This week on Amish Wisdom: Missy Buchanan and Brian Goins

Don't miss this week's show. I'll be talking with Missy Buchanan about . Her book Don't Write My Obituary Just Yet: Inspiring Faith Stories for Older Adults, is a great help for the aging and to those learning to care for their aged parents and or friends. Then later in the show, we'll chat with Family Life speaker and pastor, Brian Goins. His new book, Playing Hurt deals with how men (and women) need to push through the pain to victory in marriage. When the going gets tough it's easy to quit, but Brian makes a compelling and Biblical case for sticking it out. Highly recommended.

More about Missy: Buchanan is the author of Talking with God in Old Age and Living with Purpose in a Worn-Out Body: Spiritual Encouragement for Older Adults (Upper Room Books).  Don’t Write My Obituary Just Yet was released in March 2011, and Aging Faithfully: 28 Days of Prayer was released in May 2011.  She writes a monthly column, “Aging Well,” for the United Methodist Reporter and she hosts Aging and Faith with Missy Buchanan on BlogTalk Radio.  She has also written for many publications including Mature Years, Mature Living, Presbyterians Today, Christian Association Serving Adults Ministries, Entrepreneur, The Dallas Morning News, and Good Morning America’s spirituality page.  In December 2010, she appeared on Good Morning America with Robin Roberts and Roberts’ 86-year-old mother in a segment about aging and faith.  (Visit www.missybuchanan.com for a link to the interview.)

A sought-after speaker on topics of older adult ministry and spiritual creativity, Buchanan brings passion and humor to many events for churches, organizations, and women’s groups.  She recently toured the East Coast, speaking to a variety of churches and senior resident centers.

A native Texan and former creativity educator, Buchanan loves spending time with her family, including her husband, Barry, their three grown children/spouses, and her two grandchildren.  Buchanan and her husband reside in Rockwall, TX.

More about Don't Write My Obituary Just Yet: Inspiring Faith Stories for Older Adults: Time after time, mature adults pick up a book by Missy Buchanan and find themselves reading stores that reflect their lives and situations.  Each time the stores, poems and prayers move the reader through a myriad of thoughts and feelings ranging from questioning and pain to relief and joy.  It is this emotional connection that will draw in readers of Don't Write My Obituary Just Yet.

Buchanan offers a glimpse into the lives of active, giving, and prayerful older adults who are seventy, eighty, ninety, and even one hundred years od.  Readers explore what it means to develop a deep attitude of gracious acceptance of the life God has given them.  And with each account, Buchanan relates what it means to live out a life that has a strong spiritual foundation.

Each of the 30 stories provides more than just wisdom to the reader; it inspires the reader to find a way to overcome struggles and sorrows and to live with passion and hope for something more.  Young and old alike will undoubtedly find value in this book as they continue to live out their own life story.

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More about Brian: Since the NBA never drafted him, Brian decided to go into full-time pastoral ministry.Brian and his bride of 15 years, Jennifer, set up shop in Charlotte NC with their three kids (Brantley, Palmer, and Gibson). He, along with a great team, started and serves as pastor at Renaissance Bible Church. Brian bleeds Tarheel blue, remembers when he played full court basketball, wishes he was a carpenter, and wants to figure out how to live in Montana six months out of the year.

Brian and Jennifer travel around the country speaking to couples at “Weekend to Remember” events for Family Life. He received his Masters of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary and worked as Creative Director for Insight for Living before going into church ministry. He's written for a number of Christian leaders including Chuck Swindoll, Chip Ingram, and Tommy Nelson.

Brian will be featured on Family Life Today in August of 2011. He speaks at family camps, retreats, and churches around the country.

For more about Brian, visit www.playinghurt.org.

More about Playing Hurt: A marriage book that husbands will actually want to read!

Everyone admires people who play hurt, from the superstar athlete to the journeyman player who finishes the game even when hurt, sick, or falling apart. Everyone looks up to these athletes and wants to mimic their “never give up” attitude. Except when it comes to marriage. Most husbands are willing to take a bullet for their wives in a life-and-death situation; but when his bride fires the bullet--hurls an insult, disrespects him in public, ignores his foreplay in private--he’d rather throw in the towel than play through the pain.

Playing Hurt is a biblical playbook for marriage that speaks in the language most men understand—the language of sports. Using a sports analogy to explain the motivation, means, and methods of playing hurt, author Brian Goins shows men how to overcome the temptation to stay on the bench. Playing Hurt is more about inspiration than instruction. It’s about finding the motivation to stay in the game, despite the pain. It’s about becoming like the One who knew more about nails and thorns than any superstar athlete. Using Ephesians 5 as a biblical basis, this book will call husbands to be the heroes they long to be--men who play hurt in order to win at marriage.

For a chance to win a copy of Missy's and Brian's books, leave a comment on this page. Winner's will be announced next week via email. 

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  1. Patsy says: Both books sounds great! Would love to read them. plhouston(at)bellsouth(dot)net

    Posted on: 07-28-2011 @ 9:00 am EST
  2. apple blossom says: Oh, I'd love to win Don't Write My Obituary Just Yet. Thanks enjoyed the program ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com

    Posted on: 07-28-2011 @ 4:19 pm EST
  3. apple blossom says: Brian's interview was great too. Love to be included in this book giveaway also. thanks ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com

    Posted on: 07-28-2011 @ 4:58 pm EST
  4. apple blossom says: I just received Playing Hurt in the mail today so you won't need to put me in the drawing for this book thanks

    Posted on: 07-29-2011 @ 2:31 pm EST
  5. Melonie K. says: These sound wonderful - thanks for the opportunity. Playing Hurt sounds like a phenomenal resource for my husband. ravenwrites74 /at/ yahoo / dot/ com

    Posted on: 07-31-2011 @ 8:03 pm EST


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