keep your priorities in order and your eyes on the prize. What is that pattern? The four bases represent four elements of life to get right.
Connection with God, Character, Community, and Competence.
There are no shortcuts or steals in the spiritual journey of life. HOME RUN is a guidebook for living life and learning how to succeed God's way.
By Kevin Myers, and John Maxwell
Reviewed by Heath Henwood
Many people are missing out on the fullness of life. Not living to the potential that awaits them. Home Run relays some of the struggles that Kevin Myers had personally and professionally.
The book outlines how to restore broken dreams, having faith when sitting at the bottom of the barrel. Using the testimony of Kevin Myers, it provides practical steps and questions to explore when facing the wall.
Utilising the baseball diamond as an analogy for following God's plan for life, Myers and Maxwell provide a clear path forward while helping you keep your priorities in order and your eyes on the prize. What is that pattern? The four bases represent four elements of life to get right.
Connection with God, Character, Community, and Competence.
There are no shortcuts or steals in the spiritual journey of life. HOME RUN is a guidebook for living life and learning how to succeed God's way.
September 1, 2016
I first heard this message nearly 15 years ago and have been patiently waiting for the book! The concepts here have been woven into my personal and work life (yep - we adopted this model at work!). So much so that friends and family can just say, "Sounds like a first base issue" and well all know what that means. I see so many people trying to run the bases the wrong way and now I can help them by figuring out how to get a copy of this book into their hands. No doubt one of my top-ten books.
April 6, 2015
This was an extremely helpful and encouraging book at my current place in my life. The author uses baseball to explain and teach life success to his children and church. Each base represents life's relationships. In order to make a home run, one must cover and touch all bases in order.
May 13, 2014
Great Illustration on God's Game Plan for Life & Leadership by using a baseball diamond. Enjoyed it very much
February 24, 2022
This is an amazing resource for discipleship. It in simple terms lays out the plan and purposes for our lives. A must read for anyone helping others along the journey.
February 15, 2015
EXCELLENT! lots of good stuff in this book. recommended highly!
February 5, 2018
The first idea that was helpful to me was “Some people run to third then back home.” On page 66, Myers discusses how we are consumed with the pattern of this world and that’s how we often cheat our relationship with God. Many times my approach to life consists of trying to prove myself, this sense of affirmation through accomplishment, thinking my character and connection with God will be a by-product of my hard work. While having goals and working hard are good things, Home Run tells me the results need to be a by-product of my dependency on the Father and my winning within. He further talks about how this is exhibited in strong business leadership on page 68.
The chapter on 1st base was probably my favorite. The idea of the “three-second window” really stuck with me. I am very aware of the character battles that we face on a daily basis, especially with our thought process. I’m reading another book that dives into training our mind based on Philippians 4:8. I like the quote on page 122, “If you know that this onslaught of seemingly unendurable temptation is coming and you train yourself to wait it out, though, you can overcome it.”
“Kevin, sometimes God will put a less gifted leader over a more gifted leader to test the humility of the rising leader. You have to decide if it’s time to leave or time to humble yourself.” - Maxwell, Page 12
I love this quote because it’s a great reminder that God’s will is always playing itself out, and giftedness is not a direct indication of leadership position. God puts the right people in the right places at the right times to do what He wants to do. It seems very easy to compare yourself to someone else when you witness a weakness in action. I perceive this quote to mean that to humble myself isn’t necessarily to think of someone else greater than me, but to know that God’s plans are greater than mine and to obey is to get behind those plans.
“We ask God to bless what we’re doing instead of trying to do what God’s blessing.” – Page 79
I want to seek the eyes to see what God’s trying to do. Understanding the priorities that He wants to do work in me first is a good perspective to have. Myers goes on to say that “God was more interested in who I became than in what I did” (79). I will seek to allow my winning with God and winning within to direct my energy towards what He’s doing, in me and through me.
I loved how the analogy of baseball laid out a blueprint of how to succeed at living the life God would have us live. I plan to put what I have learned Home Run into practice in a few ways. One is to have the perspective in a way that my connection with God, character, my community, and my competence will come in that order. I think for me the character and competence can take a front seat when it comes to my personal growth energy and the connection with God and community take a back seat. This is mostly because home plate and 2nd base have felt like they come naturally, and a lot of the insecurity comes from the 1st and 3rd bases. Putting the bases in order and in priority will help my thought process in the future.
