Best Selling Books by Mike Yorkey

Meet the "dream team" of talented NBA players with fascinating faith stories in Playing with Purpose: Basketball. For the first time in paperback, this book chronicles the lives of several players who stand strong for their Christian faith. Veteran CBA author Mike Yorkey, whose Playing with Purpose biography of NFL rookies Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, and Colt McCoy was a best-seller, now profiles NBA stars both established and up-and-coming--such as Jeremy Lin, Kevin Durant, Kyle Korver, Anthony Parker, Luke Ridnour, and Chris Kaman. With a foreword by Ernie Johnson, host of TNT''s NBA coverage, Playing with Purpose: Basketball is perfect for any hoops fan.

Although it reads like fiction, this story could not be more true: the miraculous rescue of Elian Gonzalez and the incredible effort to keep the Cuban boy in America. It is also the account of God at work in the life of a man, Elian''s rescuer, as told in his own words.

Many people live beyond their means without realizing it, and find themselves what seems to be hopelessly entrapped in debt. In this Real Solutions book, with wit, sound financial advice, and common sense, author Mike Yorkey describes the causes of chronic indebtedness. And he prescribes tested ways of breaking the easy credit habit, saving money, and paying as you go.

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.

Here is the comprehensive guide men have been waiting for: the companion workbook to the bestseller "Every Woman''s Desire." In these practical, real-life lessons--easy to use by individuals or groups--readers will find clear teaching, easy-to-follow Bible studies, reflection and discussion questions, real-life case studies, and practical applications.

Parents can learn to gauge a child''s interest in golf, seed their path to the green, determine what kind of clubs and balls to use, and teach golf etiquette and proper attire. Included is an instructional DVD with golf pro Wally Armstrong.

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.

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.

"For a long time, Frank Sontag blazed his own trail. Growing up in an Italian-American neighborhood in Cleveland, Frank and his family moved to the Los Angeles area in the mid-1960s when he was nine years old. Precocious for his age-he skipped fourth grade-he was the product of the do-your-own-thing, love-the-one-you''re-with attitude of the Sixties. He worked in supermarkets during his twenties while pursuing pleasure. A horrific motorcycle accident should have killed him, but he survived, which set him on a quest to find out why he was still alive. His search led him to a grab bag of spiritual philosophies, with New Age thought leading the way. A career change into Los Angeles radio gave him the opportunity to host a Sunday night talk show called Impact on the biggest classic rock station in Los Angeles-KLOS 95.5 FM. For twenty-one years, Frank led a region-wide discussion on spirituality that was open to all faiths and all philosophies, except for one based on a Savior who died on a cross nearly 2,000 years ago. Little did Frank know that Jesus Christ was calling him on a different line." -- cover.

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.

A compilation of the authors'' three separately-published volumes presenting insights into the spiritual lives of professional football, basketball and baseball athletes.