Kenny Luck - Risk: Are You Willing to Trust God with Everything?

Praise for
Risk

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: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

Shocking are the Scriptures stories of men that 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!

DR . W AYNE C ORDEIRO , senior pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship Oahu and author of Doing Church as a Team and Culture Shift

Risk is a book for men. It challenges us to faith, courage, and commitment. Kenny Luck tells the inspiring stories of men who risked everything to follow God. Dont miss this exciting and riveting challenge. It will stir your soul to action.

DR . J ERRY F ALWELL , Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia

Risk is a must-read for any man seeking significant change in his life. This book has great depth and momentum. Kenny Luck clearly communicates the message of what it means to completely sell out to God. Thank you Kenny. I pray that all men everywhere will take the risk and trust God for everything.

DAVEY B UHL , director of mens ministry at Christ Church at Grove Farm

I always want to know if the author of a book exemplifies what he has written. Kenny Luck certainly does! He has taken the risk to leave what seemed more comfortable and secure in order to follow Gods call in his life. Risk: Are You Willing to Trust God for Everything? invites men everywhere to do the same. It is a book that is not afraid to confront the realities, to challenge the heart, and to celebrate the joy that are a part of the risk of faith.

TOM H OLLADAY , teaching pastor at Saddleback Church and author of Foundations: 11 Core Truths to Build Your Life On

Risk is my kind of book, and Kenny Luck is my kind of guy. Jesus lived risking everything, and this book inspires you and me to live like Jesus lived and to do what Jesus did. Warning: Risk is for the courageous, not cowards. Be bold! Buy Risk! Live it!

W ALT K ALLESTAD , author of Entrepreneurial Faith; A Passionate Life; The Passionate Church; and Turn Your Church Inside Out; and senior pastor of Community Church of Joy in Glendale, Arizona

Kenny brings a fresh challenge to every Christian man by stepping up and accepting the risks of speaking out for God. As a pastor, I get the joy of seeing how this message lives out weekly through our men at Saddleback Church. Its not theory, but real! Kennys passion and calling is making a difference!

DOUG S LAYBAUGH , president of Purpose Driven

Risk challenges the heart of the many issues that men are dealing with today. Kenny has done a thorough job of meeting men where they are and giving us a game plan to be men of God. I highly recommend that all men read Risk and allow the encouragements to saturate their lives.

G REG S URRATT , senior pastor of Seacoast Church

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Copyright 2006 by Kenny Luck

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Luck, Kenneth L., 1964

Risk : are you willing to trust God with everything? / Kenny Luck. 1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-55083-5
1. Trust in God. 2. Faith. 3. Christian life. 4. Risk. I. Title.
BV4637.L83 2006
248.842dc22

2006005748

v3.1_r3

This book is dedicated to my brothers around the world who are being persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ. These are the men the world may never know and the same men of whom the world is not worthy. We suffer with you, my brothers, remember you, and seek your deliverance. You are our inspiration and example.

I would like to express my deep gratitude to a few sets of people who risk taking chances on a goofball like me, beginning with my pastor, Rick Warren. Thank you for trusting me to care for the men of Saddleback and providing me with an example of one who risks greatly for the kingdom. It is an honor to follow you into battle. Few pastors lead with such integrity and transparency. I know I speak for millions around the globe whose lives have been changed because you continue to seek the Lord and never settle for less than the global glory of God.

To the Herd, the men of Saddleback: Thank you for your dedication to being Gods men and adventuring with me as God calls us to lead personally, locally, and globally. You never fail to inspire me by how far you are taking your faith. Never stop.

I would also like to acknowledge and thank Danny Wallen and Tom Chapin at Every Man Ministries who refuse to let me plateau as a leader and who have the courage and commitment to stretch me (however painfully) so that I can lead out of character. Thank you for pushing me to take the greatest risk of allnot settling as a man and seeking more of Christs character with each step of my journey.

On the writing side I would like to thank my mentor and coach, Mike Yorkey, whose hand in my development will be felt in every work I will ever have the privilege to write. Steve Arterburn and Fred Stoeker deserve equal credit for their dedication and influence in my journey. And to the team at WaterBrook Press who sat with me and listened to the vision for this series of books and had the guts to risk adventuring with me. Specifically, I need to thank Don Pape, Steve Cobb, Ginia Hairston, Dudley Delffs, Bruce Nygren, and Mick Silva for their help and support. I am very fortunate to serve the Lord with all of you.