Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

by Alisa Childers

Overview

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 and Christian apologist Alisa Childers invites you to examine under the light of Scripture 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 brings refreshing honesty and clarity to hot-button issues to help you:

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, biblical freedom instead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496455666
Publisher:	Tyndale House Publishers
Publication date:	10/18/2022
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	246,000
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Alisa Childers is a wife, mom, author, podcaster, blogger, and speaker. She was a member of the award-winning CCM recording group ZOEgirl. She is currently a respected speaker at apologetics and Christian worldview conferences, as well as the host of her popular YouTube channel. Alisa's story was featured in the documentary American Gospel: Christ Crucified. She has been published at The Gospel Coalition, Crosswalk, The Stream, For Every Mom, Decision magazine, and The Christian Post, and her blog post "Girl, Wash Your Face? What Rachel Hollis Gets Right … and Wrong" received more than one million views.

Table of Contents

1 Airplanes 1

Trust Me … Even Though I've Never Done This Before

2 Trousers 9

Rebuilding the Tower of Babel-or Is It "Babble"?

3 Leprechauns 19

Live Your Truth

4 Popsicles 37

You Are Enough

5 Armageddon 51

You Should Put Yourself First

6 Cheerleader 71

Authenticity Is Everything

7 New York 89

You Only Have One Life

8 Mosquitoes 101

God Just Wants You to Be Happy

9 McJudgypants 117

You Shouldn't Judge

10 Friends 129

You Are the Boss of You

11 Jukebox 151

It's All about Love

12 Chips 165

Girl Power Is Real Power

13 Death March 187

Live the Truth

Acknowledgments 207

Notes 209

About the Author 217

Editorial Reviews

08/01/2022

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. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly