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Go bungee jumping. Tango. See the Eiffel Tower. Swim with sharks.Bucket lists can get pretty crazy! But what if God wanted you to think even further outside the box? To pattern your life after the one who said some pretty crazy things himself: "Love your enemies." "Store up treasures in heaven." "Seek first his kingdom and righteousness."If you checked every item off your bucket list, would your life be complete? In these pages you'll find 52 items to help you revamp your must-do list...Run with scissors. Bounce off brick walls. Celebrate quirks.Banish grudges. Dodge counterfeit happiness. Peek into dark corners.Get fired. Enlist invisible reinforcements. Get nose-to-nose with an alligator.As you check off God's bucket list, you may find yourself doing things you never thought possible. Jay Payleitner helps you get your priorities straight with the most important relationship in your life--you and God.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 septembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736962711
Langue	English

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WHAT IF GOD WROTE YOUR BUCKET LIST?
Copyright 2015 Jay Payleitner
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Payleitner, Jay K.
What if God wrote your bucket list? / Jay Payleitner.
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ISBN 978-0-7369-6271-1 (eBook)
1. Christian life. I. Title.
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Dedication
To Paul Gossard,
who knows the way
Acknowledgments
For 25 years, I ve been given specific assignments and deadlines to seek truth, know truth, present truth, and draw individuals to the truth. In every media imaginable. Print, radio, television, social media, direct mail, video walls, books, periodicals, and public speaking. Even T-shirts, posters, and distributing literature on street corners in Moscow. That s what happens when you establish yourself as a freelance writer/producer/speaker in the Christian marketplace.
Let me share a few career highlights. Writing the first print ad for Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye s megaselling Left Behind series. Recording Josh McDowell speaking with a guard in a Soviet-era prison. Being a guest on Focus on the Family . Producing broadcasts featuring Bill Bright, Zig Ziglar, Chuck Colson, Dennis Rainey, Luis Palau, TobyMac, and many other respected Christian communicators. Speaking on behalf of Iron Sharpens Iron, AWANA, MOPS, the National Center for Fathering, and scores of local churches and regional ministries.
I am humbly grateful to the leadership and media teams of all those ministries and many others. Your integrity, passion, and commitment to truth and excellence have forever impacted my life and most assuredly can be found in the pages of this book.
Thank you to my agent and dear friend, Dan Balow. And to the team at Harvest House, especially my patient editor, Gene Skinner. I appreciate your TLC more than you know.
To my growing family-Rita, Alec, Lindsay, Randall, Rachel, Max, Megan, Isaac, Kaitlin, Rae Anne, Judah, Jackson, and Emerson-you inspire and motivate me. I love you all.
And to my Savior, Jesus, who went to the cross for each and every one of us. Without your perfect love, none of this makes any sense.
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Josh McDowell
Got a Bucket List?
1. Set Goals-but Not in Concrete
2. Drive Through the Storm
3. Become like Little Children
4. Be Last in Line
5. Reconsider Rules Carved in Stone
6. Go to Funerals
7. Love and Be Loved
8. Don t Put God in a Box
9. Come to the Garden
10. Put a Price on Your Head
11. Get Fired
12. No Excuses
13. Bounce Off Brick Walls
14. Redefine Vacation
15. Entertain Angels
16. Shun Easy Money
17. Create
18. Get Schooled at the County Fair
19. Get Out of Hot Water
20. Practice Your Penmanship
21. Live Grudge-Free
22. Take Note of Any Quick Fix
23. Kill Em with Kindness
24. Uncover Secrets of Generations Past
25. Make Sure You re Missed
26. Do Typical Bucket-List Stuff
27. Peek into Dark Corners
28. Get Nose-to-Nose with an Alligator
29. Dredge Up Mud-Filled Schlitz Cans
30. Strive Valiantly
31. Talk to Me
32. Dodge Counterfeit Happiness
33. Attend a Wild Game Night
34. Harvest the Fruit
35. Keep the Opposite of a To-Do List
36. Run with Scissors
37. Advocate Science
38. Ask to Play Football
39. Go Beyond Golden
40. Be a Friend
41. Be Ready to Die
42. Arm Yourself for Mockers
43. Untangle the Conundrum of Nice People
44. Be Your Brother s Keeper
45. Celebrate Quirks
46. Recognize Jesus
47. Seek Wise Counsel
48. Know the Pythagorean Theorem
49. Give Credit Where Credit Is Due
50. Do the Right Thing
51. Write Your Tombstone
52. Finish What You Start
Notes
About the Publisher
Foreword
by Josh D. McDowell
O ur Creator is in the business of creating order out of chaos. God uses lists to help us order our lives and learn more about him. He used a seven-day plan to create the universe. He gave Moses a list on Mount Sinai-the Ten Commandments. Jesus provided a wonderfully useful list of eternal values, the Beatitudes, as a code of ethics for those who would follow him. The nine fruit of the Spirit are listed in Galatians as virtues God develops in every believer. God doesn t want us to obsess about making lists or panic about checking off dozens of specific tasks before we die, but lists can be very handy.
