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With Everything
Words and music by Joel Houston
2008 Hillsong Music Publishing
Prince Of Peace
Words and music by Joel Houston, Matt Crocker & Dylan Thomas
2015 Hillsong Music Publishing
Mountain
Words and music by Matt Crocker & Joel Houston
2012 Hillsong Music Publishing
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If leadership is defined by the influence you have on another, then Bobbie Houston is at the top of her game. Her longevity and credibility as a leader is only surmounted by her passion and focus to see heaven come to Earth through the extraordinary love of Christ in ordinary people. Stay the Path will give you invaluable insight into her miraculous journey of godly leadership.
John C. Maxwell, author and leadership expert
Life is a daring adventure full of opportunities, obstacles, challenges, disappointments, and victories. We each have our own lane in this race we are called to run; Stay the Path by Bobbie Houston provides a powerful, practical, and inspirational road map on how to navigate the endless twists and turns of life so that you can fulfill your God-given destiny. Wisdom gained over decades of faithfulness, steadfastness, commitment, and tenacity is precious and priceless, and Im grateful that Bobbie has penned these pages. She shares her journey with grace and strength, and champions us all to run our race and to finish our course. This is a book that I will keep on my bookshelf and refer to over and over again.
Christine Caine, founder of A21
This is a very powerful message, rooted in biblical principles, that every believer can benefit from, especially with the current issues and circumstances we are facing around the world today. Im excited to see how God is using Bobbie Houston to help strengthen Christians in their faith.
Joyce Meyer, Bible teacher and bestselling author
A lot of people start strong, but few finish strong. If there is anyone who can teach you how to run your race and finish well, its Pastor Bobbie Houston. Her important new book, Stay the Path, is full of wisdom, warmth, and depth that will encourage you to do the right things today so youll end up at the right place in the future. My family is thankful for Bobbies example. We are different and better because we have learned from her. You will be too.
Craig and Amy Groeschel, pastors of Life. Church and authors of From This Day Forward
With simplicity and relatable warmth, Bobbie shares some of the challenges and experiences that shaped her life as a woman in leadership at Hillsong Church. Stay the Path will tug at your heartstrings and challenge you to create strongholds that will help you have unshakable faith in the face of adversity.
Kay and Rick Warren, founders of Saddleback Church
Our friend Bobbie Houston is a wordsmith, and as such her book Stay the Path is at once poetic and prophetic. Each page of this captivating read is an invitation to weigh your life in the eternal balance and lead as the One we were told to follow would. Pastor Bobbies dearest desire is to see men and women, young and old, finish the course that God has laid out for them in wisdom and strength.
John and Lisa Bevere, founders of Messenger International and bestselling authors
This is my mum. She is the most extraordinary person I know. If she were president of Earth, Earth would look a whole lot more like the kingdom of heaven. If anyone has anything to say about journey and process, it is my mum. She emits the way of Jesus like no one I know. (No offense, Dad.) But you would only be moving closer to Jesus to read this book.
Joel Houston, songwriter and worship leader, Hillsong UNITED
We all need someone encouraging us who is just a little ahead on the journey, and my dear friend Bobbie will be that someone for you. I have been friends with Bobbie for over twenty years and have watched her live out her faith with such genuineness. Step-by-step she has been faithful to walk the leadership path she has been entrusted with. In Stay the Path, using her friendly yet poetic communication style, she describes challenges and victories, and at the same time gives us the practical how-to we all need as we walk the journey God has trusted us with. This is an inspirational as well as practical leadership guide. You might just need to get one for a friend too!
Holly Wagner, pastor of Oasis Church and author of Find Your Brave
In a generation that has elevated fame over faithfulness and temporary accolade over eternal treasure,