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Why is it so hard to trust God sometimes?   We say we trust Him with our mouths, but often not with our lives. We live like God can’t be trusted. Like He doesn't actually want what is best for us. Like He is just another person who, as Eve assumed in the Garden all those years ago, might hold out on us.   Bestselling author Jackie Hill Perry, in her much anticipated follow-up to Gay Girl, Good God, helps us find the reason we don’t trust God—we misunderstand His holiness.   In Holier Than Thou, Jackie walks us through Scripture, shaking the dust off of “holy” as we’ve come to know it and revealing it for what it really is. In these pages, we will see that God is not like us. He is different. He is holy. And that’s exactly what makes Him trustworthy. As it turns out, God being “holier than thou” is actually the best news in the world, and it’s the key to trusting Him.  

“I used to be a lesbian.” In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.

What do you wake up to each day? What do you discover once your eyes have opened and you put your feet to the floor? A mountain of notifications? An endless feed of headlines that make you angry? A flood of tasks that you can't possibly get done in the next twenty-four hours? What if you could wake up each day to discover something so much bigger--and so much better for you--than all that chaos? What if you could discover God? What if you could discover yourself in light of that God? What if your eyes could be opened to the things that really mattered? What if, in one simple devotional a day, you could glean principles from timeless wisdom to sharpen you for each day's inevitable challenges? In her lyrical, compelling, and poignant voice, bestselling author and Bible teacher Jackie Hill Perry offers 60 short, daily reflections on specific passages from Scripture to help you awaken to the God you were made for, the life you were made for, and the person you were made to be.

Historia o tym, kim kiedyś byłam, i o tym, kim zawsze był Bóg Kiedyś byłam lesbijką. W książce Byłam Lesbijką. Gay Girl, Good God Jackie Hill Perry dzieli się historią swojego życia, opowiadając o praktycznych narzędziach, które pomogły jej odzyskać pełnię człowieczeństwa. Wiedziała, że chrześcijanie mają wiele do powiedzenia na temat seksualności i tożsamości płciowej. Czy powinna zatem spróbować zmienić samą siebie? Jak mogła przestać kochać kobiety, skoro czuła, że homoseksualizm jest dla niej bardziej naturalny, niż kiedykolwiek byłby heteroseksualizm? W wieku dziewiętnastu lat Jackie na własnej skórze doświadczyła, co to znaczy stać się nowym człowiekiem. I to nie w trakcie nabożeństwa czy rozmowy z człowiekiem wierzącym. To sam Bóg, wszedłszy do pokoju Jackie, wkroczył tym samym w jej życie i pociągnął jej serce ku Sobie ku światłu Swojej Ewangelii. Przeczytaj, aby zrozumieć. Przeczytaj, aby zyskać nadzieję. Albo przeczytaj, aby jak Jackie stać się nowym człowiekiem. Jackie Hill Perry pisarka, poetka i artystka, której utwory publikowano na łamach The Washington Times, a także na stronach internetowych takich organizacji jak Desiring God, The Gospel Coalition i inne. Od swojego nawrócenia w 2008 roku odczuwa nieodparte pragnienie, aby dzięki swojemu darowi przemawiania i nauczania dzielić się światłem Ewangelii Bożej tak prawdziwie, jak tylko potrafi. Prywatnie jest żoną Prestona oraz mamą trzech córeczek, Eden, Autumn i Sage.