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About One Month to Live

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“If you want new urgency, fresh purpose, and a sharper focus for your life, then this book is for you. Read it and your future may be changed forever!”
—Lee Strobel, best-selling author of The Case for Christ and The Case for the Real Jesus

Are you suffering from “someday” syndrome—always waiting for someday when your schedule calms down, your finances improve, or your kids grow up so you can begin to live the life you’ve always dreamed of?

What if you learned you had just one month to live? Without a doubt, you’d stop living on autopilot and determine to make the most of every moment.

You don’t have any time to waste.

Why wait to answer the longings of your heart? In One Month to Live, Kerry and Chris Shook show you how to stop waiting for “someday” and start now to make each day really matter. With contagious enthusiasm and practical insights, you’ll learn how to apply the four universal principles of a no-regrets life:

LIVE PASSIONATELY, living each day as if it were your last.
LOVE COMPLETELY, showing others love that transcends and transforms.
LEARN HUMBLY, growing through your problems and pain.
LEAVE BOLDLY, creating a legacy that will impact generations.

Each of the thirty chapters—one per day in a life-changing month—offers fresh strategies and tools to experience revitalizing change in core areas of your life. Uplifting true-life stories and thought-provoking questions will inspire you to squeeze all you can out of each day you’ve been given.

Stop wasting precious time. Start living today as God created you to live—passionate, fully alive, without regrets.

Praise

Praise for One Month to Live

“So many of us waste our lives with ‘when and then’ thinking, believing that ‘when’ this or that happens, ‘then’ we will really start living and do something for God that really matters. That approach is guaranteed to leave you with regrets. At the end of your life, the only thing that will matter is whether you accomplished God’s purpose for your life. Jesus was just 12 when he said, ‘I must be about My Father’s business.’ Barely 20 years later, he could say to the Father, ‘I have completed the work you gave me to do.’ If we all had that kind of focus and concentration in our lives, there’s no telling what God could accomplish in the world! Kerry and Chris Shook want you to grasp that amazing insight: Embracing your mortality sets you free to live a meaningful and significant life without regret. One Month to Live is a great way to discover the purposeful, joyful, abundant life God created you to enjoy!”
Rick Warren, founding pastor, Saddleback Church, and author of international bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life

“Kerry Shook is a friend, devoted father, supportive husband, and inspiring pastor. As one of today’s most gifted communicators, Kerry’s unique and creative style enables him to take the most complex issues and make them practical and relevant to daily living. He has a genuine love for people that is contagious. His ministry is changing the lives of individuals and families here in Houston and transforming communities all across the nation.”
Joel Osteen, pastor of Lakewood Church and bestselling author of Your Best Life Now

“Too many people live with regrets, missed opportunities, and dormant dreams. You don’t have to be one of them. Your life will be different if you apply the transformational principles in Kerry and Chris Shook’s One Month to Live.”
—Craig Groeschel, Founding Pastor of Lifechurch

“If you want new urgency, fresh purpose, and a sharper focus for your life, then this book is for you. Read it and your future may be changed forever!”
Lee Strobel, author of The Case for Christ

“One Month to Live by Kerry and Chris Shook will add value to the life of every person who reads it. The questions asked and the ‘Make It Count Moments’ in this book will stir your soul and inspire you to begin, today, to make the rest of your life more meaningful. What Kerry and Chris present in One Month to Live could be life altering.”
Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager

“Through the ups and downs, routines and regimens of our daily existence, we can become complacent, even bored, with life. But God never meant for life to be boring. And in One Month to Live, Kerry and Chris Shook remind us of the true depth and meaning that God has in store for each of our lives. No matter where you are in your walk with God, this book will reveal to you a fresh and much-needed perspective. And at the end of this thirty-day journey, you will discover exactly what it means to truly live—daily…creatively…passionately!”
Ed Young, Senior and Founding Pastor of Fellowship Church


About Kerry Shook

Kerry Shook is one of today’s most gifted communicators, offering a clear, contemporary, and creative teaching style. He is the senior pastor of Woodlands Church, one of the fastest-growing churches in America. Kerry and his wife, Chris, founded Woodlands Church, formerly Fellowship of The Woodlands, in 1993; and since then the church has grown to 17,000 in average attendance each weekend. Woodlands Church is now one church in many locations with three campuses in the greater Houston area and thousands joining for church online every weekend. Kerry believes that church should be engaging and fun, calling it “The Best Hour of Your Week.” He strives to eliminate the barriers of boredom, unfriendliness, and fear that keep people from experiencing not just religion but a relationship with Jesus Christ. His messages are relevant, and his illustrations memorable.

About Chris Shook

Chris Shook, along with her husband, Kerry, founded Woodlands Church outside of Houston, Texas, in 1993. Since then the multicampus church has grown to an attendance of more than 18,000 people and is recognized for its ministries to the poor and powerless. Woodlands Church also has one of the largest fair-trade/direct-trade stores in the country, with the goal of lifting generations out of poverty by empowering their lives with hope. Thousands of people in more than two hundred countries tune in weekly to Pastor Kerry's televised broadcasts. The Shooks' first book, One Month to Live, is a New York Times bestseller. Kerry and Chris have been married for more than thirty years and have four grown children.

