Redeeming Your Goals

7 Biblical Principles for Achieving Your Goals with Christlike Confidence, Consistency, and Character

The bestselling author of Redeeming Your Time offers a gospel-centric, ultra-practical playbook for pursuing your goals with, like, and for God.

“An insanely practical guide for achieving impossible goals.”—Dr. Benjamin Hardy, New York Times bestselling author


If you are unsure how to discern if your goals are aligned with God’s will, can’t figure out how to progress in your goals while swamped at work and home, or feel discouraged by goals you haven’t achieved, you’ll find freedom and clarity in these pages.

Rather than treating God as a means to achieving your goals (like some books do) or ignoring God altogether (like most authors do), Jordan Raynor presents a biblically-based road map to pursuing your goals with Christlike confidence.

Because Jesus is the most successful person who ever lived—by the world’s standards and by God’s—Raynor has studied the four gospel biographies to better understand how Jesus pursued his goals. The result is seven biblical principles to help you

1. Choose redemptive quests: Trade the common goals of recreation, retirement, renown, and retreat for Christ’s quest of redemption.
2. Baptize your imagination: Move from incremental to exponential vision for what God can accomplish through you.
3. Order your steps: Break big goals into a sequential plan of small steps pursued with singular focus.
4. Lighten your load: Achieve more by doing less and lightening the load on your soul, to-do list, and hurried calendar.
5. Trust God and get going: Work hard while trusting God with 100% of the results.
6. Maneuver the messy middle: Prayerfully discern when and how to quit, pivot, or persevere through the hardest part of pursuing your goals.
7. Measure upward, backward, and forward: Evaluate your success in radically different ways than the world.

Each of the seven biblical principles is followed by a menu of optional practices—fifty-eight in total—to help you live out this timeless wisdom in a modern context.

By offering a clear, gospel-centered framework you can turn to again and again, this book will be the last book on goals you’ll ever need—helping you pursue your goals with Christlike confidence, consistency, and character.
“Raynor on goals is like Brady on Super Bowls.”—Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Procrastination Proof: Never Get Stuck Again

“Pure, heavy, life-changing wisdom on nearly every page.”—Dr. Benjamin Hardy, co-founder of Scaling and author of The Science of Scaling

“This is about to become one of the most highlighted books on your shelf!”—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker

“Most goal books (and there are a lot of them) don’t work. If you want to actually hit your goals, read this book.”—Carey Nieuwhof, bestselling author, podcaster, and CEO of The Art of Leadership Academy

“A powerful and practical guide for anyone who wants to pursue their goals with integrity, humility, and a clear sense of purpose.”—Jim Huling, co-author of The 4 Disciplines of Execution

“If you’ve wondered if your goals are aligned with God’s will, this book is for you.”—Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO of Popeyes and author of Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others

“Jordan Raynor brings theological depth and practical clarity.”—Jon Houghton, CEO of Holy Post Media and executive director of Chicago Fellowship

“Accessible, practical, and immediately helpful.”—Curt Thompson, MD, psychiatrist and author of The Soul of Shame and The Deepest Place

“Easily worth 10X the cost of admission.”—Graham Cochrane, author of How to Get Paid for What You Know

“Raynor shows how ambition can become an act of faithful stewardship before God.”—Dee Ann Turner, bestselling author, speaker, and retired vice president of Chick-fil-A, Inc.

“An expert guide for those seeking a redemptive approach to their lives and leadership.”—Peter Greer, CEO of HOPE International and co-author of Lead with Prayer

“A ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ of fifty-eight practices designed to help readers pursue redemptive goals aligned with God’s purposes. Wise, creative, and deeply practical.”—Denise Daniels, Ph.D., professor of entrepreneurship at Wheaton College

Redeeming Your Goals will help you pursue goals Jesus would approve of in ways he would applaud. Highly recommended!”—Horst Schulze, co-founder of The Ritz-Carlton and author of Excellence Wins

“If you want to grow closer to the Lord and align your ambitions with the kingdom, this book is a must-read.”—Jerrad Lopes, host of The Dad Tired Podcast

“This is not a book you read once and set aside but a trusted companion you’ll return to again and again as you refine your vision across a lifetime.”—Hannah Brencher, TED speaker and author of The Unplugged Hours
© Kari Bellamy
Jordan Raynor is a leading voice of the faith and work movement and bestselling author of Redeeming Your Time. Through his books, podcasts, and weekly devotionals, he helps millions of Christians in every country connect the gospel to their work. Raynor also serves as the executive chairman of Threshold 360. He has been selected as a Google Fellow twice and served in the White House under President George W. Bush. A sixth-generation Floridian, Raynor lives in Tampa with his wife and their three young daughters. View titles by Jordan Raynor

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The bestselling author of Redeeming Your Time offers a gospel-centric, ultra-practical playbook for pursuing your goals with, like, and for God.

