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Lysa TerKeurst
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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way
Lysa TerKeurst wrote It's Not Supposed to Be This Way out of one of the most painful seasons of her life — a season marked by a devastating marriage crisis, a cancer diagnosis, and the kind of slow, grinding disappointment that makes you quietly wonder whether God is really as good as you've been told. Her core thesis is both honest and hopeful: the gaps between what we expected and what we've experienced are not evidence that God has abandoned us, but are instead the very places where He most wants to meet us. Our disappointments, she argues, can become divine appointments — if we learn to wrestle well between our faith and our feelings rather than running from the tension.
View Discussion GuideThe Best Yes
The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst is a book about one of the most quietly exhausting struggles in the Christian life: the inability to say no. Lysa argues that when we say yes to everything — out of people-pleasing, fear of disappointment, or the sheer rush of being needed — we rob ourselves of the ability to say a wholehearted, God-directed "Best Yes" to the things we were actually made for. Drawing on Scripture, personal stories, and practical wisdom, she walks readers through what it looks like to make decisions with a wisdom-based process rather than an emotion-driven reaction. The central conviction of the book is that our decisions shape our days, our days shape our lives, and a life with God at the center requires us to steward our yeses carefully.
View Discussion GuideUninvited
Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst is a deeply personal and biblically grounded exploration of one of the most universal human experiences: rejection. From the sting of being left out of a social gathering to the soul-level wound of abandonment by someone who should have loved us, rejection has a way of writing stories over our hearts — stories that tell us we are unwanted, not enough, and destined to be on the outside looking in. Lysa TerKeurst dismantles those stories with gut-honest vulnerability, pointing us instead toward a love that is handpicked, intentional, and completely unshakeable. Her central thesis is this: we are not defined by the rejections we experience, but by the One who chose us before the foundation of the world. When we learn to live from that truth rather than react from our wounds, everything changes.
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