Heart to Heart about Men: Words of Encouragement for Women of Integrity

by Nancy Groom

YOU WANT TO MAKE THIS WORK. BUT WHAT IF IT MEANS GETTING HURT-AGAIN? You want to believe it when your husband tells you he's going to change. Or when your friend says he's being completely open with you. Or when your pastor asks for your opinion, promising to take it into consideration. But something tells you not to. You've been hurt by men before and there's no guarantee this time will be any different. Why risk getting hurt again? Heart to Heart About Men is a book for women who want to relate in a godly way to the men in their lives, but aren't sure how. It reveals what it means to be a woman made in God's image and will enable you to express that in your relationships-especially your relationships with men. When it comes to the men in our lives we as women must examine not just who men are, but who we are and what we long to receive from God and from men. Heart to Heart About Men will challenge you to look deep within your heart and ask hard questions about your attitudes toward men, toward yourself, and especially toward God. If you desire open and honest relationships with the men you encounter, this book will both encourage and guide you. The journey toward these kinds of relationships will not be easy. But it will draw you nearer to God so that your relationships with men can become the heart-to-heart connections they were designed to be.

Genres: Marriage, Nonfiction, Christian Living, Christian

195 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

Reviews

[Rachel Reece · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilariously antiquated cover and book description - this book is not cool at all. Or even socially appropriate today - which is why it looks like the 90's still. She words things awkwardly sometimes and there is absolutely no mention of even the good aspects of the feminist movement...

But WOW this book is changing my life. I need to read it again. Waiting on God. Giving up control to him and accepting love you can't control. The courage it takes to face being hurt ... This is a beautiful book!

[Michelle Daly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just started it but I think it is very original. It is a book for women with men issues that want to be healed to relate to men properly. Challenge to contemp societies two lies. Don't need men-your a fool to long for them and the other you are nothing without a man. Based on the belief that God was both wise and and good when He created us to long for and respond to men, may we grow in the grace required to recieve (or perhaps wait to recieve) what we most deeply desire: the coming of God and the coming of good men to our hearts.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of those books you want to cover in public because it's a little embarrassing for people to see you reading something about relationships and with a swirly cover. But it's excellent--I'm reading it for the fourth time, and there is so much underlining and highlighting and marginalia because the author has great insights.

[Buz Mayo · Rating 3 out of 5]

After reading many books about the hearts of men who love God (and loving most of those books) I am very impressed with the insight of this author as she writes about men and women. She explores what women have settled for in their men and explores the possibilities of deeper intimacy that women can have with God and with men.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every chapter was incredibly insightful and spoke directly to things I've thought or felt or experienced. Many tissues needed, but also much joy about God's promises for change and much hope for my marriage becoming what God has in mind.

[Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book definitely had a positive impact on me.

[Joanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read for any woman in relationship with any man.

[Larissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book helpful. There are thought provoking and revealing questions at the end of each chapter.