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For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards Hardcover – August 18, 2015

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For the Love is now a New York Times bestseller! Don't miss Jen's latest title, also a New York Times bestseller, Of Mess & Moxie.

Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She reveals with humor and style how Jesus’ embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don’t like, don’t understand, fear, compare ourselves to, and judge. Jen knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves. She reveals how to:

  • Break free of guilt and shame by dismantling the unattainable Pinterest life.
  • Learn to engage our culture’s controversial issues with a grace-first approach.
  • Be liberated to love and release the burden of always being right.
  • Identify the tools you already have to develop real-life, all-in, know-my-junk-but-love-me-anyway friendships.
  • Escape our impossible standards for parenting and marriage by accepting the standard of “mostly good.”
  • Laugh your butt off.

In this raucous ride to freedom for modern women, Jen Hatmaker bares the refreshing wisdom, wry humor, no-nonsense faith, liberating insight, and fearless honesty that have made her beloved by women worldwide.

For the Love is also available in Spanish, Por el amor de ...

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    5.75 x 0.88 x 8.63 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0718031822
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0718031824
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What readers think about "For the Love" by Jen Hatmaker

"If Jimmy Fallon and Ann Voskamp birthed a literary love child, they'd have to name it For the Love." - Danielle Brower, wife, mom, lover of love, orphan advocate

"In the midst of my uncontrollable laugher I saw the ever-present grace and mercy and hope of Jesus shining through. This is a book for the 'every woman.'" - Krista Wilbur, blogger, Netflix aficionado, dog lover

"Don't be surprised if you get to the end and want to immediately start all over again." - April Lakata Cao, military wife, mom of four extraordinary kids, writer

What readers think about "Of Mess & Moxie" by Jen Hatmaker

"I see myself so clearly in Jen's stories that I feel spied on." - Allison Picket, mom of four wild ones.

"Never have I read a book that spoke to so many of my own fears or anxieties about being a wife, a daughter, or a believer." - Jacey R. Nordmeyer.

"The perfect blend of hilarious and touching. Jen Hatmaker's poignant insights are a breath of fresh air for every woman trying to navigate the Christian life in this age of impossible expectations." - Barbar Seidle.

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About the Author

Jen Hatmaker is the author of the New York Times bestsellers For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire. Jen hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and she leads a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving community that grants millions of dollars around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas in a 1908 farmhouse with questionable plumbing.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson (August 18, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0718031822
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0718031824
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.88 x 8.63 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,687 ratings

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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.

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""If Jimmy Fallon & Ann Voskamp birthed a literacy love child, they'd have to name it For The Love."
My endorsement appears on the first page of the book! And I stand behind it still!"If Jimmy Fallon & Ann Voskamp birthed a literacy love child, they'd have to name it For The Love."GO BUY THIS BOOK! It's so relatable and well, full of opportunity for laughter & contemplating the realities of daily life as a mom, wife & friend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quirky and Fun; Full of Truth and Grace
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2015
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I want to carry a basket full of copies of this book with me everywhere I go and hand them out to every woman I see. The mom with the screaming toddler in the airport, the wife struggling to find her worth in a failing marriage, the female minister heading into her church to shepherd her flock, the young coed worried about how she compares to her friends, the new Christian, the established Christian, the don't-come-near-me-with-your-crazy-religion non-Christian ... I want them all to hold this book in their hands and feel the warm waves of love, support, and understanding that it exudes.

For the Love is a breath of fresh air to world-weary lungs and a balm to sad and splintered souls. In her quirky way, Jen Hatmaker will make you laugh and think and cry and wonder and question and pray and ponder and feel. She will be gentle with you, and she will show you what actual, true, redemptive, perfect love is all about. It's a message our very beings yearn to hear.

A combination of modern-day commentary on such ordinary-turned-hilarious topics as leggings-as-pants to the most important questions of our day -- how do we treat each other better? -- this book covers the concerns of today's women with grace and laughter. Women of Earth, you will love this book and you will walk away from reading it with a renewed sense of your own value, and you will know that you are loved.
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5.0 out of 5 stars For the Love is for Everyone!
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2015
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Months and months ago I was honored to be asked to be on the launch team for the new Jen Hatmaker book, For the Love. I’ve loved Jen from her blog, her TV show and her books. She’s challenging and real, while still making me laugh and smile may way through the ups and downs of life.

