A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime Paperback - 2015

From the rear cover

A challenge to choose adventure.

If you had your life to live over again, what would you do differently? New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson and his mentor, Richard Foth, will help you answer that question before it's too late. In a storytelling style, Mark and Dick challenge you to take more risks, dream bigger dreams, and quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. The accumulated wisdom from their combined 117 trips around the sun radiates from every heartfelt page.

Want to grab life and squeeze every ounce of adventure out of it? Be inspired by this unapologetic celebration of the life Jesus died to give us.

"This is a terrific book, written by two of my favorite people on the planet."--Bob Goff, attorney and author of Love Does

"There is no word in the English language like the word adventure. A Trip around the Sun will awaken your hunger to make your life your adventure. If you can read this book without being stirred to life--check your pulse."--John Ortberg, senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and author of Soul Keeping

"Writing from the overflow of remarkable living, Mark Batterson and Dick Foth provide an owner's manual for an abundant and adventurous life."--Dr. Barry Black, Chaplain of the United States Senate


Mark Batterson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker and The Grave Robber. He is the lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC. Learn more at www.markbatterson.com.

Richard Foth is the father of four and grandfather of eleven. In his roles as a pastor, college president, and conference speaker, he is best known as a storyteller who believes that God's story and our stories touch the world.

Susanna Foth Aughtmon is the author of All I Need Is Jesus and a Good Pair of Jeans, My Bangs Look Good and Other Lies I Tell Myself, and I Blame Eve. A pastor's wife and mother of three, Susanna assists her husband in various ministries at the church they planted in California.

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