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Tag Archives: Jesu

She’s Got Issues

03 Wednesday Oct 2012

Posted by Kara R. Hunt in Non-Fiction, Reviews

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Bible, Christ, Christian, DVD, God, Jesu, Jesus, Nicole, Nicole Unice

YOU MAY THINK IT’S A SECRET, BUT WE’VE ALL GOT THEM …We’ve all got our issues! Maybe you feel like life just isn’t going your way, or you’re afraid that you don’t measure up to other people’s expectations. Perhaps you have a hard time managing your temper or have someone in your life you just can’t forgive. We deal with our “issues” every day in one form or another; the problem is, after a while, they start to feel . . . normal. Unchanging. Just part of who we are. And we forget that we have access to the power of Christ—a power that can transform our everyday weaknesses into our greatest strengths and gifts.

Enough about me, let’s talk about you. What do you think of me?

C.C. Bloom,Beaches

The above quote is from the book She’s Got Issues, in chapter five entitled “Insidious Insecurity” which I believe is a good way to sum up the issues that many women face today.

Author, Nicole Unice in the book and DVD brings to light the issue of insecurity, as well as others such as comparisons, fear, anger, and unforgiveness. She also warns about the damage they will do to our relationships with Christ, our families and our lives, if left unchecked. Using Scriptures from the Bible, that author lays a good foundation on how to deal with these peace-stealers and how to enjoy God’s presence while also restoring our joy in the everyday, mundane things in life. The same things, that may have become triggers for our issues.

Small groups will be in for treat using the book along with the DVD Group experience. In the DVD, Nicole and her friends bravely share their own experiences with control, insecurity, fear, anger and unforgiveness and the negative effects of that behavior, and how it can spill over into the lives of the ones we love.

Highly Recommended. She’s Got Issues book and DVD Curriculum will be an enjoyable and refreshingly new way for women to face and discuss the tough issues facing women of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds. I encourage getting the curriculum for yourself or for small discussion groups.

In She’s Got Issues, Christian counselor, ministry leader, and regular mom Nicole Unice explores the ordinary issues that are keeping you from the full and free life you were meant to have. Applying years of counseling with practical scriptural teaching and a fresh and authentic voice, Nicole shows you how to let God freely shape your character—and transform your life from ordinary to abundant.

Tyndale House Publishers has provided me with a complimentary copy of this book and DVD.

The Resignation of Eve

27 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by Kara R. Hunt in Non-Fiction, Reviews

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Christian Church, Christianity, George Barna, God, Jesu, Jim Henderson, Religion and Spirituality, Young Women

Why millions of today’s most committed church members may be ready to bolt—and what to do about it 
In talking with women around the country, Jim Henderson has come to believe that an epidemic of quiet, even sad resignation is developing among dedicated Christian women who feel overworked and undervalued in the church. As a result, many women are discouraged. Some, particularly young women, respond by leaving the organized church . . . or walking away from the faith altogether.

The Resignation of Eve is a field report on what women have to say about how they’ve been affected—both positively and negatively—by their experiences within the church. Listening to their stories is crucially important because, across the board, the research shows that women are driving changes in the church. What will happen if many of them resign?

It’s time to pay attention before it’s too late—time to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, who went out of his way to honor, elevate, and work through women wherever he went.

Containing personal interviews with women and surprising research from George Barna, The Resignation of Eve is a game-changing, conversation-starting book for women who have been engaged in the Christian church, as well as for their pastors and ministry leaders.

My Review:

The blurb from the back cover of “The Resignation of Eve” piqued my interest. The book is a compilation of conversations the author has conducted along the subject line of the lack of women leadership and acknowledgment in today’s churches.

The precise of the book is intriguing and according to some of the statistics provided definitely a topic that needs to be discussed. However, reading through the book at times became disheartening. There seemed to be much emphasis on what women do in the church instead of why they do what they do in the church, regardless of status or acknowledgement. I would’ve like to see that aspect of this controversial subject matter explored more in-depth.

That aside, my compliments to author Jim Henderson, who did an excellent job interviewing the women. His questions were deep, thoughtful and at most times thought-provoking which required the women to give the same care to their responses instead of typical worn out pat answers.

I recommend this book. Not only because the topic is worthy of discussion among pastors, ministry leaders, men and women alike in the church but because it will also lead to the discussion of why women do what they do in the church and the inevitable follow-up question, “Would they do it anyway?”

Jim Henderson is acclaimed by USA Today for having “blazed a new path as an innovator, author, church evaluator, self-professed subversive, and leader in the creation of new ways to be publicly and persuasively Christian in the twenty-first century.”

Jim is a speaker, author, and producer. His most subversive act to date was buying an atheist’s soul on eBay and then sending him to attend and review several churches. On the heels of that project, Jim hired another atheist (Matt Casper) to join him at various church services and share his feedback. Together, they recount their unique findings in a book titled Jim and Casper Go to Church (Tyndale, 2007).

After twenty-five years as a pastor, Jim formed Off the Map, an organization that produced live events designed to help people recover the lost art of being “unusually interested” in others, especially Outsiders. Today, Jim’s company, Jim Henderson Presents, produces live events and television projects that look at the important role of religious spirituality in our lives. Jim is known for asking the questions others skip.

Jim holds a doctorate in transformational leadership and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today and on Fox News and This American Life with Ira Glass.

Find out more about Jim:

Jim Henderson Presents

Resignation of Eve

Read an except from Resignation of Eve

Jim Henderson’s Facebook Page

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