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The Courage Factor: Taking Bold Steps That Lead to Joy
Your life is a priceless commodity that can be leveraged for good. There is no reason to live in fear, locking away your gifts and talents. Let The Courage Factor challenge you to pursue your dreams and invest your life. An abundance of joy will follow. It's the unexpected reward for outrageous courage.
Inside The Courage Factor is the key to joy. Do you have the courage to boldly pursue it? Let my friend Bob Westfall take you on a journey of discovery - an exciting and fulfilling trek that he traces back two thousand years. Are you intrigued? Then take the challenge! Open the book. Read on with an open heart and mind!
- Lee Strobel , New York Times best- selling author
Throughout The Courage Factor , readers will meet inspiring individuals with stories that illustrate how even our dark moments and detours can prepare us for significance if we embrace courage and step forward in faith. Discover the potential we each have to unlock and accelerate the dreams and talents of those around us. In key moments of decision, pivotal moments where fear and courage do battle, learn to recognize these moments for what they are, defeat fear, and turn risk into reward. Courageous and fully invested people can change the world, and you can be one of them.
It's one thing for a person to possess courage and quite another to inspire others to have it too. Bob Westfall has inspired numerous ministry leaders to conquer their fears, stretch their faith, and set their sights on accomplishing the impossible. Millions of hurting people have received help and found hope because ministry leaders followed the principles found in The Courage Factor . Place this book on top of your reading stack - you'll be glad you did.
- Hal Donaldson , president of Convoy of Hope
The Courage Factor stopped me in my tracks. I felt God saying, 'Hey, big shot, I gave you your talent... how have you used it for me?' Thanks, Bob, for rocking me big time. It's never too late to shoot for the moon and spiritually turn a dime into a dollar.
- John Elefante , former lead singer of Kansas, Grammy and Dove award-winning performer/producer
In this outstanding book, Bob challenges you to get off the sidelines and get into the game! God takes our gifts and all that we invest and exponentially multiplies it for his purposes. Too often, believers hold back, wondering, 'Am I good enough? Are my gifts compelling enough? Can God use me?' Bob challenges us to step past our fear and start using all we've been given for God's glory, promising that if we do, we will find joy...
- Becky Harling , best-selling author of How to Listen So People Will Talk and The 30 Day Praise Challenge
By sharing good fortune with others, we foster and build communities of care and respect, uplifting those around us through our good deeds and actions. The Courage Factor paints a compelling portrait that details the inherent power of giving.
- Isadore Sharp , founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
I'll never think the same way again about the Parable of the Talents. Bob has defined this parable and, with real stories, makes it jump off the page and come alive in a way I've never heard... I've seen Bob's program and its effectiveness, and now it's clear where his passion comes from.
- Andrew Covington , president of Dufresne Spencer Group (DBA Ashley Homestores)
Inside The Courage Factor is the key to joy. Do you have the courage to boldly pursue it? Let my friend Bob Westfall take you on a journey of discovery - an exciting and fulfilling trek that he traces back two thousand years. Are you intrigued? Then take the challenge! Open the book. Read on with an open heart and mind!
- Lee Strobel , New York Times best- selling author
Throughout The Courage Factor , readers will meet inspiring individuals with stories that illustrate how even our dark moments and detours can prepare us for significance if we embrace courage and step forward in faith. Discover the potential we each have to unlock and accelerate the dreams and talents of those around us. In key moments of decision, pivotal moments where fear and courage do battle, learn to recognize these moments for what they are, defeat fear, and turn risk into reward. Courageous and fully invested people can change the world, and you can be one of them.
It's one thing for a person to possess courage and quite another to inspire others to have it too. Bob Westfall has inspired numerous ministry leaders to conquer their fears, stretch their faith, and set their sights on accomplishing the impossible. Millions of hurting people have received help and found hope because ministry leaders followed the principles found in The Courage Factor . Place this book on top of your reading stack - you'll be glad you did.
- Hal Donaldson , president of Convoy of Hope
The Courage Factor stopped me in my tracks. I felt God saying, 'Hey, big shot, I gave you your talent... how have you used it for me?' Thanks, Bob, for rocking me big time. It's never too late to shoot for the moon and spiritually turn a dime into a dollar.
- John Elefante , former lead singer of Kansas, Grammy and Dove award-winning performer/producer
In this outstanding book, Bob challenges you to get off the sidelines and get into the game! God takes our gifts and all that we invest and exponentially multiplies it for his purposes. Too often, believers hold back, wondering, 'Am I good enough? Are my gifts compelling enough? Can God use me?' Bob challenges us to step past our fear and start using all we've been given for God's glory, promising that if we do, we will find joy...
- Becky Harling , best-selling author of How to Listen So People Will Talk and The 30 Day Praise Challenge
By sharing good fortune with others, we foster and build communities of care and respect, uplifting those around us through our good deeds and actions. The Courage Factor paints a compelling portrait that details the inherent power of giving.
- Isadore Sharp , founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
I'll never think the same way again about the Parable of the Talents. Bob has defined this parable and, with real stories, makes it jump off the page and come alive in a way I've never heard... I've seen Bob's program and its effectiveness, and now it's clear where his passion comes from.
- Andrew Covington , president of Dufresne Spencer Group (DBA Ashley Homestores)
144 pages, Hardcover
Published August 25, 2020
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April 13, 2021
I received an ARC from Leafwood Publishers, via NetGalley. This review is my personal opinion.
This book is truly encouraging, Bob Westfall start telling his own story on how God gave him a dream and a vision and the challenges he had through the years. Taking the parables of talents he encourages us to believe, trust, dream and take action with what we have in our hands now and let God do the rest. In his book, he also shared the story of several of his friends and the impact those included by the grace of God are making a lasting impact on others. Many of us want to serve God, but we think we need to learn more about God, have more money, be more attractive. Bob Westfall encourages us to stop believing those lies and to believe that God already gave us what we need to start and that we won’t be alone in our road.
This book is truly encouraging, Bob Westfall start telling his own story on how God gave him a dream and a vision and the challenges he had through the years. Taking the parables of talents he encourages us to believe, trust, dream and take action with what we have in our hands now and let God do the rest. In his book, he also shared the story of several of his friends and the impact those included by the grace of God are making a lasting impact on others. Many of us want to serve God, but we think we need to learn more about God, have more money, be more attractive. Bob Westfall encourages us to stop believing those lies and to believe that God already gave us what we need to start and that we won’t be alone in our road.
August 20, 2021
What a wonderful book that showcases how ordinary people made changes in their life to experience joy in their life. This book will help you determine ways to experience this joy. Very nice blueprint for help with this. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the arc of this book in return for my honest review. Receiving the book in this manner had no bearing on this reveiw.
December 28, 2020
Needed to hear this
This book was timely for me, as I’ve recently been given the responsibility to run an organization, and feel woefully under equipped. Thank you for the encouragement!
This book was timely for me, as I’ve recently been given the responsibility to run an organization, and feel woefully under equipped. Thank you for the encouragement!
August 23, 2020
Really enjoyed this book. Based on the Parable of the Talents, the author was able to look at the different aspect in how we are to serve in the church and in our lives today. A good read and a good challenge in my life to first question and then to apply the concepts in my life. Would recommend it to my friends who are looking to make a change in their lives and to find that courage they have within themselves.
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