A major trap when coaching clients in their life purpose is thinking that there is one right destination as well as one right route to get to it. Many clients believe there is only one…
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When coaching a client who knows their calling, there is still the question of how to walk it out. For some, following the call is like tiptoeing through a minefield. One false step and it’s…
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In working with Christian coaching clients, there is a special life message that’s a summary of their story—the place where their various life messages join together in one theme. What one message does Jesus speak…
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How does God reveal our destiny to us? Most life purpose models have us look inside, at our passion, design and life experience, and say, “What am I passionate about doing? What fits me? What…
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A key insight we get from studying Jesus’ life purpose is that the story doesn’t end with this life. Jesus’ ultimate destiny is for God to put all things under his authority, and to finally…
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I’ve always been sort of intrigued by the list of lives of the faithful in Hebrews 11. Paul talks about those who through faith conquered kingdoms, stopped the mouth of lions, escaped the sword, or…
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Coaching focuses on helping people become what they were born to be. Christianity has a unique perspective on destiny that is both personal and corporate, sacrificial and fulfilling. Concentrating on personal happiness and ignoring sacrificial…
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For coaching demonstrations, I’ll often ask for an audience member to share an unrealized dream as a coaching issue. Once after a lengthy wait for a volunteer in a pastor’s group, one man shared a…
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For a variety of reasons, an individual’s calling seems to be the least understood and tapped facet of life purpose. I define calling as a commission coming from outside yourself, to serve something bigger than…
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A practical way to work with a Christian coaching client at their allegiance to Christ is to invite them to structure their lives for eternal rewards. In other words, figure out what God rewards, and…
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There are many different ways to structure discovering and pursuing one’s life purpose. I have organized the search with a model called the Seven Life Purpose Questions. By organizing around these seven themes, we can…
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One of the beauties of Christianity is that the important things are pretty simple. The on-purpose Christian life simply reflects God’s purposes: to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and to…
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In Ephesians 1 Paul discusses our destiny: we were chosen “before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before him” and that we are predestined for adoption as sons. The…
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There are a lot of similar terms floating around in life coaching circles, and we aren’t always clear on what each one means. From my work is life coaching, I have found the following list…
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Making Life Messages is one of the more unilateral things God does. He decides where he is going to meet us, he creates or leverages the circumstances that get our attention and motivates us to engage him at the heart level. When we do engage him, it is Jesus that invades and transforms our hearts, too. Our job consists of two things: recognizing where he is already at work and choosing to go there with him.
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