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Author Drown has garnered wisdom through his life experience and shares it in this wide-ranging guide to developing a closer, more profound connection to God and Jesus. His journey began when he accompanied his Christian parents to a worship service at age seven, he perceived that God had spoken to him. The young boy would later announce to his father that “I want to be a basketball coach,” an ambition that would manifest for him as an adult.
Drown assembled this work from these and other incidents, stressing the need for thoughtful Christians to want and achieve “MORE,” as he has formulated it in this volume. He uses the model of faith as a key to MORE: “Focus, Abide, Inspired, Trust, and Heed.” Throughout Drown’s narrative are numerous potent examples that he has observed or experienced, including recollections of the faith of his grandfather, who, after losing a leg while working on a freight train, heard and obeyed God’s urging to become a preacher. Using a game he learned as a child, Drown regularly asked those he coached to write “All Cards” to praise their fellow players, creating warm comradeship among them.
In arraying his strong stance as a person of dedicated religious conviction, Drown recalls his forty-one-year career as a coach, weaving personal and philosophical understandings into a fascinating tapestry. In doing so, he also reveals his talents as a well-organized, sensitive wordsmith who provides a list of further reading resources to underscore the major points of his impactful treatise. He demonstrates that one can and should gain MORE intimacy with, impact for, and blessings from God while being aware that this will require much inner determination and outer change. Drown’s book delivers a significant, contemplative focus for Christian group discussion and offers opportunities for enriching individual study.