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The Cost Of Winning: Coming In First Across The Wrong Finish Line (2008)

by Dean Hughes(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1590389107 (ISBN13: 9781590389102)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Deseret Book

review 1: I read most of the book feeling like it would get a '3-star' rating from me. It had some very insightful ideas that made you stop and think, but the same ideas were repeated chapter after chapter with different examples and angles.Then, I love the last two chapters that share great practical application ideas. That bumped it up to four stars! The author really does have some excellent insights.
review 2: I enjoyed the rather informal style of this book, which I found more like a peek inside the ruminations of the author's mind than an expert preaching or teaching on the topic - just the thoughts and experiences of another person like me trying to find his way across the right finish line. I found many of those thoughts to resonate with my ideas of how I oug... moreht to be. I read it some time ago, but one part that stuck with me was his experience asking two questions of a Sunday School class - first what it meant to be a good Mormon (or you could substitute Baptist or any other religion), and second, what it meant to be a good Christian. The answers received from the class to the first question focused on things like attending church, paying tithes and offerings, doing home and visiting teaching, etc., while the answers to the second question focused on things like loving others, caring for the needy, treating others kindly, etc. The author then asks, shouldn't the answers to these questions be the same? I find that a good question to ponder again and again, and in so doing, consider that it isn't in doing those things that were the responses to his first question that we find our way back to God, but in doing them with a heart focused on the responses to his second question. I highly recommend this book. less

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