This baseball analogy is so simple that I am excited to take it to others, especially my kids in the future. Analogies were very effective in my learning when I was a child. This book will definitely be one I’ll hang onto for reference down the road.
The chapter on 1st base was probably my favorite. The idea of the “three-second window” really stuck with me. I am very aware of the character battles that we face on a daily basis, especially with our thought process. I’m reading another book that dives into training our mind based on Philippians 4:8. I like the quote on page 122, “If you know that this onslaught of seemingly unendurable temptation is coming and you train yourself to wait it out, though, you can overcome it.”
“Kevin, sometimes God will put a less gifted leader over a more gifted leader to test the humility of the rising leader. You have to decide if it’s time to leave or time to humble yourself.” - Maxwell, Page 12
I love this quote because it’s a great reminder that God’s will is always playing itself out, and giftedness is not a direct indication of leadership position. God puts the right people in the right places at the right times to do what He wants to do. It seems very easy to compare yourself to someone else when you witness a weakness in action. I perceive this quote to mean that to humble myself isn’t necessarily to think of someone else greater than me, but to know that God’s plans are greater than mine and to obey is to get behind those plans.
“We ask God to bless what we’re doing instead of trying to do what God’s blessing.” – Page 79
I want to seek the eyes to see what God’s trying to do. Understanding the priorities that He wants to do work in me first is a good perspective to have. Myers goes on to say that “God was more interested in who I became than in what I did” (79). I will seek to allow my winning with God and winning within to direct my energy towards what He’s doing, in me and through me.
I loved how the analogy of baseball laid out a blueprint of how to succeed at living the life God would have us live. I plan to put what I have learned Home Run into practice in a few ways. One is to have the perspective in a way that my connection with God, character, my community, and my competence will come in that order. I think for me the character and competence can take a front seat when it comes to my personal growth energy and the connection with God and community take a back seat. This is mostly because home plate and 2nd base have felt like they come naturally, and a lot of the insecurity comes from the 1st and 3rd bases. Putting the bases in order and in priority will help my thought process in the future.
This baseball analogy is so simple that I am excited to take it to others, especially my kids in the future. Analogies were very effective in my learning when I was a child. This book will definitely be one I’ll hang onto for reference down the road.
July 7, 2022
This book was absolutely outstanding and I have been dying to read it again. I think this should be a book that I reread whenever I need to hear the truths of the Lord in a modern way. It is so hard for me to interpret the Bible and to understand what the message is on my own most of the time. This book simplified a lot of messages in the Bible without making it feel like a lesson plan either. The ideal life that is talked about this book, was hard to seem attainable before I read it. I forget a lot of the lessons that I was paying attention to when I read this, but my life is better since I read it. I definitely would recommend it to anybody who is looking to understand a TRUE Christian way of life. I watched
May 3, 2020
“I realized that maybe- just maybe- God is more interested in how deep we grow our roots than how big we grow our branches. After all, the quality of a tree’s fruit is more dependent on the health of its roots than the height of its limbs. God was building me into a person He could use.”
This book has blessed me beyond measure. Thank you Pastors Kevin and John for sharing how we should live our lives the way God wants it to be. A life that truly counts is a life that is lived according to His will and for His glory.
This book has blessed me beyond measure. Thank you Pastors Kevin and John for sharing how we should live our lives the way God wants it to be. A life that truly counts is a life that is lived according to His will and for His glory.
January 10, 2020
This is an engaging book and I've taken away many excellent life hacks. Unfortunately, in reality, it's tough to run the bases in order - everyone has to be on all of the bases all of the time. The last chapter is the best, so if you've started reading keep on till the end.
June 21, 2022
The main points of the novel could have fit into an email.
July 12, 2022
Great help to learn more God's game plan to win a holistic life and spiritual leadership.
June 27, 2016
Kevin Myers, pastor of 12Stone Church in Atlanta, encourages us that life can be much more than merely surviving until the weekend. Using his own hard-fought lessons in life to form baseball imagery that even I, picked last for every sport in grade school, not only understood but greedily devoured, he shows that the key to balancing the daily demands of personal growth, relationships, and careers is simply to put first things first, to do them in the proper order.
