Make Over: Revitalizing the Many Roles You Fill

by Jen Hatmaker, Dallas Willard, Randy Frazee

In this 5-session Bible study on character, you’ll see what women from the Bible have to say about balancing our sanity with great expectations. With her infectious humor and honest voice, Jen Hatmaker shares insights that will help you manage your time, set priorities and boundaries, and organize your world. Leader’s guide included with discussion questions. If using in a group, personal study is needed between meetings.

Genres: Nonfiction, Religion, Christian, Spirituality, Faith

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 14, 2007

About the author

JEN HATMAKER is the New York Times bestselling author of For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire, along with twelve other books. She hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and leader of a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving organization that grants millions of dollars toward sustainable projects around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas.

To learn more about Jen, visit www.jenhatmaker.com.

Reviews

[Alanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

An insightful, relatable, and helpful Bible study for women/moms. The format was great because it is broken into small enough sections to discuss in one session, with questions that help stimulate conversation.

[Danni · Rating 4 out of 5]

wonderful book. now I have a lot of scriptures in the bible to read.

[Whitney Frasier · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is so funny!

[Callie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Doing this for a bi-weekly Bible study group. It has been a great book for discussion and very thought-provoking so far.

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This was a great book for our Bible study group to read together. It had lots of things to think about and produced very interesting discussion. Jen Hatmaker is a humorous writer and an encouraging teacher. The book discusses a different role that women fill for each week of the 6 week study. Wife, mom, professional, daughter, and friend are some of the roles she touches on. I highly recommend this for group or individual study. It works very well as a group book w/questions highlighted for discussion throughout each daily section.

[Noelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This study hit home for me many times. Often I found myself considering and reconsidering what I had read all day. As a busy mom with many roles I can easily become overwhelmed. Hatmaker helped alleviate some of that. I love her writing style which is like a friend sitting with you encouraging and challenging you.

I read a chapter a day (give or take) and journaled along with each day. It was a great experience. The questions were thoughtful and thought provoking. I really learned about digging deeper in Bible study on day 5 of each week.

Sad to see it end. Excited to implement some changes.

[elizabeth sawyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can't give a full rating on this because I haven't read it thoroughly. Instead, I previewed it at a suggestion of a friend for a potential moms' study. Felt it had similar choices of biblical references and structure to many other studies... Believer, wife, mom, professional, friend. However, I really liked Hatmaker's writing style and felt she has a developed a great tool for group study here... Challenging yet doable. Solid in the Bible, but not so over the top it would be overwhelming to newer individuals to study groups.

[Deb · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am currently reading this but it is one of the best bible study/books I have read in a while. Jen Hatmaker does such a great job of reaching out and describing right where I am in life and encourages me to push on. There is a whole section about "who are we dancing for" which really helped me evaluate my priorities not only for God but for my family too.

[Kelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really feel like I needed this message. Girls do so many things at once and it really piles on more and more as we go along. Jen has an amazing voice to read. I feel so encouraged by her, that I'm not the only one thinking these things. My only thing would be that I wished it was more a memoir than a study. Sometimes it's just encouraging to hear other women's stories.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm using this during my personal devotion times and so far (about 9 chapters in) I feel like I'm liking it. A book/study where you can journal and study the Word and it can be as self-examining and thought provoking as you allow it to be.

[pianogal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this one. I loved reading about Hannah and I absolutely love the story of Ruth and Naomi. Thought this one was more applicable for me than the Girl Talk devotional I read earlier. I think Jen Hatmaker and her writing style.

[Jencey/ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have loved her other books. She is kind of like a christian Jennifer Weiner but focuses on bible studies and discussion. She is what Kristen Billerbeck is to christian fiction.

[Jody · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this with a group of moms. Fun read with discussions that flowed easily.

[Hollie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Relevant story telling. Writing with humor. Great book.

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this study with my girlfriends. A lot to take away from it on how to balance and prioritize my roles and remember just who I am living this life for!

[Chiqui · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this easy refreshing Bible study with my bestie Heather H, Dawn C., July F. Tracy B. Nancy R., Tracy K., Tina T., Jodie E. Maryellen D. ...

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I struggled with connecting with the first few chapters but after that, I loved it!