A Coach For Christ

“Proven strategies to help one gain the rapport necessary to lead anyone to the Lord” (Brian Simmons, The Passion Translation). Often people don’t understand how to gain the empathy necessary to lead others, A Coach for Christ solves that problem. In it, believers discover how to relate to others so they can lead them on the right path. It is a great resource for parents desiring to help their children get into a true relationship with Jesus and transform their lives. With A Coach for Christ, believers learn the proper communication tools to help others listen to what they have to say. Once accomplished, believers will notice others are being drawn to them as they learn how to bless them in a way that satiates their true desires. A Coach for Christ is very innovative and unique in its approach to bring others into a saving relationship with the Lord. No longer will people be turned off by Christian dialogue as believers will discover new tools that work. In A Coach for Christ, believers will gain:Proven strategies to help one gain the rapport necessary to lead anyone to the LordSecular tools with a Biblical foundation to help bring others to the LordSolid Biblical truth with real tools to help train disciples to bring others to the LordAn understanding of others and the ability to relate to ALL people in order to leadA new inner narration that brings peace and love “La Vonne’s Christ-centered coaching method brings wholeness through biblical based tools to transform our body, mind, and spirit through the Holy Spirit. Through these practices our true godly identity is revealed. She will help you to experience a healthy and blessed LIFE through coming to know Jesus our number one LIFE COACH!” —Rev. Julie Scott, founder of South Pacific Women Empowered Ministry “A fabulous book! La Vonne Earl has written a clear, well-organized guide to assist in gaining confidence as a life coach, or for anyone wanting to speak truth into their own lives or the lives of others.” —Ginger Lehr, certified professional coach

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.

Guide to succeeding by following Jesus' examples.

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.

Collins presents a program for helping others realize their maximum potentialwith a God-centered approach to life coaching.

Coaching is all about relationships, with the people they lead, fellow coaches, family and with God. The Heart of a Coach Playbook helps strengthen a coach’s personal relationship with Christ while modeling biblical integrity to the players on their team and the people in their lives. This collection of 31 devotional readings, written by current and former coaches, uses realistic coaching situations and scripture references to encourage and equip coaches on the issues they face in their daily lives including character, faithfulness, persistence and commitment. Readers will be introduced to the FCA devotional method, “PRESS,” designed with athletes in mind: Pray, Read, Examine, Summarize and Share.

The busy life of a coach leaves little time to read the Bible or spend time in community with other believers. And yet the need for spiritual input for themselves and those they lead is great. Heart of a Coach is a daily devotional that provides 120 short but meaningful readings using realistic coaching situations to help coaches understand the truth and relevancy of the Bible to everyday life. It will bring insight into handling life’s daily challenges and enable the coach to use biblical principles to teach and motivate athletes. Learn from those with the heart of a coach in these readings. Also, includes Scripture references and follow up questions that speak to a the life of any coach.

We are all coaches. Whether you are a teacher, parent, sibling, friend, manager, coworker, sports coach, or strength and conditioning coach, we all have someone we can positively influence and impact on a daily basis. But every coach also needs someone to look up to for advice and guidance as well. There is no better man to look up to than the greatest coach and mentor this world has ever seen and will ever know, Jesus Christ. Coach for Christ describes how Jesus lived throughout his ministry and discusses important principles that he taught along the way so we can continually attempt to live as he died. This book and guide describes how Jesus coached through a "heaven" mindset and how we can incorporate this concept into our lives so we may coach and positively influence people as he did. As men and women of Jesus Christ, we always want to draw closer to him. By understanding how Jesus lived and walked throughout his ministry, we are better able to be like him, which will further open our hearts to lead and coach for him every day.