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Finding Your Heart's Desire: Ambition, Motivation and True Success
By R.T. Kendall
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Biblical Teaching on Ambition Offers Surprising, Discerning Insights
What drives a person to seek significance on this earth? Is it okay to want to feel important? Is ambition wrong?
With his usual warmth, humor, and candor, beloved pastor and author R. T. Kendall explores what makes a human tick--and why it is important to know. Ambition, he states, is not inherently good or evil. It is a gift, and one of the main ways God motivates his children to do his will.
Readers will delight in self-discovery as they
• Become aware of their hidden motives
• Understand what it means to be objective about themselves
• Learn patience before judging others
• Channel their ambition into actions that please God
The greatest satisfaction, Kendall contends, comes from experiencing praise that God alone can give. Whatever their level of ambition, readers will discover honor and significance as God means for them to enjoy it. This, says Kendall, is true fulfillment and success.
What drives a person to seek significance on this earth? Is it okay to want to feel important? Is ambition wrong?
With his usual warmth, humor, and candor, beloved pastor and author R. T. Kendall explores what makes a human tick--and why it is important to know. Ambition, he states, is not inherently good or evil. It is a gift, and one of the main ways God motivates his children to do his will.
Readers will delight in self-discovery as they
• Become aware of their hidden motives
• Understand what it means to be objective about themselves
• Learn patience before judging others
• Channel their ambition into actions that please God
The greatest satisfaction, Kendall contends, comes from experiencing praise that God alone can give. Whatever their level of ambition, readers will discover honor and significance as God means for them to enjoy it. This, says Kendall, is true fulfillment and success.
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R.T. Kendall
R. T. Kendall was the pastor of Westminster Chapel in London, England, for twenty-five years. He was educated at Trevecca Nazarene University (AB), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Oxford University (DPhil) and has written a number of books, including Total Forgiveness, Holy Fire, and We've Never Been This Way Before.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A comparative view of biblical individuals and what motivated them to seek God and puts forth the question to the reader of their personal motivation, The author relates personal experiences in his journey with deity and self revelation towards enlightened stewardship. At the heart of the matter it compels the reader to reflectively consider that God reaches out to all individuals, in all time periods, no matter their circumstances and invites them to know Him.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5R.T. Kendall is combining two different genres in this book, "Finding Your Heart's Desire". He is blending his own biography as an arrogant, know-it-all minister as he has to discover he doesn't know it all. And he is also showing that finding your own faults is an important part of being an adult from other stories, mainly Bibically. He assumes the reader has a hifh level of Bibical literacy.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I started reading this book and then set it down. I am intrigued and want to read it but it initially did not grab me and keep my attention. I hope to try it again at another time.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's a pretty good book. It comes off kind of arrogant because he is a very ambitious person! He basically lists all his accolades and makes you feel like you're reading a biography. I can't say that its bad because it does have some good principles but, it's not my favorite book of his.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a good book that offers effective spiritiual advice for living one's life. I recommend it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It is so hard sometimes to know what God wants us to do, or not do. And how to do those things with the right motives. R. T. Kendall helps us in this book to find that path.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The subject matter of this book is quite interesting, and some of the points made were quite informative. Unfortunately, the text was a lot longer and wordy than it needed to be, at least for me. It also seemed to ramble a bit at times. I typically read commentaries that are more terse in their treatment, so this book may be quite helpful to people looking for help understanding a subject like ambition and man's drive to accomplish things. Since I received a review copy (i.e. without page numbers in the contents, etc.), the final text may be much more polished. It's also still a short book, so it won't cost the reader a lot of time to read.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A slightly different view of ambition, which has traditionally been a no-no (for some reason). Simply written and easy to read. I only gave it two stars because, even though the description mentions God's will, this book is strictly for the very religious.