Lisa-Jo Baker
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Lisa-Jo Baker wrote the foreword to No Better Mom for the Job.
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Marriage, Family & Relationships
“For every mom who feels spent, finished, bankrupt by bedtime. Eryn reminds us with humor, honesty, and relatable experience that what you spent in time, patience, energy, memories, and do-overs was worth every penny. Literally. The investment of a lifetime made by mothers everywhere. Every day. Often without even realizing it. Read on and take heart. Because every exhausted minute you’ve spent today was deposited in ways you may never have imagined.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I read this book straight through in one sitting, over several cups of tea. And when I emerged, I found I had been holding my breath the whole time. Patrice lets us see inside the secret hidden places of her story. Intimate. Painful. Holy. “As a white woman who grew up in South Africa, I’m so grateful to Patrice, a black woman who grew up in Alaska, for opening the pages of her life. My story is changed and challenged and enriched because of hers. And I am in her debt.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“As a white woman who grew up in South Africa, I’m so grateful to Patrice, a black woman who grew up in Alaska, for opening the pages of her life. My story is changed and challenged and enriched because of hers. And I am in her debt.”
Christian Living
“It’s time to trade in the lie of being left out for the truth that there’s a place where you were made to belong! Don’t know how to get from here to there? Kristen is the kind of guide who will pick you up with coffee in one hand and a bouquet of real, honest stories in the other and drive you there in person, with music and laughter blaring all the way. This book is your instant invitation to belonging. All you have to do is accept it.”
Christian Living
“Chris Marlow is a bridge builder who made inviting my blog readers to do good in South Africa simple. What I thought would be hard and complicated, Chris and Help One Now made easy. Thousands of moms rallied around one simple project that resulted in a community water point, vegetable garden, playground, and classrooms. No mega donors, just many small amounts given by readers right in the middle of their everyday lives.”
Women
“Finally--a pregnancy book I don't want to throw out the window! Brittany Bergman has produced that rare miracle--a book that understands what motherhood does to the soul, and not just the body. What a welcome relief!”
Christian Living
“I was knee-deep in change when I picked up Kristen’s book. Our family was facing a crossroads of jobs, relocation, new schools, new friends and all the feelings that go with that level of change. So when I got to chapter 3 and Kristen’s experienced, tender permission to ‘Don’t Just Get Over It,’ I may have exhaled my tears and inhaled the rest of the book. Kristen doesn’t minimize the pain, fear, or worry that comes with change. Like the dear friend that she is, she simply sits in the midst of it with you until you are ready to see the good that God had always planned for you. This book is not just one more way to get over life’s hardest changes but a tender companion to help you get through them.”
Christian Living
“Alia uses her words to change people. She changes how we see and more importantly how we act. She gives us the gift of new eyes to see Jesus in ways and places we didn’t expect—and to follow him. Some people are beautiful writers. Some are powerful motivators. Alia is both. Her writing is a one-two punch, and we need more of it in the world.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“This book is like WebMD for your emotions. Dr. Alison’s three-step method will help you diagnose your biggest feelings and their origins before they blow up your day. A must-read for all of us trying to make sense of our behavior and find healthier ways forward.”
Christian Living
“Warning: this book will make you homesick—for people as well as for places. It also might make you wish for a green thumb. It will definitely move you toward your garden and your neighbors. Christie channels Madeleine L’Engle and Tasha Tudor in this love letter to the history of places and the people who have made their home in them. When you’re done you might be tempted to put Maplehurst into your GPS, because some places just have to been seen in person. If Christie’s words are anything to go by, I think it will be even better than you imagined.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Motherhood, like photos, develops in the dark—those unseen, exhausting hours that shape us and break us and make us. Somehow Joy has captured all that refracted light in this book. If you were to take a mother and press her like a flower between the pages of a book, you would have these stories—delicate, tender, surprising, and sacred.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“After losing my mother young, I grew up surrounded by boys. And after having two boys of my own, I was straight-up terrified of having a girl. A girl was all-new territory to me. For this mom afraid of messing up her daughter, this book is a lifeline. I might not be able to bubble wrap my girl away from the world, but I sure can wrap her up in fierce prayers and send her out into it bravely. Each prayer, each activity, each new way of seeing my girl with Jesus’ eyes filled me with gratitude and a hearty Amen for this book!”
Christian Living
“Sick of the scale being the boss of me, I needed a different voice in my head. Then I stumbled upon Wendy’s 40-Day Sugar Fast, and suddenly the spiritual connection between food, my heart, and God clicked for me. I started to see food as less of a reward or a temptation and more of a means to align my heart back with God’s. Food, like all of His good gifts, should always point us back to the Giver. It shouldn’t accuse us or guilt us. It should simply remind us what we need to sustain us. This shift in thinking has taken me forty days and beyond. And I’m so grateful for the mental overhaul more than any pounds lost. More than anything I want to be able to say with Jesus, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me’ (John 4:34). And traveling with Wendy and the 40-Day Sugar Fast community was the beginning of that journey for me.”
Christian Living
“In a loud and shouty Internet age with more people than ever before vying for our time and attention, learning how to say ‘no’ is a survival skill. One that we women especially need help mastering. Setting healthy boundaries without giving up on community altogether is the biblical life skill that Lysa unpacks with grace, faith, and a great sense of humor in this book. Reading it was like remembering how to exhale.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Motherhood is not for the faint of heart. Sleep deprivation is real, and so are a mom’s own temper tantrums (just ask my kids). So finding other moms who will admit to what real life in the trenches looks like is always a relief. Becky is that kind of mom friend. She’s been there, and she’s going to give you real-life, practical advice for how to climb out. You’re going to look around and discover the surprising secret that motherhood holds so much fun, buried right below the surface—all yours for the taking.”
The Ministry of Ordinary Places
Christian Living
“I was terrified of being ordinary,’ and with that one sentence Shannan Martin sums up every single one of us. Certainly me. And then she deconstructs the cliché of ordinary and puts it back together with pictures and stories and sidewalks full of people who will make you want to cry or sing or despair or dance or rail or just quietly whisper, amen. This book is a new pair of eyes. Go ahead, open them!”
Christian Living
“If you feel lost in your own life, this book is an invitation to pull over and wait for directions—not to drive faster or more frantically but to become comfortable with letting yourself feel lost for a while. Michelle is a good and safe person to sit with as you wait. I’m so grateful I did.”
You're Made for a God-Sized Dream
Christian Living
“Holley held my hand as I helped launch one of the biggest, scariest, most beautiful God-sized dreams I’ve ever been a part of. It impacted thousands of women from over twenty countries. This book is the blueprint that helped me make it through. I lived Holley’s words throughout all the speed bumps, pitfalls, and loud voices of fear pummeling the inside of my head and the pit of my stomach. Holley’s encouragement is practical, grounded in experience, and laced with grace, gospel, grit, and enough experience to convince you not to quit when the fear gets the loudest but to press on and into the God who gave you the dream in the first place. Everyone needs a guide when they’re on a God-sized journey. With a sense of humor and a side of cheerleading, Holley is the one I’d recommend with two thumbs up.”
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