Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

by Brant Hansen

Overview

It turns out giving up your “right” to be offended can be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things you can do.

It’s a radical, provocative idea: We’re not entitled to get offended or stay angry. The idea of our own “righteous anger” is a myth. It is the number one problem in our societies today and, as Dallas Willard says, Christians have not been taught out of it. But what if Christians were the most unoffendable people on the planet?

In Unoffendable you will find concrete, practical ways to live life with less stress, including:

• Adjusting your expectations to fit human nature
• Replacing perpetual anger with refreshing humility and gratitude
• Embracing forgiveness and beginning to love others in unexpected ways

In a humorous and conversational style, Unoffendable seeks to lift religious burdens from our backs and allow us to experience the joy of gratitude, perhaps for the first time, every single day of our lives—flourishing the way God intended.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780529123855
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	04/14/2015
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Brant Hansen is a syndicated radio host, and one of the most listened-to in the country. He also hosts a popular podcast ("The Brant and Sherri Oddcast") and works extensively as an advocate of CURE International, a global network of hospitals and programs for children with correctable disabilities. In addition to his books, Unoffendable, Blessed Are the Misfits, The Truth About Us, and The Men We Need, Brant has written for the Washington Post, USNews.com, CNN.com, InTouch, and Relevant. Brant is married to Carolyn, and they have two adult children.

Table of Contents

1 Being Unoffendable: The Ridiculous Idea 1

2 Everyone's an Idiot but Me 9

3 Six Billion Rings 17

4 Artists See Things 23

5 Bert and Ernie and Satan 31

6 Beautiful Exceptions 39

7 The World's Worst Bedtime Story 45

8 Ain't You Tired? 53

9 Reverend of the Dumpster 63

10 Idea: Let's Punch Brant in the Face 71

11 Atheists, Socialists, and Toast 79

12 Anger's Fun-Except for the Boiling, Blazing, and Burning Part 85

13 The Big Question: What About Injustice? 93

14 This Is the Chapter About How We're Just Barely Smart Enough to Be Stupid 105

15 Nothing Left to Lose 117

16 And Here's the Chapter I Kept Putting Off… 123

17 We're All Waiting for Something… That Already Happened 131

18 On Winning-and by "Winning," I Mean, of Course, losing 137

19 The World's Worst Neighbor 145

20 Imbalanced? You Better Hope So 151

21 I Can Worship a God Like That 163

22 Here's the Part Where I Talk About Some Danish People 175

23 Forget Danish People-Let's Talk About Your Elbow 183

24 And Lo, the Kingdom of God Is Like a Terrible Football Team 195

Acknowledgments 203

Notes 205

About the Author 211

Editorial Reviews

"[A] charming handbook for the contemporary Christian that will also find its audience among pastors." ---Library Journal

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