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Given his unique rise to the top of two different sports NFL Football and NASCAR racing, Coach Gibbs is often asked to speak and share his personal testimony with crowds. Men especially want to know what it takes to be “successful” and “relevant.” The Game Plan helps men to find true success and relevance in their own lives. However, it is less about Joe, than it is about who men are, why they were created and what they can really do with their lives.
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From Coach Gibbs:
“When we wanted an expert on living a life of purpose, Tony Evans was our man. Although he is a scholar and has written a lot of material on a lot of topics, in person he’s hilarious and great to be with–a real man’s man. He is living a life of purpose. Tony has the gift of speaking profound truths simply and clearly so that the ‘Average Joe’ can understand and act on them.”
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Tony Evans is co-founder and senior pastor of the over 8,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas and is a strong advocate for rebuilding communities and racial reconciliation. Many prominent politicians–Republicans and Democrats–in Texas and the United States support his initiatives. Dr. Evans also serves as president of The Urban Alternative, an organization which seeks to bring about spiritual renewal in America through the church. His daily radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 600 stations daily throughout the United States and in more than 40 countries. His TV broadcasts can also be seen on several television networks. A dynamic speaker, Dr. Evans regularly appears at crusades and bible conferences in the United States and abroad. Dr. Evans has written nearly 30 books, including The Kingdom Agenda and A Whole New You.
The first African-American to graduate with a doctoral degree from Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS), he served as an associate professor in the DTS Pastoral Ministries Department in the areas of evangelism, homiletics and black church studies. He continues to serve DTS on the Board of Incorporate Members.
Formerly the chaplain for the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, Dr. Evans presently serves as chaplain for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. He is a board member of the National Religious Broadcasters and the Urban Evangelical Mission, a national evangelistic and church-planting organization. He previously served as an associate evangelist with the Grand Old Gospel Fellowship in Philadelphia.
He and his wife, Lois, have four children and six grandchildren. He was named Father of the Year in Dallas in 1989.
From Coach Gibbs:
“Randy Alcorn was the first guy to join the Game Plan for Life project with us. As a coach, it is important to know where you are going in a game. For men, when the game is over and we die, we’re going to one of two places: heaven or hell. Randy’s groundbreaking work on heaven helps paint a clear picture for us. His love for clear and edifying communication has really served us well. Of course, I really don’t know if he’d have joined our team if his wife, Nanci, wasn’t a football fanatic!”
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Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM). He served fourteen years as a pastor. Randy has spoken around the world and has taught on the adjunct faculties of Multnomah Bible College and Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.
Randy is the best-selling author of thirty books, including the novels Deadline, Dominion, andDeception, as well as Safely Home, winner of the ECPA Novel of the Year.
His nonfiction works include Money, Possessions and Eternity, ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments, In Light of Eternity, The Treasure Principle (over one million sold), The Grace & Truth Paradox, The Purity Principle, The Law of Rewards, and Why ProLife?
Randy’s books on the subject of heaven includeHeaven (over a half million sold), 50 Days of Heaven(meditations on Heaven), TouchPoints: Heaven andHeaven for Kids. He has also written two illustrated children’s books, Tell Me About Heaven and Wait Until Then.
Randy has written for many magazines and produces the popular periodical Eternal Perspectives available at www.epm.org. He’s been a guest on over 500 radio and television programs including Focus on the Family, The Bible Answer Man, and FamilyLife Today. His blog can be read atwww.randyalcorn.blogspot.com.
The father of two married daughters, Karina and Angela, Randy lives in Gresham, Oregon, with his wife and best friend, Nanci. They are the proud grandparents of four boys, Jacob, Matthew, Tyler and Jack. Randy enjoys hanging out with his family, biking, playing and coaching tennis, research and reading.
From Coach Gibbs:
“Our research showed that men are really concerned about their health and my challenge was to find a fully qualified medical doctor who could blend the technical science of medicine with the practical wisdom of the Bible. Walt fit the bill perfectly. His focus on the four spokes of health–physical, spiritual, relational and mental–is a great perspective on the complete health of a person.”
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Dr. Larimore is one of America’s best-known family physicians. His MD degree is from Louisiana State University and his Family Medicine residency was at Duke.
Dr. Larimore practiced in the Smoky Mountains before moving to Central Florida to practice for 16 years. He served as the President of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians and in 1996 was named America’s Outstanding Family Medicine Educator by the American Academy of Family Physicians. In 2000, Dr. and Mrs. Larimore were named Educators of the Year by the Christian Medical Association.
Dr. Larimore, while continuing to practice, is now also an author, educator, and medical journalist. He serves on the adjunct family medicine faculty of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Larimore hosted over 850 episodes of the daily, live Ask the Family Doctorshow on Fox’s Health Network–being awarded the prestigious “Gracie” Award by the American Women in Radio and Television. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Larimore hosted the Focus on Your Family’s Health syndicated radio and TV features.
Dr. Larimore is a frequent guest on a wide variety of television and radio programs and has appeared on The Today Show, CBS’s Morning Show, several Fox News programs and CNN. He currently provides frequent medical commentary for radio stations in Chicago, Orlando, Baltimore, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Tampa, Albuquerque, and Ft. Wayne.
He has published eighteen books and over 600 articles in dozens of medical, lay, and Internet publications. His best-selling books include Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor’s Practice in the Smoky Mountains and Alternative Medicine: The Christian Handbook. His most recent book, co-written with his wife, Barb, is His Brain, Her Brain: How Divinely Designed Differences can Strengthen Your Marriage.
Dr. Larimore and his childhood sweetheart, Barb, have been married over 30 years, have two grown children who are wonderful young adults, and a “grandcat” named Julius.
From Coach Gibbs:
“Os Guinness has a deep sense of the great calling men have on their lives. We wanted his contribution to the Game Plan for Life project to be on vocation and careers. This topic is important to most ambitious men, but Os helps us see that in the end, we are accountable in life to an audience of one–God. I think the fact that he grew up in China and England helps him be objective when speaking to American men and I’m thankful for his voice in this project.”
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Os Guinness is an author and social critic who lives in the Washington DC area. Great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil. in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford.
Os has written or edited more than twenty five books, including The American Hour, Time for Truth, The Call, Invitation to the Classics, Long Journey Home, and Unspeakable: Facing up to the Challenge of Evil. His latest book is The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It. Previously, Os was a freelance reporter with the BBC.
Since coming to the United States in 1984, he has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1986 to 1989, Os served as Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a bicentennial celebration of the First Amendment. In this position he helped to draft the Williamsburg Charter and co-authored the public school curriculum Living With Our Deepest Differences. From 1991 to 2004 he was a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in both the United States and Europe.
He lives with his wife Jenny in McLean, Virginia.
