Everyday Grace: Infusing All Your Relationships With the Love of Jesus
Ebook
Your Grace-Filled Guide to Relationships
It's hard, sometimes, to get over that thing your husband
said weeks ago; or to resolve that tension with your colleague at
work; or to fix a lifelong friendship that's taken a bad turn. The
biggest problem with relationships is they always seem to involve
sinners--including ourselves. So how can we form strong, resilient
bonds with people who, like us, are bound to mess up?
Thankfully, it's not all on us. Through stories and biblical
teaching, Jessica Thompson helps us move beyond trying to "fix" the
people we interact with, and shows us a better way. Though our
relationships may be marred by tension and frustration, because we
are welcomed and known by Christ, they don't have to stay that
way.
"Nothing changes the way we relate to others more than knowing how
God relates to us. Knowing how God loves us and forgives us and is
gracious and merciful toward us and forbears with us inevitably
affects the way we think about other people. My good friend Jessica
Thompson has written a book that articulates who God is for us and
then shows how that changes the way we are toward others. Thank
you, Jessica, for reminding me that God always meets my mess with
his mercy and my failure with his forgiveness. Knowing this makes
me want to love God and others."--Tullian Tchividjian, founder of
Liberate and author of One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an
Exhausted World
"We need grace in all our relationships. So much
loneliness, feeling betrayed, alienation, anger, vengeance,
sadness, grief find their roots in relational conflict. Jessica
humbly guides us to see that only by being a recipient of God's
grace can we be agents of grace in our relationships. She does this
with humor, honesty, and confession from her own experience, not
with advice as a relational guru."--Justin S. Holcomb, Episcopal
priest, seminary professor, and author of On the Grace of
God
"Everyday Grace is for all who have struggled to accept
their children and honor their parents and initiate with their
neighbors and forgive their spouses and respect their bosses and
celebrate their rivals. But it is not filled with practical tips
that would trivialize the difficulty of these things. Nor is it a
book of relational psychology that would strategize a resolution to
these things. Instead, it is filled with the Scriptures that speak
to these things--helping us to rest in Christ's covering of all our
relational failure and inviting us to change by the power of the
Holy Spirit."--Nancy Guthrie, Bible teacher and author
"Relational paradise was lost when our first parents fell into sin.
Our desire for change in this area is anywhere between cautiously
optimistic and downright cynical. What I enjoy about Everyday
Grace is that Thompson simply cannot get over the one hope for
true reconciliation: God, in Christ, has befriended us."--Gloria
Furman, author of Glimpses of Grace and Treasuring Christ
When Your Hands Are Full
"Relationships are hard. We know this. Jessica Thompson
knows this too and shares how she fights to take her gaze off
herself and onto the only one who can help our broken
relationships--Jesus. Her method doesn't come from a list of ways
to implement change; rather, she focuses on the gospel that
transforms hearts and minds. Be encouraged by the good news as you
read Everyday Grace, for it is the gospel that is our only
Hope for our relationship problem."--Trillia Newbell, author of
Fear and Faith: Finding the Peace Your Heart Craves and
United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity
From the Back Cover
Your Grace-Filled Guide to Relationships
It's hard, sometimes, to get over that thing your husband
said weeks ago; or to resolve that tension with your colleague at
work; or to fix a lifelong friendship that's taken a bad turn. The
biggest problem with relationships is they always seem to involve
sinners--including ourselves. So how can we form strong, resilient
bonds with people who, like us, are bound to mess up?
Thankfully, it's not all on us. Through stories and biblical
teaching, Jessica Thompson helps us move beyond trying to "fix" the
people we interact with, and shows us a better way. Though our
relationships may be marred by tension and frustration, because we
are welcomed and known by Christ, they don't have to stay that
way.
"Nothing changes the way we relate to others more than knowing how
God relates to us. Knowing how God loves us and forgives us and is
gracious and merciful toward us and forbears with us inevitably
affects the way we think about other people. My good friend Jessica
Thompson has written a book that articulates who God is for us and
then shows how that changes the way we are toward others. Thank
you, Jessica, for reminding me that God always meets my mess with
his mercy and my failure with his forgiveness. Knowing this makes
me want to love God and others."--Tullian Tchividjian, founder of
Liberate and author of One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an
Exhausted World
"We need grace in all our relationships. So much
loneliness, feeling betrayed, alienation, anger, vengeance,
sadness, grief find their roots in relational conflict. Jessica
humbly guides us to see that only by being a recipient of God's
grace can we be agents of grace in our relationships. She does this
with humor, honesty, and confession from her own experience, not
with advice as a relational guru."--Justin S. Holcomb, Episcopal
priest, seminary professor, and author of On the Grace of
God
"Everyday Grace is for all who have struggled to accept
their children and honor their parents and initiate with their
neighbors and forgive their spouses and respect their bosses and
celebrate their rivals. But it is not filled with practical tips
that would trivialize the difficulty of these things. Nor is it a
book of relational psychology that would strategize a resolution to
these things. Instead, it is filled with the Scriptures that speak
to these things--helping us to rest in Christ's covering of all our
relational failure and inviting us to change by the power of the
Holy Spirit."--Nancy Guthrie, Bible teacher and author
"Relational paradise was lost when our first parents fell into sin.
Our desire for change in this area is anywhere between cautiously
optimistic and downright cynical. What I enjoy about Everyday
Grace is that Thompson simply cannot get over the one hope for
true reconciliation: God, in Christ, has befriended us."--Gloria
Furman, author of Glimpses of Grace and Treasuring Christ
When Your Hands Are Full
"Relationships are hard. We know this. Jessica Thompson
knows this too and shares how she fights to take her gaze off
herself and onto the only one who can help our broken
relationships--Jesus. Her method doesn't come from a list of ways
to implement change; rather, she focuses on the gospel that
transforms hearts and minds. Be encouraged by the good news as you
read Everyday Grace, for it is the gospel that is our only
Hope for our relationship problem."--Trillia Newbell, author of
Fear and Faith: Finding the Peace Your Heart Craves and
United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity
Product Details
- Title : Everyday Grace: Infusing All Your Relationships With the Love of Jesus
- Authors:
- Thompson, Jessica
- Fitzpatrick, Elyse
- Publisher: Bethany House
- Publication Date: 2015
- ISBN: 9781441265203
Jessica Thompson speaks regularly at women's conferences, Reformed conferences, and counseling conferences. She has a bachelor's in theology and coauthored Give them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus and Answering Your Kids' Toughest Questions with her mother, Elyse Fitzpatrick. Jessica is married with three children and lives in Poway, California.