Love Is the Point: 100 Days of God's Love for You and How to Share It with Those Around You

by Carlos PenaVega, Alexa PenaVega

Love in action is what life is all about! Take a 100-day journey to recognize the ways that God shows love in your life and discover opportunities to share that love with those around you in this daily devotional--.

In What If Love Is the Point? Carlos and Alexa PenaVega shared how putting God at the center of their marriage, parenting, and career choices dramatically changed their lives and brought real fulfillment. Now, in Love Is the Point, they've created a 100-day devotional, inviting you to join them on the adventure of experiencing God's love and boldly sharing that love with others.

This relevant and inspirational devotional will

• inspire you to focus on God and his love in their everyday lives;
• encourage you to see all of the ways that God shows his love whenever we seek him;
• and challenge you to put God's love into action through reflection questions, tips for how to love people we don't automatically connect with.

A practical and moving follow-up to their first book, this devotional reminds you that whether you are facing hardships or celebrating happy occasions, you can hear God's quiet voice that encourages and empowers you to live with hearts full of love.

Because love is the point.

Genres: Religion

224 pages, Hardcover

First published August 22, 2023

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

In Love is the Point, Carlos and Alexa PenaVega has written a book on critical it is to remember and focus on love and share it with others. Love should be the main point of our existence. This book is divided up into short devotionals for 100 days. They both realized that fame and being a celebrity couldn’t ever be the most important aspect of their lives and marriage. They explained how they were forgiven by God and loved by him. They shared how they learned to love each other and love their friends. They also shared a lot on one of their best friend’s, Andrew and how he chooses to reach out to others anytime they need assistance and is active example of love in action. They shared how he asked them to start a Bible study in their home. Lex explained how she wasn’t looking forward to it at the time and didn’t want to host and invite a lot of people in their home. She eventually agreed to and it tried out to be one of the best decisions she ever made. They had Bible study, worship, and fellowship with about 50 other people. She explained how we need to create our homes as a welcoming place for others and we can show them hospitality.


In the book, Los also opened up about his past struggles with pornography. When he received Christ, he began to feel led to give up this habit. God was calling in and instructing him to become more holy. He relied on the help of the Holy Spirit to help break this addiction. He suggested that readers find their one person who we fully trust and have them support us in our journey to let go. Lex also shared how she struggled with an eating disorder in her teens. Her own mother made a comment about Katharine McPhee and how when she revealed her own struggle with bulimia. She felt people would always judge her and she would forever be known as someone who dealt with bulimia. Her mother was just trying to protect her own daughter. But Lexa disagreed and knew she needed to acknowledge her secrets and bring them into the light. She shared how we need to share our deep secrets with someone we trust as we love in action task.



I would recommend this awesome book to anyone who is ready to love stronger and learn to truly love others like Christ does. This book is extremely helpful for marriage couples to use as a devotional together. You could also benefit from it from being single it could help you to love in the future. Each day had a short story and a love in action task to complete. I especially loved the tasks and thought it immensely helped to live out love each day. There stories are very personal and they try to make the content relatable.








"I received this book free from the publisher, Thomas Nelson for my honest review.”

[Talia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book maybe a year and a half ago, and I started reading it last April. I was intrigued when I flipped through it at the bookstore. It seemed like a devotional but with action-steps/homework for you to focus on throughout the day or week. I liked that idea! Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in "living your life" and forget to love your neighbor well, but this book seems like a great way to build up the habit of loving on those around you.

All that said... in the span of about a year, I have made it to day 15 of this book — as a fairly consistent reader, that is almost unheard of for me. And some of those days, I was not able to fully complete because I didn't have a situation available in which I could complete the task (like seeking reconciliation with someone — if you don't have a circumstance in which you could apply this, then it's hard to complete haha). I appreciate what this book is trying to do. It is a fairly aggressive way to build up the habit of loving your neighbor. I like the concept. But I do wonder if a group of readers ran through the book in a beta stage and said, "Yes, this is doable." Some of it just feels like too much to do in a week. And I am not saying that because I am a scrooge! I feel like this concept just feels too overwhelming.