“An insanely practical guide for achieving impossible goals.”—Dr. Benjamin Hardy, New York Times bestselling author


If you are unsure how to discern if your goals are aligned with God’s will, can’t figure out how to progress in your goals while swamped at work and home, or feel discouraged by goals you haven’t achieved, you’ll find freedom and clarity in these pages.

Rather than treating God as a means to achieving your goals (like some books do) or ignoring God altogether (like most authors do), Jordan Raynor presents a biblically-based road map to pursuing your goals with Christlike confidence.

Because Jesus is the most successful person who ever lived—by the world’s standards and by God’s—Raynor has studied the four gospel biographies to better understand how Jesus pursued his goals. The result is seven biblical principles to help you

1. Choose redemptive quests: Trade the common goals of recreation, retirement, renown, and retreat for Christ’s quest of redemption.
2. Baptize your imagination: Move from incremental to exponential vision for what God can accomplish through you.
3. Order your steps: Break big goals into a sequential plan of small steps pursued with singular focus.
4. Lighten your load: Achieve more by doing less and lightening the load on your soul, to-do list, and hurried calendar.
5. Trust God and get going: Work hard while trusting God with 100% of the results.
6. Maneuver the messy middle: Prayerfully discern when and how to quit, pivot, or persevere through the hardest part of pursuing your goals.
7. Measure upward, backward, and forward: Evaluate your success in radically different ways than the world.

Each of the seven biblical principles is followed by a menu of optional practices—fifty-eight in total—to help you live out this timeless wisdom in a modern context.

By offering a clear, gospel-centered framework you can turn to again and again, this book will be the last book on goals you’ll ever need—helping you pursue your goals with Christlike confidence, consistency, and character.

Reviews

“Raynor on goals is like Brady on Super Bowls.”—Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Procrastination Proof: Never Get Stuck Again

“Pure, heavy, life-changing wisdom on nearly every page.”—Dr. Benjamin Hardy, co-founder of Scaling and author of The Science of Scaling

“This is about to become one of the most highlighted books on your shelf!”—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker

“Most goal books (and there are a lot of them) don’t work. If you want to actually hit your goals, read this book.”—Carey Nieuwhof, bestselling author, podcaster, and CEO of The Art of Leadership Academy

“A powerful and practical guide for anyone who wants to pursue their goals with integrity, humility, and a clear sense of purpose.”—Jim Huling, co-author of The 4 Disciplines of Execution

“If you’ve wondered if your goals are aligned with God’s will, this book is for you.”—Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO of Popeyes and author of Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others

“Jordan Raynor brings theological depth and practical clarity.”—Jon Houghton, CEO of Holy Post Media and executive director of Chicago Fellowship

“Accessible, practical, and immediately helpful.”—Curt Thompson, MD, psychiatrist and author of The Soul of Shame and The Deepest Place

“Easily worth 10X the cost of admission.”—Graham Cochrane, author of How to Get Paid for What You Know

“Raynor shows how ambition can become an act of faithful stewardship before God.”—Dee Ann Turner, bestselling author, speaker, and retired vice president of Chick-fil-A, Inc.

“An expert guide for those seeking a redemptive approach to their lives and leadership.”—Peter Greer, CEO of HOPE International and co-author of Lead with Prayer

“A ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ of fifty-eight practices designed to help readers pursue redemptive goals aligned with God’s purposes. Wise, creative, and deeply practical.”—Denise Daniels, Ph.D., professor of entrepreneurship at Wheaton College

Redeeming Your Goals will help you pursue goals Jesus would approve of in ways he would applaud. Highly recommended!”—Horst Schulze, co-founder of The Ritz-Carlton and author of Excellence Wins

“If you want to grow closer to the Lord and align your ambitions with the kingdom, this book is a must-read.”—Jerrad Lopes, host of The Dad Tired Podcast

“This is not a book you read once and set aside but a trusted companion you’ll return to again and again as you refine your vision across a lifetime.”—Hannah Brencher, TED speaker and author of The Unplugged Hours

Author

© Kari Bellamy
Jordan Raynor is a leading voice of the faith and work movement and bestselling author of Redeeming Your Time. Through his books, podcasts, and weekly devotionals, he helps millions of Christians in every country connect the gospel to their work. Raynor also serves as the executive chairman of Threshold 360. He has been selected as a Google Fellow twice and served in the White House under President George W. Bush. A sixth-generation Floridian, Raynor lives in Tampa with his wife and their three young daughters. View titles by Jordan Raynor
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