Live Your Truth and Other Lies
Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed
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4.6 • 16 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Are you tired of feeling like you have to check social media to find out what you’re supposed to think? Are you weary of the latest self-help books that promise to set you free but only imprison you with laundry lists of studies to consider, positive affirmations to recite, and Facebook groups to join?
We’ve all seen the memes that populate the internet: live your truth, follow your heart, you only have one life to live. They sound nice and positive. But what if these slogans are actually lies that unhinge us from reality and leave us anxious and exhausted? Another Gospel? author Alisa Childers invites you to examine modern lies that are disguised as truths in today’s culture. Everyday messages of peace, fulfillment, and empowerment swirl around social media. On the surface, they seem like sentiments of freedom and hope, but in reality they are deeply deceptive.
In Live Your Truth (and Other Lies), Alisa will help you to:
• uncover the common lies repeated within progressive circles
• hold on to the soul-restoring truths that God’s Word offers
• be empowered to live the way your Creator designed you
Being the captain of your own destiny and striving to make your dreams a reality is a huge burden that you were never meant to bear. Discover true freedom instead.
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In this irascible misfire, Childers (Another Gospel?), a former member of the Christian pop group ZOEgirl, lays out Christian critiques of popular maxims. Lamenting that such sayings as "live your truth" focus on the self, Childers contends that readers should instead "ensure that our foundation is Christ" and rebuts such folk wisdom as "you only live once" and "you are enough." The author takes to task the notion that "God just wants you to be happy" and posits that being a good Christian often requires hardship, citing when Paul endured shipwreck, abduction, and imprisonment to live out his faith. Childers uses personal anecdotes to mixed effect, such as when she discusses her eating disorder and recounts when her bandmates "lovingly asked" what was going on "so they could help me," but the author then confusingly and unconvincingly tries to cast this concern as a constructive form of "judgement" that disproves the saying "you shouldn't judge." The author's pugnacious outlook (she offers lengthy takedowns of the advice of Brené Brown, Rachel Hollis, and Jen Hatmaker) and some contentious assertions (she warns against the "sin of tolerance" and writes that in the "economy of heaven, suffering actually produces joy") mean this won't be for everyone, and the sometimes difficult-to-follow lines of argument further limit the appeal. This comes up short.
