For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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...

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34 reviews
Heather Booth
December 1, 2015
In the same way that '7' challenged me, this book shows me how to be a Christian in every aspect of my life. Christianity isn't just Sundays, it's constant, and this book reminded me of that. If you've read Jen's blog or any of her books then you'll know about her sense of humour and it's just as big in this book! I'm a loud laugher and I couldn't read this book in public as I'd embarass myself :) That for me is the sign of a good book, one that challenges but also cheers. One thing I struggled with in '7' was relating to their standard of living and sometimes I struggled to identify in this book too. It's not their fault, they're not rich or flaunting wealth at all, but it is far removed from my life at the moment. However, humour is universal and there are many lessons in this book to take and adapt to your own life. If you like your Christian books to challenge, encourage and most of all, make you laugh, then this one is perfect for you. I will post more soon on what I have taken from this book and it's impact on me as I continue to think it all through.
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Jen Brown
October 17, 2015
I read it aloud to my husband and we both cried and laughed out loud. Keep'em coming, Jen, we're best friends you just don't know it yet.
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Stephanie DeVries
April 1, 2016
The only book I've ever wanted to reread! Thank you so much for your authentic and hilarious honesty.
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About the author

Jen Hatmaker is the author of the New York Times bestsellers For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire. Jen hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and she leads a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving community that grants millions of dollars around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas in a 1908 farmhouse with questionable plumbing.

Jen Hatmaker is the author of the New York Times bestsellers For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire. Jen hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and she leads a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of peopl...

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