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Finding the Finish Line: Navigating the Race of Life Through Faith and Fitness
Life is full of memorable events and challenges. From career decisions, relationship failures, and the drive for discernment, Finding the Finish Line provides you with powerful anecdotal analogies for living passionately dedicated to Christ. Coupling tangible experience with tenacity in faith, Finding the Finish Line intuitively illustrates how you can live authentically by your faith and values while striving to become the best version of you possible. Your life is a race worth running with resilient purpose and finishing with renewed vigor. This engaging book will help you do both!
92 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 29, 2017
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September 3, 2018
Through the BookCrash book review program, I received a copy of today's book, Finding the Finish Line: Navigating the Race of Life Through Faith and Fitness by Andrea Cladis. While the book has a long name, the book itself is a whopping 92 pages. While that seems short, the contents of the book are not short at all.
This book directs readers "to explore God's enduring grace, His mercy, and more specifically, how faith, fitness, friendship, and consistent affirmations of self-worth enhance our overall physical and spiritual health, contributing to the experiential purpose of our everyday lives". Wow, that's a seriously powerful mouthful huh? And that's just the preface of this book!
Finding the Finish Line starts with "Part I: Preparation for the Race". Cladis talks about waiting for His truth. She discusses the plan she had laid out for her own life - finding love, marriage, completing her master's degree, and more. Notably, getting closer to Christ wasn't included in the list. We may possibly achieve our ten year plan or we may not..... but if we made the plan of developing a deeper relationship with Christ the priority in our lives, it would free us from the pressures of all those plans.
"Part II: Running Your Race" talks about race day and running in Christ alone. I love the subheadings and Bible verses included in this section. "Part III: Racing Toward Christ" talks about putting one foot in front of the other and trusting that He will carry you. Again, the Bible verses and references included in this section are fantastic. Next is "Part IV: Facing the Finish" and it deals with our growth in failure. It discusses purpose, renewal and relationship with Christ. In my copy of the book (which may have been an advanced reader copy), the last section is also labeled "Part IV" but this one is "Part IV: Finishing Strong" and talks about perfection being a fallacy and that the race is the journey.
I won't reprint the whole book here - I will tell you that you should grab a copy of this book and keep it by your bedside. Read a little at a time, a paragraph, a page, or a chapter. You will be inspired. As I was flipping pages, I loved that I saw one of my favorite verses - Hebrews 6:19 - "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure, it enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain."
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher through the BookCrash book review program, which requires an honest, though not necessarily positive, review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s CFR Title 16, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
This book directs readers "to explore God's enduring grace, His mercy, and more specifically, how faith, fitness, friendship, and consistent affirmations of self-worth enhance our overall physical and spiritual health, contributing to the experiential purpose of our everyday lives". Wow, that's a seriously powerful mouthful huh? And that's just the preface of this book!
Finding the Finish Line starts with "Part I: Preparation for the Race". Cladis talks about waiting for His truth. She discusses the plan she had laid out for her own life - finding love, marriage, completing her master's degree, and more. Notably, getting closer to Christ wasn't included in the list. We may possibly achieve our ten year plan or we may not..... but if we made the plan of developing a deeper relationship with Christ the priority in our lives, it would free us from the pressures of all those plans.
"Part II: Running Your Race" talks about race day and running in Christ alone. I love the subheadings and Bible verses included in this section. "Part III: Racing Toward Christ" talks about putting one foot in front of the other and trusting that He will carry you. Again, the Bible verses and references included in this section are fantastic. Next is "Part IV: Facing the Finish" and it deals with our growth in failure. It discusses purpose, renewal and relationship with Christ. In my copy of the book (which may have been an advanced reader copy), the last section is also labeled "Part IV" but this one is "Part IV: Finishing Strong" and talks about perfection being a fallacy and that the race is the journey.
I won't reprint the whole book here - I will tell you that you should grab a copy of this book and keep it by your bedside. Read a little at a time, a paragraph, a page, or a chapter. You will be inspired. As I was flipping pages, I loved that I saw one of my favorite verses - Hebrews 6:19 - "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure, it enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain."
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher through the BookCrash book review program, which requires an honest, though not necessarily positive, review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s CFR Title 16, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
September 8, 2025
This book offers more than inspiration, it gives practical, faith-grounded insight into facing life’s decisions and failures with grace. I love how it pushes you to run your race with purpose.
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