So here's a reminder: The greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase! This is a great insight, and if leaders embrace this truth it can have profound, generational outcomes. Mark holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Regent University and is the New York Times best-selling author of seventeen books, including The Circle Maker, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, Wild Goose Chase, Play the Man, Whisper, and, most recently, Double Blessing. Thank you Mark Batterson for being a leader who chases big dreams and for the encouragement and inspiration you have provided to me.

Ranging from inventors to families pursuing a child to adopt, he shows how, when these men and women finally saw their dream become a reality, they left a remarkable legacy that would bless future generations. For most people, that situation wouldn't just be a proble- - it would be the last problem they ever faced. Pastor Batterson then broadens his circles by looking at the other Mighty Men who, along with Benaiah, were attracted to King David. See, today I have appointed you over nations and over kingdoms: to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.Our greatest regrets at the end of our lives will be the opportunities we left on the table, the passions we didn’t pursue, and the dreams we didn’t go after. With grit and gusto, New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson delivers a bold message to everyone with a big dream. In “The Insanely Practical Guide to Create, Communicate, and Capture Vision,” Stephen Blandino equips you with an extraordinarily practical process to see, share, seize, and safeguard the vision. Get this book and See how God through Mark Batterson will push you out of the ordinary and show you how to take hold of the extraorinary! These have all greatly influenced me and I hope that I can influence my children and others I know and share my work with to influence millions for many generations to come.

In short this book challenges the reader to dream dreams that only could be achieved with God’s powerful intervention. Benaiah not only landed his dream job as King David’s bodyguard, but his life exceeded his wildest dreams. Join me in accepting Mark s challenge to pursue a dream so big that only God can turn it into a reality.Mark holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Regent University and is the New York Times bestselling author of 11 books, including The Circle Maker, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, Wild Goose Chase and the two most recent, The Grave Robber and Jack Staples and the Ring of Time.

There is a brand of religiosity that seems satisfied with breaking even— don’t do this, don’t do that, and you’ll be okay. Mark Batterson serves as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC, one church with multiple locations.As is my habit while reading books I underline sections that I agree with, challenge me, encourage or give me inspiration. The cure for the fear of failure is failure in small enough doses that we build up an immunity to it. Worse than many a decent self-help book, this book uses one verse about a lion slaying warrior to pitch a thinly Christianised business approach. Mostly it just repeated itself over and over, and the thing the previous reviewer said about it being just a long plug for his other books is completely correct.