For the Love

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The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus extravagant 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 first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don t like, don t understand, fear, struggle with, compare ourselves to, and judge People are the best and worst thing about the human life.Jen Hatmaker knows this all too well, and so she reveals how to practice kindness, grace, truthfulness, vision, and love to ourselves and those around us By doing this, For the Love leads our generation to reimagine Jesus grace as a way of life, and it does it in a funny yet profound manner that Christian readers will love Along the way, Hatmaker shows readers how to reclaim their prophetic voices and become Good News again to a hurting, polarized world. Best Download eBook For the Love Author Jen Hatmaker – kino-fada.fr This book is worththan 3 stars, but in light of all the 5 star reviews here and onwritten by young bloggers, probably I find myself compelled to provide a counterpoint For the Love Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards is a fun stream of consciousness roller coaster ride through the rants and raves of a Jesus loving, preacher s wife and mother of 5, sprinkled with a little minor celebrity glitz It is, therefore, not what I expected.The book is truly funny, easy This book is worththan 3 stars, but in light of all the 5 star reviews here and onwritten by young bloggers, probably I find myself compelled to provide a counterpoint For the Love Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards is a fun stream of consciousness roller coaster ride through the rants and raves of a Jesus loving, preacher s wife and mother of 5, sprinkled with a little minor celebrity glitz It is, therefore, not what I expected.The book is truly funny, easy to read in small snatches and occasionally makes a great point of practical theology If you can make a pot of chili and use a cell phone, then you can creat...It is rare that I actually end up reading a trendy book right at the height of it s trendiness but somehow I heard about Jen Hatmaker s For the Love enough in advance that I am able to give a timely review of the big book to read , for once You are welcome, my readers who like book reviews I will try to work this outoften.To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this book Let s start with the positive, shall we PositivesI have read so many good things about Jen Hatmaker, and know It is rare that I actually end up reading a trendy book right at the height of it s trendiness but somehow I heard about Jen Hatmaker s For the Love enough in advance that I am able to give a timely review of the big book to read , for once You are welcome, my readers who like book reviews I will try to work this outoften.To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this book Let s start with the positive, shall we PositivesI have read so many good things about Jen Hatmaker, and know so many people who declare her one of their favorite authors After reading her book, I can understand why her writing is so popular She has a great sense of humor, and that comes through in much of her writing I found myself chuckling several times through this book, which is always a plus.The chapters honestly felt a little disconnected to me, but once I finished the book I could think back over this seemingly random assortment of topics and see the common thread Several chapters also seem to be thrown in f...I listened to my first Jen Hatmaker book on audio This was read by the author, which always adds to the audio experience for me I could instantly tell why Jen s books are so popular she s funny, sincere, and engaging Some chapters I could have done without like why women shouldn...I don t read a lot of non fiction, let alone Christian non fiction, even though I AM a Christ follower Why Because it tends to come across preachy and well boring Plus, I have the attention span of a fruit fly I need fast, funny and filling This book is all that and a side of fries Jen Hatmaker is the Amy Pohler Tina Fey of Christian fiction.Whether it be the Thank You Notes , the chapters on marriage, social media, toxic friendships, church people Bless or the stories about motherho I don t read a lot of non fiction, let alone Christian non fiction, even though I AM a Christ follower Why Because it tends to come across preachy and well boring Plus, I have the attention span of a fruit fly I need fast, funny and filling This book is...Here s what the internet needs to know Jen Hatmaker is hilarious And honest And real I had the chance to hear her speak at the IF Gathering and was so encouraged and blessed It s no surprise then, that the same happened with her newest book, For the Love Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards.Now where shall I start I have a few quotes, so maybe I ll start with some of those We are called to this work, and it might not seem like much, but if you play your one note and I pl Here s what the internet needs to know Jen Hatmaker is hilarious And honest And real I had the chance to hear her speak at the IF Gathering and was so encouraged and blessed It s no surprise then, that the same happened with her newest book, For the Love Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards.Now where shall I start I have a few quotes, so maybe I ll start with some of those We are called to this work, and it might not seem like much, but if you play your one note and I play mine and she plays hers, together it will create a beautiful song that sounds like freedom for the captives and good news to the poor May the brokenhearted be healed and ashes turned to beauty in our generation.God, make us worthy of Your calling Don t bury that talent, because the only thing fear yields is one dormant gift in a shallow grave This book was refreshing and reminded me how great it is to be a woman, even with all the shenanigans of life Siste...Knowing Jen has a loyal following, and thinking it might resonate with my own heart for women to live in freedom, I was eager to read this It s an easy read, but I didn t find it especially inspiring I know Jen s heart is in the right place, I m not sure why I don t resonate with her writing I wasn t inspired by 7 either, but I thought it was because I had been through much of what she experimented with except my experience was real life Must just be me because everyone else seems Knowing Jen has a loyal following, and thinking it might resonate with my own heart for women to live in freedom, I was ...This title is very misleading Jen Hatmaker hardly ever mentions the word grace even though it is part of the title of her book She spends a lot of time trying to be relevant to world and going on irrelevant rants and not enough time in Scripture I feel like much of this book should be on a blog where she talks about her life, not in a book that is trying to guide me spiritually I felt like she was being condescending a lot of the time I had a hard time reading through this book and taking h This title is very misleading Jen Hatmaker hardly ever mentions the word grace even though it is part ...For the Love I struggle with where to start I am the demographic this book was written for I love grace It is my word And yet, this book felt empty to me There were indeed moments of truth Of my shouting YES But it proved to be a blip in chapter Just that, a moment The book is separated into 4 sections Half the chapters within each section are humor Literally, there is no substance found in them and they are instead a break in the book Personally, when I sit down to read, I want t For the Love I struggle with where to start I am the demographic this book was written for I love grace It is my word And yet, this book felt empty to me There were indeed moments of truth Of my shouting YES But it proved to be a blip in chapter Just that, a moment The book is separated into 4 sections Half the chapters within each section are humor Literally, there is no substance found in them and they are instead a break in the book Personally, when I sit down to read, I want to read I don t want breaks I want to read truth I want to be challenged If I want to read a book filled with jokes and to laugh which I most certainly did , I w...You guys, I m not even sure what to say about For the Love I read listened to 7 An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess several months ago and loved it Everything from the message to the voice to the audio narrator was inviting When I saw that Jen Hatmaker had a new book coming out, I jumped on it I hesitate when requesting religious books for review because while I do read these type of books regularly, I don t read them frequently enough or fast enough to really feel good about being able t You guys, I m not even sure what to say about For the Love I read listened to 7 An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess several months ago and loved it Everything from the message to the voice to the audio narrator was inviting When I saw that Jen Hatmaker had a new book coming out, I jumped on it I hesitate when requesting religious books for review because while I do read these type of books regularly, I don t read them frequently enough or fast enough to really feel good about being able to review them by the release date However, For the Love s release date was so far in advance from when I requested it and the book so short only right at 200 pages that I thought I could make it work Little did I know that I would read this one just as quickly as a fiction book That just doesn t happen to me very often After reading s...Jen Hatmaker just gets it She is hilarious and witty and doesn t sugar coat This book is fantastic in all the right places.

For the Love
  • 02 January 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 224 pages
  • 0718031822
  • Jen Hatmaker
  • For the Love