Synopses & Reviews
Your life matters, not because of what you have done or what you possess. Even when things go wrong or you make mistakes, your life still matters. It matters, because God says it does.
There is a tendency for a man to measure his worth with the wrong measurement system, to compare his life with others or not like his place on the team. But when a man knows who he is in the eyes of God, he experiences his significance. Every event and relationship has unlimited potential. He has made it to the Big Leagues.
Welcome to the Big Leagues—Every Mans Journey to Significance, The Darrel Chaney Story, shows a utility players struggle--on one of the best baseball teams to ever take the field--with ambushes, setbacks, minimum wage one year contracts and changes beyond his control. But he makes his Top-10 list, encounters the Eternal and realizes he has his place on the team and in history. Through it all, he discovered his God given significance and found it was not only the best way to play in the Big Leagues; it was the way to live a Big League life.
Welcome to the Big Leagues tells the baseball story, and at the same time it helps every man learn the same lessons. He needs to make his Top-10 list, encounter the Eternal and know his place on the team and in history. Every man can experience his God given significance.
Many men are changed by the world, but the man who knows his significance, that his life matters, is a man who will change the world. He is in the Big Leagues.
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Darrel Chaney made it to the Big Leagues. He played for 7 years on one of the best teams ever to take the field, the Cincinnati Reds—the Big Red Machine. He played in 4 National League Championship Series and 3 World Series. He was in the game that the Major League Baseball Network considered the best game of the last 50 years—game 6 of the 1975 World Series.
But Darrel had a nagging frustration that eroded his belief in his significance. Disappointments, setbacks and opposition attacked his dream. He was a utility player among superstars.
Most men are utility players. They face the same battles that Darrel faced. They get frustrated and lose enthusiasm for work and life itself. But, when a man discovers his God given significance, he enjoys life more and does better in it. Then, whatever his game, he is in the Big Leagues.
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Dan Hettinger has been involved in Pastoral Ministry for 35 years. As an ordained Pastor he has served as a Youth Pastor, Pastor, Church Planter, Ministry Coordinator and Connections Pastor. These assignments have taken him around the country: Warren, Ohio; Delray Beach, FL; Princeton, NJ; Lawrenceville, GA; Castle Rock, CO. For 25 years he was with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, for 6 years in a non-denominational church and 3 years as a non-credentialed staff member of a Presbyterian USA church.
He has also served as a Hospice Chaplain for over three years with the Hospice of Saint John and has three completed units of Clinical Pastoral Education.
Hettinger has written a popular weekly newspaper column in the OurColoradoNews.com network of newspapers for about 5 years (over 250 columns).
During a bi-vocational time in his ministry, Hettinger worked with Mosaic Training and Development, a Service Quality Measurement Provider and a business developer through Sales Training and Sales Management Training. Hettinger traveled across the country meeting with Bank executives in order to take Mosaics methodology to Community Banks and Credit Unions and then facilitate the training for the entire bank staff.
Synopsis
"Your life matters a lot more than you know.
It does not matter because of what you have done, are doing, or will do. Nor does it matter because of how much you have or someday hope to have. Your life matters because of who you are—a hard lesson for most men to learn.
Darrel Chaney played professional baseball in the Big Leagues for eleven years, which included four National League Championship Series and three World Series. This run was with one of the greatest baseball teams to ever take the field—the Cincinnati Reds, also known as The Big Red Machine.
Darrel was traded to the Atlanta Braves where he played for four years. Following that, he was a color commentator and play-by-play broadcaster with TBS during the early years of the Braves televised games.
When I got to know Darrel, I recognized a trait that I did not understand. He used self-deprecating humor as though his career had no significance. He did not brag but seemed to be embarrassed that he did not do better or achieve higher."
About the Author
Castle Rock, CO
Table of Contents
BATTING PRACTICE—ThE INTRODUCTION
ThE EARLY INNINGS—GETTING IN THE GAME
THE FIRST INNING—DREAMS
Top Half Darrels Big League Dream Started Early
Bottom Half God Plants a Dream in Every Man
THE SECOND INNING—HEROES
Top Half Darrels Big League Hero
Bottom Half Every Man Needs a Hero-Every Man Needs to Be A Hero
THE MIDDLE INNINGS—FACING THE COMPETITION
THE THIRD INNING—RESILIENCE
Top Half Surviving an Ambush on ‘Darrel Chaney Day”
Bottom Half Every Man Gets Ambushed and Needs a Survival Strategy
THE FOURTH INNING—PERSEVERANCE
Top Half Darrels Big League Setback—Making the Most of the Minor Leagues
Bottom Half Every Man Needs to Persevere His Setbacks
THE FIFTH INNING—WORTH
Top Half Another One-Year Contract Challenged-Darrels Big League Worth
Bottom Half Every Mans Worth is Revealed in a Covenant
THE SIXTH INNING—PERSPECTIVE
Top Half Darrels Competition with Self
Bottom Half The Right Perspective Helps Every Man Master Self
THE SEVENTH INNING—PURPOSE
Top Half Darrel Needed to Be Ready When the Game Came to Him
Bottom Half Every Man Has a Position on the Team
THE LATE INNINGS—KEEPING THE SCORE
THE EIGHTH INNING—IMMEASURABLE
Top Half Darrels Top 10 Big League Successes
Every Mans Top 10 Success List
THE NINTH INNING—IMPERATIVE
Top Half Darrels Place In History
Bottom Half Every Mans Impact on History
EXTRA INNINGS—WINNING THE GAME
THE TENTH INNING—ETERNAL
Top Half A Big Leaguer Encounters Eternity
Bottom Half Every Mans Encounter with Eternity
THE ELEVENTH INNING—DESTINY
Top Half Darrels Life Changes
Bottom Half Every Mans Life Changes
THE TWELTH INNING—INFINITE
Top Half Darrels Greatest Achievements
Bottom Half Every Mans Infinite Results