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  • Published: 21 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9780735291355
  • Imprint: Christian/Forum
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $38.00

Didn't See It Coming

Overcoming the Seven Greatest Challenges That No One Expects and Everyone Experiences



An influential pastor, podcaster, and thought leader believes it's not only possible to predict life's hardest moments, but also to alter outcomes, overcome challenges, and defeat your fiercest adversaries.

An influential pastor, podcaster, and thought leader believes it's not only possible to predict life's hardest moments, but also to alter outcomes, overcome challenges, and defeat your fiercest adversaries.

Founding Pastor of one of North America's most influential churches, Carey Nieuwhof wants to help you avoid and overcome life's seven hardest and most crippling challenges: cynicism, compromise, disconnectedness, irrelevance, pride, burnout, and emptiness. These are challenges that few of us expect but that we all experience at some point. If you have yet to confront these obstacles, Carey provides clear tools and guidelines for anticipation and avoidance. On the other hand, if you already feel stuck in a painful experience or are wrestling with one of these challenges, he provides the steps you need to find a way out and a way forward into a more powerful and vibrant future. Now available in paperback edition.

  • Published: 21 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9780735291355
  • Imprint: Christian/Forum
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $38.00

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Praise for Didn't See It Coming

  • "Over the years, one of the things I've enjoyed most about being a public speaker is having opportunities to hang out with Carey. We've had dozens of meals and more coffees than I can count. I've had the good fortune to hear these ideas as they developed and as they've helped leaders across the country. It's not a matter of if you'll run into these challenges; it's a matter of when. Be prepared by spending a little time with a leader who has already been there." -- Jon Acuff, New York Times best-selling author of Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

  • "If you don't take the time to see what's coming at you, you can't see the One who's coming for you. And that's why you have to read this book, which hands you more than binoculars. Carey Nieuwhof offers you his own beckoning hand. And he is one uncommonly perceptive and generous guide whose fresh, luminous insights are a needed lens for all leaders to scout out more courage, more capacity, more Christ." -- Ann Voskamp, author of New York Times bestsellers The Broken Way