Finishing Strong: Going the Distance for Your Family

by Steve Farrar

Publisher:

Multnomah

, 1995

Overview

Bestselling author Steve Farrar has good news for the average man: it doesn't matter if you've had a great start in the Christian life, or a rough one. It doesn't matter if you've stumbled time and again, or even fallen flat on your face. What matters most in this all-important race of life is how you finish. According to Farrar, the man who hangs in there for the long haul with his wife, his kids, and his Lord is an exception these days. Finishing Strong offers lively use of Scripture, contemporary illustrations, and study questions to equip every reader to be that exception. For the man who wants to climb the character ladder more than the corporate one, this is an essential tool.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Those men have their backs to the finish line! So how can they possibly finish strong? How do they pace themselves and how do they know when to sprint? If they can’t see the finish line and focus upon it, then how in the world can they row an effective race? The answer is that they focus on the coxswain. He’s the guy with the megaphone sitting at the end of the boat facing the crew. He’s the only one who knows where the finish line is. So the men at the oars look to him, listen to him, obey his commands, and count on him to coach them to the finish. He paces them, he encourages them, and they trust him implicitly to get them across the finish line in the strongest possible way. They are counting on the coxswain to enable them to finish strong.” (Page 30)

“In the Christian life, it’s not how you start that matters. It’s how you finish.” (Page 17)

“the ten had a greater fear of man than they did of God.” (Page 20)

“What makes you think that you will be the one man out of ten who finishes strong?” (Page 18)

“As it turned out, the work was hard, the conditions horrible, and the people hostile and unresponsive. Their lives were constantly in danger.” (Page 24)

Product Details

• Title: Finishing Strong: Going the Distance for Your Family
• Author: Steve Farrar
• Publisher: Multnomah
• Publication Date: 1995

About Steve Farrar

Steve Farrar is the founder and chairman of Men's Leadership Ministries. A graduate of California State University, Fullerton, with a Master's degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, he also has an earned a doctorate from Dallas Theological Seminary. Steve authored the best-selling book, Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family and has since written fifteen other books. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, for Promise Keepers and at many other events nationwide. Steve and his wife, Mary, have three grown children and currently reside in suburban Dallas, Texas.