Kenny Luck - Soar: Are You Ready to Accept Gods Power?

Praise for
Soar

Soar offers a timely word for men looking to develop spiritual depth. I strongly encourage men everywhere to allow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, as outlined in this material, to lead them into a powerful, more meaningful relationship in Christ.

B ISHOP T. D. J AKES , founder and senior pastor, The Potters House, Dallas

In Soar, Kenny Luck tackles one of the greatest topics I believe the church needs to hear: the value of being surrendered fully to the lordship of Jesus Christ and to the leading of the Holy Spirit. It is only in living a life fully submitted and committed to God that we can be the reflection of His love and grace to others. And thats huge. I love this quote from Soar: The Holy Spirit is in you to change the way you think about everything. I pray you will let God use this book to start making some of those changes.

D INO R IZZO , lead pastor, Healing Place Church, Baton Rouge, LA, and author of Servolution

Anytime you can get you can get your hands on a Kenny Luck book youre in for challenge and change. Soar, the latest addition to Kennys series of masculine, streetwise theology, is no different. Its bold, unvarnished truth about the amazing person and work of the Holy Spirit. Soar gives a fresh perspective on how to understand and assess your relationship and connectedness to the Spirit so you really can enjoy your identity, legacy, and destiny in Christ.

D AVE B ROWN , director and pastor-at-large, Washington (DC) Area Coalition of Mens Ministries (WACMM)

Praise for Other Books in the Gods Man Series

Risk

Understanding the significance of the Christian message is of such great importance, there cannot be too many ways to bring it to our attention. Risk is certain to inspire readers who long to give their all to a mighty cause but who might miss the message if it were presented in a less passionate way.

K EN B LANCHARD , co-author of The One Minute Manager and The Secret

Shocking are Scriptures stories of men who took risks! So are the modern-day accounts of men changing the world for God by taking risks. And then theres you Are you risking it? This is a mans book for menmen of God ready to rip into the ends of the age. Dive into Risk

D R . W AYNE C ORDEIRO , senior pastor, New Hope Christian Fellowship, Oahu, HI, and author of Leading on Empty and Divine Mentor

Ive always been an adrenaline junkie, so Risk instantly appealed to me. This book goes beyond the interesting and engaging descriptive stories to provide much-needed prescriptive insight to enable men to live more boldly and powerfully. If youre up for being challenged in significant ways, read this book.

M ARK S ANBORN , president of Sanborn and Associates Inc. and author of The Fred Factor and You Dont Need a Title to be a Leader

Fight

I felt like I was reading a Tom Clancy book on spiritual warfare. An enjoyable read on a deadly serious subject. You wont be disappointed.

D AVID M URROW , author of Why Men Hate Going to Church and The Map

I always want to know if the author of a book exemplifies what he has written. Kenny Luck certainly does!

T OM H OLLADAY , teaching pastor, Saddleback Church and author of The Relationship Principles of Jesus

Its been said that all evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing. Kenny excels at showing the bigger story were engaged in. Fight is a must-read for men to defeat the enemy where each of us livein our marriages, our families, and all our spheres of influence.

J IM W EIDMANN , The Family Night Guy, executive director of Heritage Builders, and author of the Family Night Tool Chest series

S OAR
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All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (MSG) are taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (NASB) are taken from the New American Standard Bible. Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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Copyright 2010 by Kenny Luck

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Luck, Kenneth L., 1964
Soar / Kenny Luck. 1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-44664-0
1. Christian menReligious life. I. Title.
BV4528.2.L86 2010
248.842dc22

2010024535

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This book is dedicated to my brothers and sisters standing bravely for Christbefore their persecutors by the power of the Holy SpiritYou are soaring in the midst.

Dr. Rick Warren, Dr. Bill Bright, Dr. Robert Morris, Dr. Kevin Springer, and so many others for blowing my mind with your learning posture, mentoring friendship, and commitment to the next spiritual revolution among men.

Hell on earth would be to meet the person you could have become.

K EN B LANCHARD

Dont fight me!

The firm and calm rebuke came from Gary, a flight instructor with twenty-nine years of glider experience. Sailing along at four thousand feet above the ground over Californias central coast, only moments beforeafter I had released the tow cable and Gary had trimmed us outhe asked, Do you want to take the stick?

Yeah! I yelled, almost bursting Garys eardrum, and eagerly grabbed the stick with my whole hand. Unknown to me, Gary gripped his chicken stick, which is the second flight control stick used by the instructor in case an overeager and undertrained novice forgets that flying gliders is not his day job.