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His Revolutionary Love: Jesus' Radical Pursuit of You
His Revolutionary Love shows teen girls how a relationship with Jesus can meet their deepest desires—from the need for identity and significance to being seen by someone as beautiful.
Featuring personal stories of the author that don't gloss over her frustrations and failings—as well as stories from teens who are experiencing the pressures, difficulties, and confusion so many young women face—this book shows teen girls how Jesus' unchanging love changes absolutely everything. When a teen girl reads His Revolutionary Love, she
• Hear the story of a young girl who discovered the love of Jesus as a teen and, through God’s Word, built a foundation of love in her life that has impacted all of her relationships.
• Read quotes from other teen girls who struggle with self-esteem and acceptance.
• Understand that Jesus loves her perfectly and unconditionally.
• Know that Jesus doesn’t want her to just serve him; he wants her to accept his love and love him wholeheartedly.
• Build a solid foundation for her faith that will give her the stability to live with purpose, acceptance, and confidence in who she was created to be.
• Find guidance for deepening this limitless relationship.
Featuring personal stories of the author that don't gloss over her frustrations and failings—as well as stories from teens who are experiencing the pressures, difficulties, and confusion so many young women face—this book shows teen girls how Jesus' unchanging love changes absolutely everything. When a teen girl reads His Revolutionary Love, she
• Hear the story of a young girl who discovered the love of Jesus as a teen and, through God’s Word, built a foundation of love in her life that has impacted all of her relationships.
• Read quotes from other teen girls who struggle with self-esteem and acceptance.
• Understand that Jesus loves her perfectly and unconditionally.
• Know that Jesus doesn’t want her to just serve him; he wants her to accept his love and love him wholeheartedly.
• Build a solid foundation for her faith that will give her the stability to live with purpose, acceptance, and confidence in who she was created to be.
• Find guidance for deepening this limitless relationship.
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168 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2011
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June 12, 2012
This was an okay devotional book. I felt like it was written for an audience quite a bit younger than me...specifically, young teen girls (I'm twenty-one). When I was a teenager, I needed to hear these things and believe that God thought I was beautiful. But now I want a bit more than that, you know? Sometimes the same things were said repeatedly. The last chapter was very good, though. I think we all need a reminder about what true friendship is and of the dangers of gossip!
June 16, 2016
A Brief List of Things That Did Not Work For Me in This Book:
1. The condescension of the narrator.
2. The sexism.
(a) The suggestion that romantic relationships initiated by women aren't worth having.
(b) The thinly-veiled slut-shaming or insinuations that doing xyz makes you a slut.
(c) The objectification of young women, especially through discussions of "appropriate" clothing and the assumption that a girl devotes her wardrobe to attracting the opposite sex without consideration for personal preference or individuality.
(d) By the way, it's your responsibility to make sure that guys don't try to have sex with you. Men have responsibilities, too—as long as they treat you like royalty, but never like a person, they're good to go.
3. The sad attempts at humor.
4. The vague anecdotes and quotes from teens that had zero context.
5. The informal writing. I think it was meant to sound like a friend was talking to you, but it did not.
It isn't entirely bad. Many of the verses and Biblical discussions were halfway decent and the cover/book design was lovely. Whoever designed the book has a good eye. But mostly, I didn't like it.
It's a book that's meant to empower girls and make them realize that Jesus finds them incredibly valuable, but the way that this book is written shows that the writer does not find all girls quite so valuable and even veers into the realm of the dehumanizing sometimes. In an overall sense, I think the author seeks to make the reader feel like she is special as an individual, but in trying to promote individual strength demeans and subdues the value of other women who make other choices.
To the individual, perhaps this book is good. To the individual, perhaps this book can help someone see the value in themselves especially as given by God. But also to the individual, it can ask someone to bolster their self-esteem at the direct expense of others. It's not okay for girls to put down other girls like that. And thus, I am not okay with this book.
1. The condescension of the narrator.
2. The sexism.
(a) The suggestion that romantic relationships initiated by women aren't worth having.
(b) The thinly-veiled slut-shaming or insinuations that doing xyz makes you a slut.
(c) The objectification of young women, especially through discussions of "appropriate" clothing and the assumption that a girl devotes her wardrobe to attracting the opposite sex without consideration for personal preference or individuality.
(d) By the way, it's your responsibility to make sure that guys don't try to have sex with you. Men have responsibilities, too—as long as they treat you like royalty, but never like a person, they're good to go.
3. The sad attempts at humor.
4. The vague anecdotes and quotes from teens that had zero context.
5. The informal writing. I think it was meant to sound like a friend was talking to you, but it did not.
It isn't entirely bad. Many of the verses and Biblical discussions were halfway decent and the cover/book design was lovely. Whoever designed the book has a good eye. But mostly, I didn't like it.
It's a book that's meant to empower girls and make them realize that Jesus finds them incredibly valuable, but the way that this book is written shows that the writer does not find all girls quite so valuable and even veers into the realm of the dehumanizing sometimes. In an overall sense, I think the author seeks to make the reader feel like she is special as an individual, but in trying to promote individual strength demeans and subdues the value of other women who make other choices.
To the individual, perhaps this book is good. To the individual, perhaps this book can help someone see the value in themselves especially as given by God. But also to the individual, it can ask someone to bolster their self-esteem at the direct expense of others. It's not okay for girls to put down other girls like that. And thus, I am not okay with this book.
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