With his visual aid of a home plate representing the first essential step of meeting God, we can then move to the first base of working on our inner character. Only after we have some true heart change can our success at the next base of relationships improve significantly. “The quality of our relationships and the life we live will never consistently rise above the quality of character within us. We must win character battles if we hope to win at life, see our dreams fulfilled, and have peace deep in our soul.”
Only after inner character is addressed and relationships are properly nurtured can we expect the third base of our life work to flourish. And then finally, after observing these bases in order, we line up our lives for that home run that our hearts crave: to discover God’s purpose for our life and receive His power to fulfill it. Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full,” a lovely reminder that He wants us to thrive, not just survive.
With his visual aid of a home plate representing the first essential step of meeting God, we can then move to the first base of working on our inner character. Only after we have some true heart change can our success at the next base of relationships improve significantly. “The quality of our relationships and the life we live will never consistently rise above the quality of character within us. We must win character battles if we hope to win at life, see our dreams fulfilled, and have peace deep in our soul.”
Only after inner character is addressed and relationships are properly nurtured can we expect the third base of our life work to flourish. And then finally, after observing these bases in order, we line up our lives for that home run that our hearts crave: to discover God’s purpose for our life and receive His power to fulfill it. Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full,” a lovely reminder that He wants us to thrive, not just survive.
January 30, 2015
hitting a homerun
Our pastoral cluster group took this challenge to go over this book and see what God had in stored. Little did I know God was going to work in my life as we discuss the different aspects of this book. Their is so much to say how this book has helped me as a pastor to grow closer with Christ and trying to win my family and friends to Christ. This is my second discipleship book I have read in the last few months, because I want to know if their is any right or wrong way of doing discipleship. This book reminds me of Jesus using the parable because parables were stories that people related too.
The use of the baseball diamond has been like our parable, because we all have bases in life that we want to achieve. Although the diamond method is nothing new, when I was in my youth ministry class we used the diamond as a way to picture our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the utermost parts of the earth. This book is a great tool when doing discipleship because it gets you to answer the hard questions that you are afraid of asking. If you want anything in life so badly then the only way we hit a homerun is to put our hope, faith, trust, prayer, in Jesus Christ himself. We will not get very far without him. I really enjoyed reading both John and Kevins words that I took them to heart.
Our pastoral cluster group took this challenge to go over this book and see what God had in stored. Little did I know God was going to work in my life as we discuss the different aspects of this book. Their is so much to say how this book has helped me as a pastor to grow closer with Christ and trying to win my family and friends to Christ. This is my second discipleship book I have read in the last few months, because I want to know if their is any right or wrong way of doing discipleship. This book reminds me of Jesus using the parable because parables were stories that people related too.
The use of the baseball diamond has been like our parable, because we all have bases in life that we want to achieve. Although the diamond method is nothing new, when I was in my youth ministry class we used the diamond as a way to picture our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the utermost parts of the earth. This book is a great tool when doing discipleship because it gets you to answer the hard questions that you are afraid of asking. If you want anything in life so badly then the only way we hit a homerun is to put our hope, faith, trust, prayer, in Jesus Christ himself. We will not get very far without him. I really enjoyed reading both John and Kevins words that I took them to heart.
September 19, 2016
As the subtitle says, this book will help you learn God’s game plan for life and leadership. Kevin Myers has been sharing this message in his church, in leadership conferences, and now in this book with an assist from John C. Maxwell, a top leadership expert, for a number of years now. Both men have true pastors’ hearts and want to help as many as they can reach learn to live life to the fullest according to God’s plan. Using a baseball diamond as the key visual, Kevin shares how many people in all walks of life want to focus on only one base on the diamond of life while they are failing miserably on the other three. He points out that a baserunner in the game of baseball is out if he misses any of the bases on his way around the diamond. In the same way, people may have significant success on one base but miss out on a truly fulfilled life because of ignoring the other bases. Each base represents a different aspect of our lives. If you want to learn what they are and apply God’s principles to your life, I recommend you get this book and read it. You may find yourself being drawn to read it more than once and study it in detail to get the most benefit from it. As Kevin shares from his heart, John adds his perspective at strategic points and ends each chapter with an application guide and an assignment.
December 9, 2014
I received a copy of this book through a Goodreadf Giveaway contest.
