Bestselling author Holley Gerth feels like your best friend, your supportive sister, and your biggest cheerleader. She understands that you want to be a woman who looks life in the face and says, “You can’t beat me.” A woman who knows love is a risk and reaches out anyway. A woman who understands kindness takes real courage. Who doesn’t fake it or try to hide her scars. Who fights to believe she … she is who God says she is and helps others do the same.
Strong, Brave, Loved offers 60 short devotions to empower you to be that kind of woman. It’s simple, personal, and practical, with room for you to journal your own responses and reflections. With these concise and compassionate devotions, Holley leads you on a journey of discovery as you learn to live in freedom, hope, and holy courage.
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This is a great devotional! As I always do when I’m reading a Holley Gerth book, I felt like I had a personal cheerleader. I have many highlights in this book and I plan to reread it.
This is a FANTASTIC devotional/journal. I really identified with Holley and this book. With an easy to read format and a charming design, this is half devotional and half journal with a question for each day and space to write your answers down. I really love having the space to write my answers/thoughts down. Considering I read this over a couple days, I will be planning a reread of reading it the “proper” way very soon. My favorite chapters were days 31 and 34. They really spoke to my heart specifically. This is headed straight to my keeper shelf!
I received this book from the publisher and was not required to post a positive review. All thoughts are my own.
This is a very spiritual book and has a lot of wisdom in it.
Holley Gerth is a speaker and author but it is apparent that she is, first of all, a child of God. In the last devotion of this new book, she tells us that we ‘…all are living a story today. A story crafted and told by the Author of heaven. The star-scatterer. The mountain mover. The water walker. It is a story of being braved and strong and loved. A story of, most of all, love.’ (p. 224)
Don’t these words make you want to read more? I hope so because it is such a wonderful book! It is very attractive with beautifully illustrated pages, a hardback cover, and a bookmark ribbon but more importantly, the words inside will feed your soul with their encouragement and inspiration. Strong Brave Loved has sixty short devotions that speak to women of all ages and I especially like that each devotion includes God’s Word, a short prayer, and space for me to write my personal thoughts and observations.
This book is a perfect addition to your personal devotion time but it would also make a wonderful gift! I highly recommend Strong Brave Loved.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Revell. A positive review was not required and I received no financial compensation. These are my own opinions.
Strong, Brave, Loved: Empowering Reminders of Who You Really Are by Holley Gerth rates as one of the best devotionals I’ve read this year. There are sixty short devotional thoughts and each is supported by a prayer, a reflection prompt with space to respond, and a quote from Fiercehearted, Holley Gerth’s previous book. As I understand it, Stong, Brave, Loved expands off of Fiercehearted, but it is not necessary to read Fiercehearted before Strong, Brave, Loved.
I hesitated to crack open Strong, Brave, Loved by Holley Gerth for two reasons. First, I’ve got some difficult situations in my life and I feared it might be heart-rending. Second, some Christian devotionals for women promote mentally unhealthy mindsets. Fortunately, I had a really good experience with Strong, Brave, Loved. For sure, there were pages that brought tears, but each devotional topic was full of personal honesty from the author, truth to grasp, and thoughts to empower. I underlined frequently and sometimes my response to the prompt overflowed the provided lines.
I liked that each devotional had statements taken from the text and printed in red ink that can be used as affirmations to remember or to speak over yourself if you desire to. A few examples: “I am God’s daughter. I am beloved. I have everything I need for whatever I may face. (Pg. 63)” “Joy comes when we accept who we are, when we’re true to who God made us. (Pg. 74)” “The love of God for us and the grace of God toward us will never, ever change. (Pg. 92)”
I recommend Strong, Brave, Loved: Empowering Reminders of Who You Really Are by Holley Gerth to any Christian woman. It’s the second book I’ve read by Holley Gerth and I want to go back and read them all!
Disclosure of Material Connection: I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher. All opinions in this review are my own.
I have not read any other book that did more to encourage me in my daily life and my walk with the Lord than this one.! The cover is beautiful and enticing, but it’s the contents that spoke directly to my heart. The words spoke to the woman in me who needed to know that I am a strong woman of God, not to be defeated by any of the enemy’s darts that come against me. With sixty themed devotionals, Holley Gerth has reached out to each of us and confirmed the truth that God has already put into our hearts. We are “Strong, Brave and Loved.” At the end of each devotion is a time to reflect and to write how you are feeling about the truths you have encountered there. There are also quotations from the author’s previous book, FIERCEHEARTED. I think that this book is meant to be a companion to the other one, but I read it without reading the first one and was totally touched by the author’s honest tackling of real struggles in our lives. I did not identify with each part of the book, but I identified with enough of them that I can highly recommend this book to all Christian women, as a book to encourage and reflect on defeats, victories and how to continually be victorious.
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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary copy of this book from #Revell. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255, “Guides Concerning the Use of Testimonials and Endorsements in Advertising.”