Rise of the Truth Teller: Own Your Story, Tell It Like It Is, and Live with Holy Gumption
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| ISBN-13: | 9781493419142 |
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| Publisher: | Baker Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2019 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | NOOK Book |
| Pages: | 224 |
| File size: | 13 MB |
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Rise of the Truth Teller: Own Your Story, Tell It Like It Is, and Live with Holy Gumption
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This book really is telling it like it is with grace. Ashley's beautiful, honest, hope-filled story is a great example of humbly sharing the truth in love. If you want to take a good look at yourself and begin to uncover the lies and then stop telling them in your life, this book is for you. It is equally encouraging and challenging, building up the reader and giving you the chance to seek more from yourself, your faith, and your life. It is a clever and comical coming clean and getting real story. It is a book with application, asking for self-reflection, but never demanding a thing from the reader. Let me be clear - there is every opportunity to grow, reflect, build, change, and start being a truth teller in your own life while getting a front row to Ashley's raw and relatable journey to it herself. I can't recommend it highly enough! A book in season for so many of us on the road to healing and wholeness.
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Ashley Abercrombie truly embodies the rise of the truth teller. She bravely tells her own story; offers it up to her readers, to prove to us that we can also break our own silence on anything we have been holding back from sharing because of pain.
At the beginning of the book, Ashley even offers to be the one to go first (as she recognized the gift when she received it),so that her readers don't have that pressure and we have the easier option of going second. By the end of the book, she has her readers living with holy gumption!
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What an amazing book. Mrs. Ashley captures the sights & sounds of everyday life, straps it on the back of a pack horse & guides us through this adventure called life. This book captivated my soul & lead me into a deeper understanding of God, The Father, through bringing Scripture to life in our world, everyday scenarios. Yes, this book is geared toward women, but she speaks to the heart of men so eloquently. I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever struggled with having to make decision, which is everyone in the whole world. There is not another book on the market of this caliber, Jesus loving or world loving.
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Yes, yes, yes! Ashley nails it in this book. It requires an incredible amount of bravery to live as your authentic self, especially if you're around people who appear to "have it all together." But the beautiful truth is that most people don't! They're wearing just as much of a mask. It's so much pressure to pretend to be something you're not. We see perfection on social media and feel like a failure if our lives don't look like that. But how many times did they take that picture before posting it? We need to live in the truth of who we are and who God made us to be or we will be running from it forever. *I received an ARC from the publisher but this in no way influenced my opinion of this book.
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Well, this was a book that snuck up on me! Ashley Abercrombie is a podcaster, author, non profit board member, mom and co-pastor of a multicultural church in Manhattan. I haven't read any of her prior work before reading her upcoming book, "Rise of the Truth Teller," but I was moved, challenged and encouraged by it!
I couldn't put the book down once I began. Abercrombie calls us to own our stories, tell them honestly and walk forward in that truth. Through sharing her life story, her challenges and frustrations, Abercrombie crafts a thoughtful, heart tugging book that at once had me laughing and in tears the next moment. She also calls you out in a way that hits right to your heart.
I have so many quotes I loved in the book that I exhausted almost an entire pack of highlighter flags! This book would be a great one to read with a friend to meet and discuss together, or in a small group to work through, a few chapters at a time.
Be forewarned--you will not be able to hang on to old habits and cling to that which isn't healthy after reading this book. You will be called forth to rise, walk with your head held high and serve others for our King. If you're not sure where to start, "Rise of The Truth Teller" is a great jumping off point for a new perspective on following Jesus and what He stood for.
I was an early reader, thanks to Baker Books. All opinions are my own and I was not required to leave a review.
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This book- surprised me- a new author- same themes we've been seeing over and over- owning your story- being vulnerable/brave, but her "Live with Holy Gumption" is the first aspect of the book that brings novelty to becoming a truth teller as she learned. It also sounded like it would be focused on her story- not a book that would be practical and motivating to me, but apparently the author knows us readers, and her idea of Holy Gumption is ending each chapter with a really well done accountability piece. First she has a heading Rise, Truth Teller and bullet point strategies that in the chapter she'd applied, and then she has a heading, Tell the Truth, which are leading questions to answer for yourself about your life. She has a great sense of humor blended with reality and her book is written in friend to friend honest tone- that makes you smile and laugh a bit to yourself.
The most surprising and best aspect of this book are Ashley Abercrombie's biblical connections, she doesn't just make suggestions for handling transition and crisis, she frames it in a biblical worldview. And she does a great job sharing appropriate verses or biblical events that show how Jesus lived this way and modeled it. That's gospel living- right there, right now- but she's not preachy, she's authentic, and real, and believable. And I love it. She also shares examples from the Old testament, often including the actual verses for you to read and see for yourself the point she is making--what a breathe of fresh air her style is!! This is the kind of self help or reflection book that will benefit believers-- more of God and less of the author- but enough that we identify with it and see it in ourselves.
I do not often give out 5 stars as a review-- I read a lot and am pretty selective, but this book deserves it and I hope for more from this new author!!
Thankful to partner with Baker books and netgalley and have an advanced copy from Netgalley.
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I love this book! Ashley is a no-nonsense, raw writer who makes the reader feel like it is okay to share their story, no matter how messy. On page 19 she writes, "Real truth telling requires intimacy and vulnerability...Becoming a healthy friend in healthy relationship is a ton of work...Truth telling takes guts and gumption, grit and grace. And our world has never needed us to buck up, buttercup, more than it does now."
She divides the book into 3 parts: Own Your Story, Tell it Like it Is, and Live with Homy Gumption. At the end of each chapter, she gives highlights under a section called, Rise, Truth Teller. Then she encourages the reader to work on their stories with questions. She also incorporates Scripture in her writing.
I recommend this book for every woman who wants to know that their story matters. That they are not beyond the grace of God and that they will survive.
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