{"product_id":"nice-why-we-love-to-be-liked-and-how-god-calls-us-to-more-9780801075247","title":"Nice: Why We Love to Be Liked and How God Calls Us to More","description":"\u003cb\u003eGod never called us to be nice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhat happens when we replace courage with compromise? \u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when we replace honesty with likability? \u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when we replace conviction with clich s? \u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when we replace discipleship to Christ with a devotion to nice?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a culture that prizes niceness as one of its highest virtues. Niceness keeps the peace, wins friends, gains influence, and serves our reputations well, but it also takes the teeth out of our witness and the power out of our faith. When we choose to be nice instead of faithful, we bear fruits that are bland, bitter, empty, and rotten to the core. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this life-changing book, Sharon Hodde Miller explores the seemingly innocent idol that has crept into our faith and quietly corrupted it, producing the bad fruits of cowardice, inauthenticity, shallowness, and more. Then she challenges readers to cultivate a better tree, providing practical steps to reclaim our credibility as followers of Christ, and bear better, richer, more life-giving fruits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon Hodde Miller \u003c\/b\u003eis a pastor's wife, a mother to two small boys, and the author of \u003ci\u003eFree of Me\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to earning her PhD, Sharon has blogged at SheWorships.com for nearly ten years, making God's Word accessible to women everywhere. She has been a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003ePropel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHer.meneutics\u003c\/i\u003e, and has written for \u003ci\u003eRelevant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e, (in)courage, She Reads Truth, and many other publications and blogs. She speaks regularly on topics ranging from leadership to body image to Scripture. She lives with her family in the Raleigh\/Durham area.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Baker Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514478268690,"sku":"9780801075247","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eed282d4-b2be-4a37-bb51-d72288244282.jpg?v=1730984257","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nice-why-we-love-to-be-liked-and-how-god-calls-us-to-more-9780801075247","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}