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Drown discusses building his life around Jesus in this spiritual memoir.

In his opening paragraphs, the author describes pivotal moments from his childhood, including coming to Jesus and determining that he wanted to be a coach. Although he admits to the occasional stumble, his faith has persisted throughout his life, and his boyhood dream led to a career coaching men’s and women’s basketball teams for more than 30 years. “This book,” he writes, “is a game plan for believers who desire to grow and become MORE like Christ and to do MORE for Christ in their lives.” The principle that lies at the heart of Drown’s testimony is the idea that there is always more one can do to develop one’s relationship with God. In the first section of the book, the author offers anecdotes about people who have inspired him, from students he has coached to a McDonald’s manager he encountered at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.Drown also shares passages from the Bible, along with his own commentary on them. In the book’s second section, the author provides practical advice for doing the work God calls believers to do, contrasting “Satan’s Game Plan for Less” with “God’s Game Plan for More”; he expands on these concepts in a final section devoted to learning to stay focused and inspired while trusting in and obeying the Lord. Drown’s project is to encourage Christians to work on themselves—not to point out the sins of others, or to bring others to Jesus by exploiting their fears. Proselytizing is not the central focus of this work but, rather, an inevitable outcome; Drown takes Jesus’ commandment to love seriously and interprets it as a Christian’s duty to serve as a “lighthouse for God.”

Part memoir, part spiritual self-help primer, this is an accessible guide for Christians looking to develop a more intimate relationship with God.