Best Selling Books by Mike Yorkey

If you enjoy the NFL and college game, you''ll love Tackling Truth--175 Spiritual Truths Drawn from the Great Game of Football. This brand-new devotional provides a reading a day for an entire season--or off-season --highlighting intriguing players, both famous and less well known; important games through pro and college history; teams both current and forgotten, and more, drawing a spiritual point from each. Thought-provoking but never preachy, Tackling Truth is a perfect follow-up to the Playing with Purpose biographies of Major League Baseball, National Football League, and National Basketball Association stars from Barbour.

A how-to guide to help parents recognize and heed the warning signs of today''s hip culture, including threats that weren''t around 20 or 30 years ago.

Climb aboard The American Orient Express for a journey over the Continental Divide, through Salt Lake City, and to the nation''s grandest national parks, Yellowstone and Grand Teton.

A practical guide for individuals and men’s groups designed to help you win the war on sexual temptation…the comprehensive workbook you’ve been waiting for: the companion workbook to the liberating message proclaimed inEvery Man’s Battle. Every Man’s Battle Workbookguides you through serious Bible study, intense examination of your personal life, and an honest application of biblical truth. In these practical, real-life lessons–easy to use by individuals or groups in both 8- or 13-week tracks–you’ll find: • Realistic help straight from God’s Word to actively train your eyes and your mind. • A special focus on the standard set by God in Ephesians 5:3: “There must not be even a hint of sexual immorality.” • Highlighted excerpts from the best-selling book,Every Man’s Battle. • “Personal Journey into God’s Word” sections including reflective explorations of topics such as God’s holiness, your power for victory, God’s view of true manhood, God’s gift of purity, your deepest desires, and many others. Let Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker guide you through self-discovery and Bible study, equipping you with a practical battle plan to live a pure life God’s way–even in the midst of a sexually soaked culture.

On February 7, 2010, trailing 10-6 to the Indianapolis Colts at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton made one of the gutsiest calls in Super Bowl history when they started the second half with an onside kick called Ambush. Chris Reis, a back-up safety, wasn’t supposed to recover the onside kick, but when the squiggling ball bounced off the chest of a Colts player, Chris pounced on the ball—and held on for everything he was worth. His recovery changed the tenor of the game and propelled the Saints to their first Super Bowl victory—and gave their Hurricane Katrina-weary fans something to cheer about. Watching the Super Bowl game that day in Miami was Chris’ father, Mike. He needed his own recovery—a recovery from his addiction to alcohol, sex, and a life filled with bad choices and poor decisions. Mike Reis grew up on the working class streets of Chicago, the son of a boozing father and a teenage mother who struggled with life. Sexually abused and terrorized by his grandmother, Mike and his family moved during his teen years to Atlanta, where he discovered sex at an early age and used alcohol to numb his emotional pain. An early marriage to a high school sweetheart and the subsequent birth of two sons failed to tame his desire for sexual trysts and all-night drinking escapades. An affair led to the destruction of his first marriage and left two preschool-aged sons without a father in the home. The younger son was Chris Reis, a two-year-old who didn’t understand why his father had abandoned him, and the distance between father and son remained a chasm as wide as the Grand Canyon during the boy’s younger years. After his playing days at Georgia Tech, Chris won a spot on the New Orleans Saints roster. After his recovery of the onside kick in Super Bowl XLIV, there was one more recovery that needed to be made in Chris’ family—his father.

Former NFL wife Cyndy Feasel tells the tragic story of her family''s journey into chaos and darkness resulting from the damage her husband suffered due to football-related concussions and head trauma--and the faith that saved her. "If I''d only known what I loved the most would end up killing me and taking away everything I loved, I would have never done it." - Grant Feasel Grant Feasel spent ten years in the NFL, playing 117 games as a center and a long snapper mostly for the Seattle Seahawks. The skull-battering, jaw-shaking collisions he absorbed during those years ultimately destroyed his marriage and fractured his family. Grant died on July 15, 2012, at the age of 52, the victim of alcohol abuse and a degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Cyndy Feasel watched their life together become a living hell as alcohol became Grant''s medication for a disease rooted in the scores of concussions he suffered on the football field. Helmet-to-helmet collisions opened the door to CTE and transformed him from a sunny, strong, and loving man into a dark shadow of his former self. In this raw and emotional memoir that takes a closer look at the destruction wrought by a game millions love, Cyndy describes in painful and excruciating detail what can happen to an NFL player and his family when the stadium empties and the lights go down. A powerful tale of warning for football moms and NFL wives everywhere, After the Cheering Stops is also a story of the hard-won hope found in God''s presence when everything else falls apart.

Ken Verheyen knows the trappings of worldly success. He''s the CEO of Astro Pak, a profitable middle-market company that allows him and his family to live in upscale Newport Beach, California, sail aboard a sleek yacht, and travel the world-before the pandemic. He understands why he''s treated deferentially in business and social settings. But ever since Ken began working at a company co-founded by his father, God impressed upon his heart to take a different route toward what the world calls "success." Instead of seeking the corner office where the CEO reigned, Ken felt the Lord telling him to make Matthew 6:33-"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and everything will be added unto you"-his life verse. Once Ken realigned his way of looking at life and doing business through the lens of being kingdom-centric, God gave him five more life verses. In Crazy Success, Ken shares his "Super Six" and how true success in life has nothing to do with accumulating wealth or position but is all about living how God tells us how to live. He also gives you the tools to abandon the world''s teaching on seeking wealth and status and instead live in a way that creates a type of success here on earth that will follow you into eternity. If you''re looking to align your hopes, dreams, and goals with God''s top priorities, then start your search for crazy success today.

Elishaba Doerksen was the oldest of fifteen children born to ex-hippies Robert and Kurina Hale-- also known as Papa Pilgrim and Country Rose. Elishaba grew up in a dilapidated 341-square-foot log cabin in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico, isolated from civilization by a fundamentalist father intent on keeping his large family cloistered from a godless world. When she was nineteen, Papa Pilgrim began taking liberties with Elishaba in unimaginable ways and beating her--and her siblings--when he judged them to be "rebellious." The horrific sexual and physical abuse continued after the family moved to a remote valley in the Alaska wilderness. After ten years of terrifying mistreatment, Elishaba gathered her courage to make a run for it on a snowmobile. What happens next is the basis for a powerful, dramatic story about perseverance, faith, and redemption, as well as forgiveness. This is the first time that Elishaba has told her side of a story that garnered national attention with major articles in the Washington Post, NPR, and Outside magazine as well as a significant buzz on social media. She needed time to heal, but now she''s ready to tell the world what it was like living with Papa Pilgrim--and how she overcame some of the worst trauma a daughter can experience at the hands of a father.

With little time and even less energy at the end of their work days, the authors realized they needed help in order to be the kind of dads they really wanted to be. This guide is filled with straightforward advice, important statistics, and practical ideas designed to equip men to be great dads.