Product Description

Three-time Super Bowl and NASCAR champion Joe Gibbs’s Game Plan for Life is an “average Joe’s” guide to what the Bible has to say about the 11 most-important topics for men. Topics such as: finances, relationships, living a life of purpose, finding the right vocation, physical, emotional, and spiritual health, and overcoming sin and addictions. Edited by Jerry Jenkins, and featuring contributions from Randy Alcorn, Ravi Zacharias, John Lennox, Tony Evans, Chuck Colson, Josh McDowell, Don Meredith, Walt Larimore, Ron Blue, Ken Boa, and Os Guinness, Game Plan for Life shows readers how to live a balanced, God-centered, purpose-filled life, using examples of Coach Gibbs’s own storied championship careers as a backdrop. A perfect blend of sports and basic theology, Game Plan for Life is designed to bring God’s word home to sports fans of all generations.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #678 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-06
• Released on: 2009-07-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781414329796
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
“Game Plan for Life is a great guide to successful living. Joe Gibbs has always been driven, and unwilling to settle for second best. Whatever challenges he’s undertaken, he has always delivered championship results. Once again, he’s done it at a Super Bowl level. — Tony Dungy

From the Inside Flap

Meet Joe’s team

There’s no question that the game of life is the most important game we’ll ever play. It’s bigger than any Super Bowl or Cup Championship. Fortunately, God has provided us with the ultimate game plan in the Bible. Now, I know what you’re thinking—the Bible is too big to read, too hard to understand, and too old to be relevant. Well, think again.

My goal in writing this book was to show you just how practical and relevant the Bible really is. That’s why I went out and recruited the best of the best to help me explain how God’s Game Plan applies specifically to you!

These are the guys I turn to when I have questions about God, the Bible, and what each has to say about life. I can’t think of a better team to help walk you through the greatest playbook for success ever written.

Here’s the lineup:

• Randy Alcorn on Heaven
• Ron Blue on managing your finances
• Ken Boa on God
• Chuck Colson on becoming a member of God’s team
• Tony Evans on finding your purpose in life
• Os Guinness on choosing a successful career
• Walt Larimore on attaining peak physical and emotional health
• John Lennox on the origins of life
• Josh McDowell on the Bible
• Don Meredith on sex, marriage, and relationships
• Ravi Zacharias on overcoming sin and addiction

Following God’s Game Plan has made all the difference in my life. I promise it can do the same for you!

Now, let’s get started.

From the Back Cover

How do you define success?

Not many people rise to the top of two elite, highly competitive professions in their lifetime, but that is exactly what 3-time Super Bowl champion and 3-time NASCAR champion Joe Gibbs has done.
Now, for the first time, Coach Gibbs shares the principles that have guided him to success in every area of his life and explains how you can make those same principles work for you.
Join Joe and his team of experts as they walk you through the greatest playbook for success ever written and address the eleven issues a national survey identified as the most important ones facing men today:

• The Bible: Can I believe it?
• God: Who is He?
• Origins of Life: How did it all begin?
• Sin and Addiction: How do I overcome temptation?
• Salvation: How do I get on the winning team?
• Relationships: How can I strengthen my marriage?
• Finances: How do I master my money?
• Work: How do I build a successful career?
• Health: How do I achieve peak physical and emotional health?
• Purpose: How do I get the most out of life?
• Heaven: Where will I spend eternity?

So, what do you say?
Are you ready to become a champion?

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Customer Reviews

The X's and O's for the Gridiron of Life
Joe Gibbs has had an incredible professional career in sports - three-time Super Bowl winning head coach of the Washington Redskins and owner of a three-time NASCAR championship team that has nearly 500 employees - but it was never a clear trail to the winner's circle.

He has stumbled off the path and needed to double-back a few times due to feeling that he had all the questions and answers to life. Yes, this successful head coach sometimes thought he could outsmart the Head Coach.

"Life to me is a game, and you and I are the players. God is our Head Coach, and no one wants to lose the biggest game of all," writes Gibbs. "In the game of life, our Head Coach loved us enough to send His Son to die for our sins."

Christian faith is the cornerstone to gaining a true understanding to the meaning of life - through the Head Coach (God) and Playbook (the Bible) - and Gibbs utilizes personal accounts that are candid and conversational in tone to set the foundation for tackling a number of issues within the 14 chapters of Game Plan for Life: Your Personal Playbook for Success (2009 hardcover; Tyndale House Publishers).

Gibbs personally commissioned a respected national public opinion research firm to survey men and find out what they are most concerned about and where they'd like to have success in their lives. It revealed 11 areas of prime concern - including health, finances, relationships and overcoming sin - which then allowed him to develop a team of experts to address each topic.

"See, the bottom line is that I have found something special, something that works, something that has given me a sense of peace and purpose and fulfillment. But despite what a few sportswriters and a kind business associate or two have said along the way, I'm about as far from being an intellectual as you can get," Gibbs writes. "I was a P.E. major. You know, physical education: ballroom dancing and handball!

"I'm no scholar. I'm a regular guy who saw his dream come true."

There are 11 unique voices, with Dr. Ken Boa (The Coach: Who Is God?), Ravi Zacharias (Sin and Addiction: How Do I Deal with Sin?), Charles Colson (Salvation: How Do I Get on God's Winning Team?) and Don Meredith (What Does God Say about Marriage and Sex?) delivering particularly strong messages.

The book is truly organic in design and an educational tool that can be utilized and shared with others for many years. "Remember, life is a team sport," Gibbs writes.

Great Read for Men
Joe Gibbs - the man behind Joe Gibbs Racing (NASCAR) and two stints as head coach of the Washington Redskins - has released a book with his new "team" of experts.

Game Plan for Life is written for men. But I don't understand why women couldn't have been involved as experts. Maybe it's just his way. (But don't be offended, it's still a great book)

Each chapter is devoted to an area of life men are concerned about. Gibbs asks 11 different people to address each topic after he shares a few pages from his own life.

The topics include:
Finances by Ron Blue
Health by Dr Walt Larimore
Relationships by Don Meredith
Vocation by Dr Os Guinness
The Bible by Josh McDowell
God by Dr Ken Boa
Creation by Dr John Lennox
Sin and Addiction by Ravi Zacharias
Salvation by Chuck Colson
Purpose by Dr Tony Evans
Heaven by Randy Alcorn

As a fan of football and those who profess to be followers of Christ in the national media, I greatly enjoyed reading about the struggles and success of Coach Gibbs and how he became a devoted man of God.

better than Tony Dungy's book
I have been reading Joe Gibbs book "game plan for life" and wanted to share my thoughts so others will also read this book. I was expecting a book like Tony Dungy's. I really enjoyed his book and was hoping for another good one. As I started reading Gibbs book, I realized that his book is much deeper than Dungy's. Game plan for life goes deeper into topics of Christianity and lets ones know the truth about various topics.

This book is broken up by various authors who share their thoughts on various topics. Gibbs selected various ones who are educated in certain areas to share their thoughts.

Football is mentioned in this book, but it is not the main topic in this book. Gibbs does a good job of introducing different religious topics.

I would recognmend checking this book out at your local bookstore.