My list-making goes way back. During my first year in college, I drafted a multi-point strategic plan for the next 25 years of my life. It wasn t called a bucket list back then, but my goals were dead serious. I mapped out 50 six-month periods with clear objectives and concrete plans for the next quarter century. My strategic plan ended with me being elected governor of Michigan.
The first step was running for and being elected freshman class president. Check. In the next few months, I tackled a few more objectives. Check, check, and check. The next major item of my strategic plan was a required yearlong research project. I knew it had to be a controversial topic with significant historical, cultural, and legal implications, and I had to knock it out of the park. I also knew that if I was going to invest a year of my life, it would need to be a topic for which I had a personal passion and something to prove.
Those who have heard my testimony won t be surprised to hear the topic I chose for that term paper. At the time, I was still struggling with my mother s death and my father s alcoholism. Looking for answers, I had turned briefly to religion but found it shallow, phony, and foolish. That s when I told my English professor I was going to do a serious historical study that would-once and for all-refute Christianity as nothing but meaningless fables.
My months of research uncovered a list of 119 separate events and situations I would have to explain away before I could honestly and intellectually reject Jesus Christ. As I studied, my carefully constructed strategic plan started to derail, and the research led me to the place we all need to be-at the foot of the cross, acknowledging our sin and asking God to forgive us and clean up our lives.
Since then, my strategic plan has been dedicated to answering God s call. You might think the plan would be quite complex. But it really isn t. You might even call it my three-point bucket list. In more than 50 years, I ve given thousands of talks and written thousands of pages, and it all comes down to these three points: Get to heaven. Take as many people with me as possible. Enjoy every moment.
This three-point plan still motivates me in all I do. But I can also certainly see how 14 words don t exactly fill a book. That s why I m glad my friend Jay Payleitner has taken on the challenge of hanging meat on that skeleton. Between the easy-to-read stories and observations, Jay delivers the kind of insight that helps give purpose to our time on earth. I believe any reader who opens their heart and mind to these 52 chapters will discover they are right in line with God s will for their lives. So keep reading. And be ready to experience the abundant life Jesus promises in John 10:10 when he says, I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Got a Bucket List?
Y ou know the concept, right? Otherwise you wouldn t have picked up this book.
Briefly defined. A bucket list is quite literally a list-written down or mulled over in your mind-of things you want to do before you kick the bucket.
The term was actually little known until the 2007 movie directed by Rob Reiner and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. If you haven t seen The Bucket List , I recommend it. The veteran actors portray Edward and Carter, older gentlemen from differing backgrounds sharing a hospital room, undergoing chemo treatments, and revealing regrets of two lives unfulfilled. Diagnosed with terminal cancer-and against their doctor s advice-they set off on a breathtaking trip around the world to cross off items from a handwritten checklist of things to do before they die. Edward and Carter make some bad choices and some good ones. And they ask spiritual questions we all need to ask.
But this book is not about their buck