For the love : fighting for grace in a world of impossible standards

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Summary:

Offers advice intended to help women find grace and contentment in life by learning to let go of unrealistic standards and unyielding stances and pursue love, God, friendship, and laughter instead.

Physical Description:

xvii, 221 pages ; 22 cm

Subject Term:

Christian life.

Publisher:

Harpercollins Christian Publishing,

Publication Date:

2015

ISBN:

9780718031824

Publication Information:

2015

Nashville, TN : Harpercollins Christian Publishing, 2015.

Call Number:

248.8 HATMAKE

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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 ...

Author Notes

Jen Hatmaker is a Christian author, speaker, blogger, and star of the HGTV series My Big Family Renovation, born in 1974. She attended Oklahoma Baptist University. She is the author of Ms. Understood: Rebuilding the Feminine Equation; Out of the Spin Cycle: Devotions to Lighten Your Mother Load, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, Interrupted: When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity, Make Over: Revitalizing the Many Roles You Fill, and For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards. Her latest book and New York Times bestseller is Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life.

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Introduction	p. xiii
Your Very Own Self
1 Worst Beam Ever	p. 3
2 On Turning Forty	p. 10
3 On Calling and Haitian Moms	p. 17
4 Fashion Concerns	p. 24
5 Run Your Race	p. 30
6 Not Buying	p. 35
7 Tell the Truth	p. 43
8 Thank-You Notes (Part 1)	p. 50
All These People Who Live in Your House
9 Hope for Spicy Families	p. 57
10 Surviving School	p. 63
11 Dear Kids	p. 70
12 Marriage: Have Fun and Stuff	p. 77
13 Jesus Kids	p. 86
14 Thank-You Notes (Part 2)	p. 96
Friends, Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies
15 Supper Club	p. 103
16 Porches as Altars	p. 113
17 Quirky	p. 120
18 Difficult People	p. 130
19 Bonus Supper Club Menu	p. 140
20 Thank-You Notes (Part 3)	p. 147
Church, Church People, Not-Church People, and God
21 Poverty Tourism	p. 153
22 Dear Church...	p. 161
23 If Social Media Were Around	p. 175
24 Thank-You Notes (Part 4)	p. 185
25 Dear Christians, Please Stop Being Lame	p. 189
26 On Women	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 205
Thank-You Notes For Real (Acknowledgments)	p. 209
Notes	p. 217
About the Author	p. 221

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