If you enjoy America's pastime, you'll love Playing with Purpose: Baseball Devotions-180 Spiritual Truths Drawn from the Great Game of Baseball. This devotional provides a reading a day for an entire season (or off-season!) highlighting intriguing players, both famous and less well known; important games throughout major league history; teams both current and forgotten, and much more, drawing a Bible-based point from each. Thought-provoking but never preachy, Playing with Purpose: Baseball Devotions is a perfect for fans of all ages.

If you enjoy America’s pastime, you’ll love Playing with Purpose: Baseball Devotions—180 Spiritual Truths Drawn from the Great Game of Baseball. This brand-new devotional provides a reading a day for an entire season—or off-season!—highlighting intriguing players, both famous and less well known; important games through major league history; teams both current and forgotten, and more, drawing a spiritual point from each. Thought-provoking but never preachy, Playing with Purpose: Baseball Devotions is a perfect follow-up to the Playing with Purpose biographies of Major League Baseball, National Football League, and National Basketball Association stars from Barbour.

A compilation of the authors' three separately-published volumes presenting insights into the spiritual lives of professional football, basketball and baseball athletes.

A compilation of the authors' three separately-published volumes presenting insights into the spiritual lives of professional football, basketball and baseball athletes.

Meet the "starting lineup" of talented major league players with fascinating faith stories in Playing with Purpose: Baseball. Just in time for the new pro season, this paperback edition chronicles the lives of several players who stand strong for their Christian faith on the diamond. Veteran CBA author Mike Yorkey, whose Playing with Purpose biography of NFL rookies Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, and Colt McCoy was a best-seller, now profiles major league stars both established and up-and-coming--including Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton, Clayton Kershaw, Carlos Beltran, Stephen Drew, Adrian Gonzalez, Ben Zobrist, Mark Teixeira, Jeremy Affeldt, and Mariano Rivera. Playing with Purpose: Baseball will introduce you to talented athletes with compelling faith stories.

As an athlete, you train your body and mind to be ready for competition. But what about your soul? Lead with Faith, Play with Purpose is your guide to exercising your faith, with Andy Dooley as your trainer. As a professional athlete turned pastor--and a passionate leader, Seattle Seahawks in-game host, social media influencer, and fitness trainer--Andy Dooley knows all about sports and what it takes to be a Christian on and off the field, court, or wherever you may play. A 100-day devotional written to encourage and guide athletes of any age, level, or sport, Lead with Faith, Play with Purpose is just what you need to integrate your faith into what you love to do--play your sport. Let Dooley be your spiritual trainer and coach you to: Become a better teammate in four simple steps Discover effective ways to handle stress before a competition Identify how God is working through your sport to make you more like him Understand and embrace your calling as a Christian who is also an athlete Physical training has value for our lives here on earth, yet it holds zero weight for the eternal. If you learn to be tenacious about living a godly life now as you also strive to become a better athlete and teammate, you'll change the trajectory of your life.