If you are practicing hospitality, reconciling with someone, opening your home to strangers, sacrificing something for others, etc. in one week, that is a lot. It is good, but it is a lot. I really wanted to complete this book, but I have just realized it isn't for me. Some of this stuff I already practice anyways, so to compound my to-do-for-others list feels like an undue burden. I think if you kinda ignored doing this daily and just picked it up whenever you felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit, that would be a better methodology for finishing this book. I think the format for this book would've been better as pared-down to a thirty day devotional, or as a 100-item list in a lovely coffee table book that you could just pick up whenever.

I feel bad throwing in the towel on this book in some ways because I love the idea of it. But I also know that sometimes certain books aren't for us in certain seasons, or maybe ever. I think right now this book isn't for me.

The pages that I have looked at seemed very helpful and even convicting at points to where it made me reevaluate myself. I liked the short format of each day and the space to write off to the side. I also appreciated the variety of journal prompts or tasks to do for each day.

One area I am disappointed in this book is the paper quality 😭 since it is a journaling-type format, I wish a bit more thought had been put into the paper! It is almost like newsprint + construction paper had a baby together. It's sort of difficult to write on in any medium—pencil, pen, etc.

2.75 stars.

[Markie · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Love Is the Point: 100 Days of God’s Love for You and How to Share It with Those Around You" by Carlos PenaVega and Alexa PenaVega appears to be a devotional book that guides readers on a 100-day journey to recognize and experience God's love in their everyday lives. The authors, known for their previous work "What If Love Is the Point?" where they shared how integrating God into their marriage, parenting, and career choices transformed their lives, now offer a practical and inspiring devotional to help readers connect with God's love and share it with others.

The book seems to center around the idea that love in action is a fundamental aspect of life. Carlos and Alexa PenaVega share stories from their own lives, providing examples of how they focus on God's love in their daily routines and interactions. Through these stories, readers are encouraged to see the ways in which God's love is present in various aspects of their lives.

The devotional offers a combination of reflection questions, practical tips for showing love to others, and challenges to put God's love into action. By engaging with these prompts, readers can grow in their understanding of God's love and how they can share it with those around them.

"Love Is the Point" seems to provide a way for readers to deepen their connection with God and incorporate love as a driving force in their daily lives. If you're seeking a devotional that encourages you to reflect on God's love and how to extend it to others, this book might be a valuable resource for spiritual growth and personal reflection.

[Katherine Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Is The Point by the PenaVega's was a great and encouraging read. I enjoyed learning more about the couple's relationship beginnings while dealing with fame, the music and film industry, faith, and family. I read it through like a book rather than as a devotional, and it was a sweet and encouraging read meant to be read as a devotional over 100 days. Love Is the Point is about recognizing God's love and intentionally sharing it with those around us, boldly, and actively. It's like a typical devotional, with practical encouragement, personal reflections, and inspiring and initeresting stories meant to spur your faith and encourage you to seek the good of others. Overall id recommend it for a friend looking for a new devotional, especially if she is familiar with either authors acting or music, since there are stories directly related to that work also. It is more lighthearted and not to be considered a meaty bible study, but a sweet and encouraging devotional series to encourage your faith in actionable ways.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the copy of the book to review!

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pros: Nice format, thought-provoking prompts and suggestions for how to share love with everyone in your life, encouragement to reach out and make connections, real-life, practical ways to show up with and for one another
Cons: There was one section that suggested being kind to acquaintances, including hired help, which seemed to assume that readers would be of a certain class. I also didn't appreciate when the author shared about his porn addiction, it seemed like an odd thing to include in a daily devotional

Overall, I would recommend this book. I received a free hard copy from Goodreads.

[S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love Is The Point is a 100-day devotional by Carlos and Alexa Penavega. Each daily reading is packed full of God's word, encouragement and practical ways to share God's love with others.

[Adrienne Patenaude · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my second time reading the book and I enjoyed the book even more. From learning about Carlos and Alexa to the prompts to connect with my own faith.