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Product Details

256 pages | Published by WaterBrook

On Sale Date: Feb 21, 2012

Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4

Carton Quantity: 24

Sneak Peek

Read the first chapter of One Month to Live, 10th Anniversary Edition. CBA BESTSELLER! Are you suffering from “someday” syndrome—always waiting for someday when your schedule calms down, your finances improve, or your kids grow up so you can begin to live the life you’ve always dreamed of? What if you learned you had just one month to live? Without a doubt, you’d stop living on autopilot and determine to make the most of every moment. You don’t have any time to waste. Why wait to answer the longings of your heart? In One Month to Live, Kerry and Chris Shook show you how to stop waiting for “someday” and start now to make each day really matter. With contagious enthusiasm and practical insights, you’ll learn how to apply the four universal principles of a no-regrets life: LIVE PASSIONATELY, living each day as if it were your last. LOVE COMPLETELY, showing others love that transcends and transforms. LEARN HUMBLY, growing through your problems and pain. LEAVE BOLDLY, creating a legacy that will impact generations. Each of the thirty chapters—one per day in a life-changing month—offers fresh strategies and tools to experience revitalizing change in core areas of your life. Uplifting true-life stories and thought-provoking questions will inspire you to squeeze all you can out of each day you’ve been given. Stop wasting precious time. Start living today as God created you to live—passionate, fully alive, without regrets.

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chelsea Woodward, Associate Publicist
cwoodward@penguinrandomhouse.com

NYT Best Seller One Month to Live Celebrates 10 Years with Anniversary Edition
 
“If you want new urgency, fresh purpose, and a sharper focus for your life, then this book is for you. Read it and your future may be changed forever!”—Lee Strobel, author of The Case for Christ

If you only had one month to live, what would you change? Kerry Shook and his wife Chris Shook, founders of Woodlands Church in Texas, revisit this life-changing question in their 10th Anniversary Edition of ONE MONTH TO LIVE: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life (8/7/18, WaterBrook).
 
With its first publication in 2008, One Month to Live became a national phenomenon with 7,000 churches as well as several small towns taking the One-Month-to-Live Challenge. Since then, it has sold nearly 500,000 copies.  
 
The anniversary edition includes a new note from the authors reflecting on the last 10 years. They write, “When we wrote One Month to Live ten years ago, we had no idea that God would use it to impact hundreds of thousands of people to live more intentional lives. All we knew was that God had put on our hearts a question that forever changed our lives.”
 
One Month to Live carries the authors’ vital message to which they are devoted—“how to experience life to the fullest by living passionately and purposefully, the way we were created to live.” Kerry and Chris Shook encourage readers to embrace the fact that their time on earth is limited, to break out of their “someday syndrome,” and to begin living more deliberately.
 
Designed to guide readers through living their next 30 days as if they are their last, the book shares four main principles for leading a no-regrets life that are then broken down into daily readings:
· Live passionately
· Love completely
· Learn humbly
· Leave boldly
 
This September, Woodlands Church will be encouraging their 18,000 weekly attendees to live out these four principles as they hold a church-wide One-Month-to-Live Challenge.

Both new and seasoned participants of the One-Month-to-Live Challenge will experience a powerful calling on their lives to embark on an incredible adventure of discovery, joy and purposeful contentment, remembering that time—because it is limited—is our most precious commodity.
 
For more information, visit www.waterbrookmultnomah.com.
                                 
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Kerry Shook and his wife, Chris Shook, founded Fellowship of The Woodlands in The Woodlands, Texas, in 1993. Since then the church has grown to three locations with a weekly attendance of more than 18,000. Fellowship of The Woodlands is counted among the fastest-growing churches in America. Kerry Shook and his church have been featured on Fox News, NBC, and PBS, and thousands around the world tune in weekly to Pastor Kerry's televised broadcasts to hear his message of hope and encouragement.
 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kerryshook
Twitter: @KerryShook and @ChristineShook
Instagram: @kerry_shook and @chris_shook1
 
PRAISE FOR ONE MONTH TO LIVE
“Too many people live with regrets, missed opportunities, and dormant dreams. You don’t have to be one of them. Your life will be different if you apply the transformational principles in Kerry and Chris Shook’s One Month to Live.”
—CRAIG GROESCHEL, Founding Pastor of Lifechurch

“One Month to Live by Kerry and Chris Shook will add value to the life of every person who reads it. The questions asked and the ‘Make It Count Moments’ in this book will stir your soul and inspire you to begin, today, to make the rest of your life more meaningful. What Kerry and Chris present in One Month to Live could be life altering.”
—KEN BLANCHARD, author of The One Minute Manager

“Through the ups and downs, routines and regimens of our daily existence, we can become complacent, even bored, with life. But God never meant for life to be boring. And in One Month to Live, Kerry and Chris Shook remind us of the true depth and meaning that God has in store for each of our lives. No matter where you are in your walk with God, this book will reveal to you a fresh and much-needed perspective. And at the end of this thirty-day journey, you will discover exactly what it means to truly live—daily…creatively…passionately!”|
—ED YOUNG, Senior and Founding Pastor of Fellowship Church

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