Home Run

Most Christian men will say they lead their homes spiritually. Ask them to describe what that leadership actually looks like day-to-day, and the confidence often fades into silence. Dr. Jonathan M. Leath heard that silence firsthand when a couple in his small group sat down with him. The wife said, "I need him to lead our home spiritually." Her husband admitted he didn't know how. That conversation became the seed for HOME Run: A Playbook for Men to Lead Spiritually at Home—a book written not to shame men, but to equip them. Leath argues that a man's calling to lead his home is not rooted in his competence, credentials, or spiritual maturity, but in God's design. The question was never whether a man feels qualified. It's whether he will faithfully embrace the role he's already been given. Using baseball as its organizing metaphor, HOME Run turns that calling into an actual playbook. Readers move through leading themselves before they can lead anyone else, leading their wives with humility and sacrificial love rather than control, and leading their children through consistent presence instead of unattainable perfection. Later chapters push into territory most leadership books avoid: guarding personal integrity, resisting compromise "between the lines," and confronting the sexual sin that quietly derails so many homes. Each chapter combines biblical teaching, honest personal story, and hands-on tools—a "Game Plan" with concrete next steps and reflection questions built for individual study or group discussion. This isn't leadership theory removed from real life. It's a field manual for husbands and fathers who want conviction to actually show up in their everyday homes. Leath writes as a man who has needed this message himself—a husband, father of four, pastor, and leadership strategist who understands both the theology and the daily friction of trying to live it out. He doesn't ask men to be perfect. He asks them to be present, and to keep showing up even after they've failed before. As CEO of Leath & Associates and founder of DiscoverHOPE CDC, Leath has spent his career translating biblical truth and leadership principles into practical strategies for real people—and HOME Run applies that same clarity to the most important assignment a man will ever have: his own household. Honest, biblically grounded, and refreshingly practical, HOME Run is for every man ready to stop watching his home from the sidelines and start leading it—with humility, courage, and conviction. Step up to the plate. Your family is waiting at home.