"You can buy The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision online at any major online bookstore, or through the Westbow website." We live in a country deeply divided politically and culturally, and the chasm widens and deepens with each passing day. As a society, it seems like there is an increasing tendency to follow the wrong things and the wrong people. So where do we turn to find a leadership example in an “all about me” world? How do you live and lead a narrow-path (yet not narrow-minded) life in a wide-path world and society? You turn to the greatest leadership example in history: Jesus Christ. This may seem like an obvious answer, but it is not. In conducting original research for the book The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision, RD (Randy) Oostra completed a national online survey of business leaders, including those who identified as Christian leaders. One question on the survey asked those who identified as Christian leaders to name their top three leaders of all time. Only 13 percent mentioned Christ as one of their top three leaders. In addition, only 43 percent of these Christian leaders considered themselves to be servant leaders. As The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision unfolds, it weaves a narrative of Randy’s personal journey growing up in a rigorous Dutch Reformation background to his life as a CEO of a national health and well-being organization. Randy tells his story of how he has lived in and navigated through the science-based world of health care, as well as his frustrations with a Church leadership that frankly has not always been helpful in meeting the challenges he faced as a business leader, and in life in general. Based on these experiences, Randy offers a foundational approach to leadership inspired by the example of Christ. It is a hopeful message that both believers and non-believers will find meaningful and useful.

Life is a jumble of disconnected events that sometimes defy reasonable explanation. Donna Noble takes the holy Word of God and marries it to her life experiences, education, and study of the Scriptures to try to help others make sense of the things that happen in our lives. Share her walk in the form of a daily reflection that will point out the sometimes obvious things we miss in our hurried lives these days, how the Lord reaches out to us and tries to get our attention, reviewing our own salvation and progress in the difficult process of sanctification, and gives a prayer to send us out into our day with something to reflect on. Come and join the journey as we all try to make sense of this crazy event we call life.

The 40-Day journey to finding grace and unconditional love will help readers grow spiritually. Being spiritually disciplined allows for healthy relationships with all aspects of life. The deep healing from the inside-out is found by cultivating the seed of love within our hearts and allowing that seed to bloom in and through the body. Essentially, healing comes from doing the one thing our Creator asked us to do - LOVE.

This book is about some of the things the Lord sent me through to become who I am today. I pray that it affects everyone the way the Lord intends it too. And I must speak about the children and the paths one day theyll take. Because it will determine their future so think hard about the decisions that you make.

How to Travel Down the Narrow Road That Leads to Heaven The narrow road that leads to heaven is very difficult to travel. You must work hard to drive up this bumpy road and avoid running out of faith or making a wrong turn. The road to hell is wide and smooth and easy to travel down. It does not require faith, and although you may take a right or left turn at one of the intersections, all roads lead to the same place of unending torment. The purpose of this book is to give you clear directions and a biblical map you can follow to get to heaven. There are fourteen stops along the way, starting with turning away from sin and turning toward God and ending with obeying the traffic laws of life that Jesus taught. All the stops in between give you the encouragement and knowledge you need to stay on track for a successful journey. These include receiving the gift of salvation and eternal life, developing a relationship with the Holy Spirit, having faith to follow Jesus, serving and loving God and your neighbor, digging deep into God's Word, giving generously, praying continually, getting ready for the end times, and living like Christ. Once you arrive at your final destination, there is no turning back. So take time to look over the directions carefully, study the map, and read the Scriptures written on the road signs posted all along the way.

'This is Rich Villodas at his pastoral best. His writing shimmers with grace, reflecting the radiance of a kingdom vision of the good life.' -GLENN PACKIAM 'This book is a much-needed heart checkup for every Jesus follower.' -CHRISTINE CAINE 'A book for all who are interested, intrigued, and deeply drawn to the possibility of Jesus and his narrow way.' -JOHN MARK COMER 'In The Narrow Path, Rich is telling a biography of Jesus - the Divine One who not only clears the way, teaches the way, and shows the way, but is the Way. The path is narrow because it is only as wide as the person of Christ. But it is big enough for everyone's unique journey of life because he is the saviour of all.' -JUSTIN WELBY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY We live in a culture that wants it all. More is seen as better - whether it's more money, social media fame, more choices, or power. For those chasing this way of life, 'narrow' seems negative. Who wants to narrow their options, or be seen as narrow-minded? Which is why the most well-known talk in history - the Sermon on the Mount - is also the most paradoxical. In it, Jesus holds up the narrow path as the most spacious ... and the broader path as the more confining one. Rich Villodas, bestselling author of The Deeply Formed Life, helps us to diagnose whether we are following the broad or narrow path, in order to help us pursue the way of Jesus more deeply. The Narrow Path reintroduces the counterintuitive wonder of Jesus's timeless wisdom for this age, one fraught with anxiety, depression, polarizing politics, and online vitriol. The path of Jesus is most certainly narrow, but it is the only one filled with the ever-expanding life of God . . . and it is available now for all who want it!

Jeff Lawson is a young man who is confident and sure of what he wants in life until he meets Lisa Byers. Lisa Byers is a young woman who has recently moved away from her family in Clearwater, Florida, to help take care of a deceased Aunt's estate. She meets Jeff in her English class at the Upstate Technical College in Greenville, South Carolina. From his first encounter with Lisa, Jeff's life will never be the same. Jeff is big into the party scene until Lisa helps him realize that God is offering him a better life. Jeff soon discovers that the Christian walk is not always an easy one. Shortly after his conversion, Jeff finds himself in jail for a crime he did not commit. Find out how Lisa helps unravel the mystery that will allow God's ultimate good to triumph. I was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1962. I lived in a rural section in the McHenry, Illinois area until 1979, when my family moved to Dunedin, Florida. There I met my husband and was married in August of 1981. I lived in Florida for almost ten years until my husband and I relocated our family to Greer, SC, in 1988. This has been our home for the past 21 years. We have four children and four grandchildren. My life's goal is to glorify God and teach His Word to the lost until Christ returns or until my time on this earth has ended. I understand that without God being the center of my life, all my other accomplishments are meaningless.

Sounding the trumpet of God as a prophetic warning! The Christian church has become lukewarm. God is calling his people to repent and turn from their wicked ways, then Jesus will hear from heaven and heal their land. Jesus will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and turn the hearts of the children to the fathers. The time is now to have a spiritual awakening. It's time to examine ourselves and ask Jesus to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Not to just forgive our sins, but to deliver us from our sins. There are many Christians that are in bondage to many temptations from the devil. The good news is that there is power available to every child of God to break those chains that hold them captive to Satan. The power of God is in his word. My book will lead the reader to experience a new freedom in Christ and to stay on the narrow path that Jesus said few will find.

May the Grace of God and of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with us all, as we all journey into the Narrow Path. May the Glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ be preached throughout all the earth. And may we all meet and see each other in Heaven! In Christ Always. Amen.