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For the love : fighting for grace in a world of impossible standards / Jen Hatmaker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Nelson Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvii, 221 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0718031822
  • 9780718031824
Subject(s):
Contents:
Your very own self. Worst beam ever ; On turning forty ; On calling and Haitian moms ; Fashion concerns ; Run your race ; Not buying ; Tell the truth ; Thank-you notes (part 1) -- All these people who live in your house. Hope for spicy families ; Surviving school ; Dear kids ; Marriage: have fun and stuff ; Jesus kids ; Thank-you notes (part 2) -- Friends, neighbors, strangers, and enemies. Supper club ; Porches as altars ; Quirky ; Difficult people ; Bonus supper club menu ; Thank-you notes (part 3) -- Church, church people, not-church people, and God. Poverty tourism ; Dear church... ; If social media were around ; Thank-you notes (part 4) ; Dear Christians, please stop being lame ; On women.
Summary: "Bestselling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves"--Jacket.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 248.843 H364 Available 33111008106177
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 248.843 H364 Available 33111008060291
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For the Love is now a New York Times bestseller! Don't miss Jen's latest title, also a New York Times bestseller, Of Mess & Moxie.

Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She reveals with humor and style how Jesus' embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, compare ourselves to, and judge. Jen knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves. She reveals how to:

Break free of guilt and shame by dismantling the unattainable Pinterest life. Learn to engage our culture's controversial issues with a grace-first approach. Be liberated to love and release the burden of always being right. Identify the tools you already have to develop real-life, all-in, know-my-junk-but-love-me-anyway friendships. Escape our impossible standards for parenting and marriage by accepting the standard of "mostly good." Laugh your butt off.

In this raucous ride to freedom for modern women, Jen Hatmaker bares the refreshing wisdom, wry humor, no-nonsense faith, liberating insight, and fearless honesty that have made her beloved by women worldwide.

For the Love is also available in Spanish, Por el amor de ...

Includes bibliographical references.

Your very own self. Worst beam ever ; On turning forty ; On calling and Haitian moms ; Fashion concerns ; Run your race ; Not buying ; Tell the truth ; Thank-you notes (part 1) -- All these people who live in your house. Hope for spicy families ; Surviving school ; Dear kids ; Marriage: have fun and stuff ; Jesus kids ; Thank-you notes (part 2) -- Friends, neighbors, strangers, and enemies. Supper club ; Porches as altars ; Quirky ; Difficult people ; Bonus supper club menu ; Thank-you notes (part 3) -- Church, church people, not-church people, and God. Poverty tourism ; Dear church... ; If social media were around ; Thank-you notes (part 4) ; Dear Christians, please stop being lame ; On women.

"Bestselling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves"--Jacket.

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