Finding Your Heart's Desire: Ambition, Motivation and True Success

by R.T. Kendall

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.

Genres: Self Help

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2013

Reviews

[Bethany Stewart · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not agree with most of his theology. Mostly a book about his struggles and how they are everyone's struggles. Not worth the time I spent reading it.

[Joan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book about ambition. It is Kendall's thesis that God uses our ambition to get us to do what he wants us to do. Kendall explores ambition, biblical characters showing it (both good and bad). He notes that the trait was tainted by the Fall so we must work at having our ambition be for the love of God's glory instead of our own self-interest. Kendall says you are born with ambition or not. it is not something you can learn. So, if you are not an ambitious person, this book will have limited value to you. You can see my full review at http://bit.ly/19AU2Lr.

[Teresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This a another great book by R. T. Kendall. This book will help you take another look at the direction your life is going. Easy to read. Love this author.