For the Love is, by far, the best book Hatmaker has ever written. Simultaneously hysterical and touching, For the Love is the book that will make you laugh at the craziness of life and then cry out in sorrow at the duplicity of the world.

Unlike Hatmaker’s previous writings, For the Love is a series of essays about what it means to love, to laugh, to follow, to lead…to be human and vulnerable and challenged and hurting all at once. For the Love reminds the reader on every page that life is not one thing. Life is not exclusively full of joy, nor is it full of nothing but sorrow. Life is not always serious and not always funny. Life is not about winning or being right, it’s about being real and giving love. Life is about the mystery of tomorrow and the long-standing promise that God has not, will not, give up on you.

Full of easy to remember quotes, the lessons from For the Love quickly become part of your vocabulary. For months I’ve been talking about kicking things #offthebeam and soon all my friends will know what that means! But, don’t be fooled into thinking For the Love is all serious and no fun. One minute Jen is reminding us that our true purpose is to love well and the next she’s lamenting the recent trend of leggings being worn as pants and thanking coffee for being her soulmate.

For the Love is a book you won’t regret reading. It will challenge and inspire. You’ll cry tears of laughter and want to go into the world and change it. You will call your girlfriends and hold them close. You will become a champion of your tribe.

More than anything, you will be changed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars In the book For the Love by Jen Hatmaker
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In the book For the Love by Jen Hatmaker, Jen writes with humor about how Jesus’ extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life’s biggest challenge: people. The majority of joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don’t like, don’t understand, fear, struggle with, compare ourselves to, and judge. People are the best and worst thing about this human life. Jen knows this very well and she reveals how practice kindness, grace, truthfulness, vision, and joy to ourselves and those in our lives. This book leads our generation to reimagine Jesus’ grace as a way of life, and it does it in a funny yet profound manner that readers will love. Along the way, she shows readers how to reclaim their prophetic voices and become Good News again to a hurting, polarized world.

I recommend this book to young adults.

This book is so funny, honest, real and easy to read. I started out reading one or two chapters a week to keep at the pace my bible study was reading it. Once moving away though I changed to reading it once a day since I didn’t need to slow down for my group. I love her theology in this book on creating community, the Haitian mother etc.) I also loved her off topic chapters on fashion, her pet peeves, facebook posts, recipes, and thank you notes.

As women we can feel like the odd one left out. We can feel like no one understands us, they don’t think like us, that don’t pray like us and no one has struggles like we do. It is simply not true. This writer does a great job of making us feel normal. That we are not alone.

My favorite chapter was “If it isn’t also true for a poor single Christian mom in Haiti, it isn’t true. This chapter was a breath of fresh air reminding us not to get sucked into the belief of positive attitude.

“If a sermon promises health and wealth to the faithful, it isn’t true, because that theology makes God an absolute monster who only blesses rich westerners and despises Christians in Africa, India, China, South America, Russia, rural Appalachia, inner-city American, and everywhere else a sincere believer remains poor. If it isn’t also true for a poor single Christian mom in Haiti, it isn’t true.”

I encourage you to buy this book it is a great christian humor devotion. I am personally looking forward to reading more by Jen.

I rate this book a 4 out of 5 stars.
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Sonia Spooner
5.0 out of 5 stars For the Love is a call to women to live a life ...
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2015
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Jen, as always, doses us the medicine of truth with a spoonful of sugar. Her humour kept me reading, and laughing. For the Love is a call to women to live a life full of love, authenticity and community. It's not your typical Christianese - how to be the perfect wife and mother / June Cleaver, book. Jen strips away the 'shoulds' and leaves us with a life filled with the joy that can only be found in grace-filled living. This book condensed about a shelf worth of books in my bookcase into one book.I loved this book so much. I promptly turned it into a book club that will be meeting soon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2015
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This book touches on so many topics close to my heart and made me laugh out loud! What more could you want?
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Jennifer Clements
5.0 out of 5 stars I love reading Jen haymakers books
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Leah
5.0 out of 5 stars For the Love - A must read!
Reviewed in Canada on September 1, 2015
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I loved this book. It is a definite re-read for me. It's funny, captivating and encourages woman! We all have our own crazy lives and Jen does a great job pointing us towards the things in life that really matter most. The love for God and the love for others is stamped all throughout this book - if that's not addressing real Grace, then I don't know what is.

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