Leadership is very important in todays world. It does not matter where you are, or what situation, you need people to be leaders. The name John C. Maxwell is synonymous with leadership. This book tells the tale of how a man, who a fan of John C. Maxwell, has a chance meeting with him and somehow gets Joh C. Maxwell to mentor him. What a lucky break. The man is a minister of a small church, but feels he can develop it into a larger church. Through what he learns from Maxwell, he suceeds.
Any book where we can learn from John C. Maxwell is a good book. Although he is listed as a co-author, John C, Maxwell is listed second. Most of the book is written from the point of view of the primary author Kevin Myers. That is okay, it is his story. Maxwell just provides guidance.
To some, it might come as a surprise that John C. maxwell is such a relious man. Some might be put off by that. It shpuld not matter, leadership can come in all forms and beliefs.
I recommend the book.
Leadership is very important in todays world. It does not matter where you are, or what situation, you need people to be leaders. The name John C. Maxwell is synonymous with leadership. This book tells the tale of how a man, who a fan of John C. Maxwell, has a chance meeting with him and somehow gets Joh C. Maxwell to mentor him. What a lucky break. The man is a minister of a small church, but feels he can develop it into a larger church. Through what he learns from Maxwell, he suceeds.
Any book where we can learn from John C. Maxwell is a good book. Although he is listed as a co-author, John C, Maxwell is listed second. Most of the book is written from the point of view of the primary author Kevin Myers. That is okay, it is his story. Maxwell just provides guidance.
To some, it might come as a surprise that John C. maxwell is such a relious man. Some might be put off by that. It shpuld not matter, leadership can come in all forms and beliefs.
I recommend the book.
February 16, 2014
I gotta be honest - I was skeptical when my pastor said he was writing a book. As much as I love his sermons and love my church - I realize that being a great speaker does NOT necessarily make someone a great writer.
Well, guess what.... all I can say is WOW. This book was truly awe-inspiring. Beautifully written, with so much "meat" in it. I absolutely loved it. Wish I could give it 6 stars.
Highly, highly recommended!
Well, guess what.... all I can say is WOW. This book was truly awe-inspiring. Beautifully written, with so much "meat" in it. I absolutely loved it. Wish I could give it 6 stars.
Highly, highly recommended!
January 13, 2020
"That’s our calling—to be a force for God and for good. We are to point people to God, give Him glory, and give ourselves away in the process."
We are called to live a life according to God's game plan. And knowing about it thru the perspective of baseball is very encouraging. We can all live that life if we have Jesus in our lives to guide us and help us through. Let's win this life together. Let's all make a home run.
We are called to live a life according to God's game plan. And knowing about it thru the perspective of baseball is very encouraging. We can all live that life if we have Jesus in our lives to guide us and help us through. Let's win this life together. Let's all make a home run.
May 27, 2015
Beautiful book for growth and development. This book opened my eyes to dome truths and strengths I never recognized but also allowed me to see my "work areas" that can accelerate and elevate me to the next level. I plan to make this my summer study and practical application plan. Definitely one for the home collection.
December 18, 2015
Kevin Myers shares many valuable insights into living a winning life in God's way. With added comments and challenges from John Maxwell, one is encouraged, challenged and called to live a life in the design and direction that God developed you for. I highly recommend this book to all who seek true success in life and eternity.
October 7, 2014
Excellent
We serve an excellent God who designed each one of us for a specific purpose. We are called to excellence. The book explains why and more importantly how. May we all live a homerun life.
We serve an excellent God who designed each one of us for a specific purpose. We are called to excellence. The book explains why and more importantly how. May we all live a homerun life.
August 1, 2015
Insightful and uplifting read on perspective and approach to Christ centered leadership with John Maxwell insight and reflections on approach. A great reminder on a selfless pursuit on reliance on Christ as the focus and purpose of our responsibilities as leaders.
August 28, 2015
Este es un libro con un concepto simple pero muy profundo, capaz de transformar una forma de vivir. Recomiendo este libro a aquellos que nos hemos preguntado ¿y por que todo lo que hago parece no tener sentido?
May 22, 2014
Really practical advice that is life changimf
June 12, 2014
A new perspective and a whole new way to view life as a follower of Jesus. Spot on.
July 28, 2014
Although I didn't really care for this book, I did learn from it, which is what is important.
June 30, 2014
Did not expect this to challenge me so much spiritually. Very good book for anyone trying to grow as a leader!
December 30, 2014
Life changing book, an absolute MUST READ!
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