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Everyday Grace: Infusing All Your Relationships With the Love of Jesus Paperback – April 21, 2015

by Jessica Thompson (Author), Elyse Fitzpatrick (Foreword)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
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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
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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

About the Author

Jessica Thompson holds an MA in biblical studies. She has three adult children and is on staff at Risen Church in San Diego, California. She has written several books about the love of Christ. You will find her living in the joy and freedom of the gospel while frequenting Padres games and Disneyland.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bethany House Publishers (April 21, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764212990
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764212994
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.52 x 8.5 inches
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Jessica Thompson is co-author of the popular parenting book Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus (with Elyse Fitzpatrick). She is a wife, a mother of three, and the women's director at RISEN church in San Diego. Twitter @thejesslou // Instagram @thejesslou

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SCOTT KEITH
5.0 out of 5 stars Good, Gritty, Gospel!
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2016
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Good, Gritty, Gospel!

Jessica Thompson has crafted in Everyday Grace, something that all of us in relationships need to learn; the idea that our identity is found in Christ our propitiation. This seemingly simple reality is packed full of deep meaning. Jessica unpacks that meaning chapter after chapter. Free in Christ, with our identity, secure in his love and mercy for us, we are free to be husbands and wives, lovers and friends, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, coworkers and neighbors. What a beautiful message. Jessica's writing is easy to follow, here arguments are lucid and directly on point, and her style is laid back, gritty, and just plain fun. The book is loaded to the brim with well-chosen quotes from powerhouses of theological wisdom.

This book is rooted in the message of the power of the Gospel to set us free, move us, and change us. Jessica picks up on the reality that for all of its goodness and perfection, the Law cannot redeem us. "There is one problem with commands," says Jessica, "they do not have the power to change us. They may have the power to change our outward actions, but when it comes to the heart, only the Holy Spirit has the power to take a heart of stone and turn into a heart of flesh." Well said, Jessica.

Jessica reminds us that our work vocations are a gift from God. Not that we identify ourselves with them, for our identity is in Christ, but that we see them for what they are; a good gift from God to his children. Jessica brings this point home by saying: "Jesus' being a carpenter should be great comfort to those of you who do manual labor. The Son of God did manual labor; there is nothing demeaning about it. God does not consider you 'less than' if you don't have a job that is 'full-time ministry.'"

Finally, Jessica reminds us that we all sin in relationships and that Christ has taken even the sins we commit against those we love the most upon Himself. She elaborates by saying: "When you sin in relationship, you have an advocate with the Father. You are free to confess your sins to God and others. You have nothing left to prove. You don't have to justify yourself anymore. He is your propitiation. He has taken away all of God's wrath. When you sin, you don't need to go into hiding; you are free to walk in the light with all of your failures exposed. He has already paid for them all."

I needed to hear this today. Long story short... Buy this book! You won't be disappointed.
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jkv
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023
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I love this book so much that I have read it three times. I bought it recently to give to my daughter as a gift. The seller is obviously a wonderful person. Along with my book I received a free book that I am reading right now. I will continue to buy books from the seller whenever I can.
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Jeane` Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars This is not your everyday relationship book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015
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Jessica admits up front that if one would Google books on Christian relationships, one would be wading through over 20,000 results. What makes "Everyday Grace" one worth clicking on is that the author does not claim to present anything new, clever, three/five/twenty-step process that sticks for as long as both sides of relationship cooperate. The author is winsome and utterly down to earth in her writing style - leaving the reader feeling instantly understood, as though curled up on the couch with a longtime friend- yet the style never overshadows the substance packed within the book's chapters. Jessica deftly unpacks theology which creates a backdrop for the extraordinary grace we so desperately need every day without coming across as preachy or dull. The principles of this book are sharp, living, breathing, freeing, forgiving and requires nothing but a willing spirit to apply instantly. In a Christian culture where countless voices are clamouring, asking us to buy their book/platform/program/online resources, Jessica's is the rare voice inviting her friends to buy into grace alone, the most important resource we have waiting to be claimed every day, in every relationship. I can't imagine a heart that wasn't lighter after the reading of this book.
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Sam
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Book on Grace
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2015
Last week, I reviewed From Good to Grace by Christine Hoover. This week, it is Everyday Grace by Jessica Thompson. In a few weeks, I will do a review of Jen Hatmaker's new book about grace called For the Love. Do you notice a pattern? Even Amazon suggests purchasing Hoover's and Thompson's books together. Yet these two ladies take a different approach to God's grace. Whereas Hoover uncovers God's grace in the battle of our minds, Thompson uncovers how God's grace affects our relationships with other people.

Thompson admits at the beginning of her book that it is not intended to be a self-help book on relationships. Christian bookstore are loaded with tips and tricks on relationships, but not all relationships are the same. Our sins affect those around us, and Thompson takes this into consideration when discussing Christ's work in relationships. The book is not designed to be practical. She states, "If all we needed was a little relationship advice, then why would Jesus Christ have to come and die for our sins in order to bring us into relationship?" (26). Instead, Thompson explores how Christ is seen through different aspects of relationships.

Admittedly, this was slow reading at first. The groundwork is laid out by exploring our own sinful nature, and how God is holy compared to this nature. These explorations aren't anything new. However, Thompson offers wonderful insights into God's forgiveness and redemption through how we relate to other people. She delves into God's redeeming grace in our relationships with spouses, friends, family, co-workers, church and community.

One of my favorite parts of the book is her discussion of God and the family. As someone whose parents were divorced at a young age, it was refreshing to see someone recognize God's redemptive purposes in the family. A comfort that I found was in these words: "It is never about our family pedigree; it is always about his extravagant grace" (126). It is hard not to disassociate ourselves from our family pedigree. We might think we will inherit every negative trait from our parents, when in reality God's forgiveness covers us from family curses. The opposite is just as true as well; an excellent upbringing full of faith does not guarantee automatic entry into God's kingdom. It is only by the work of God that we enter into His presence.

The book can be summed up in four words: unrealistic expectations kills grace (117). We have unrealistic expectations towards our other people. When people do not meet those expectations, we feel the need to withhold favor and love from them. At the same time we also fail to meet other people's expectations as well. We will sin again each other and even be demanding of each other. We become resentful and bitter because someone did not do what they were supposed to do, or did something that they shouldn't have done. God enters in by providing forgiveness. He has forgiven us for our sins, and in return we forgive others.

Thompson embraces the Bible in its entirety as she delves into the many aspects of relationships. I come across too many books where verses were misconstrued or taken out of context, but that's not the case with this one. She does an excellent job explaining verses within the context of the passage, and doesn't stretch the meaning of the text to make it say what she wants it to say. It's refreshing to find women who write in this way.

Many readers would say that this book isn't practical enough. I believe that laying a firm biblical foundation will lead to practicality, and that was the motive behind Thompson's book. She addresses her audience beyond the scope of women, but shares her experience as a wife and mother. This book is recommended to anyone who wishes to see God's redeeming grace in their relationships.

Many thanks to Bethany House and NetGally for the copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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