cover image Find Your Brave: Courage to Stand Strong When the Waves Crash In

Find Your Brave: Courage to Stand Strong When the Waves Crash In

Holly Wagner. WaterBrook, $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-60142-879-0

Wagner (GodChicks), international speaker and co-pastor of Oasis Church in Los Angeles alongside her husband, champions standing strong with Christ in the face of the worst that life can throw at you. She opens her text with a stark memory of living through an earthquake in the 1990s that left her with psychological scars and a long-lasting fear for her own security. Wagner then discusses her bout with cancer and the terror that the diagnosis brought. In "finding her own brave," she creates a system that allows her to de-stress and deal with uncertainty, techniques she shares in bullet points of wisdom from which readers can glean perspective on how Wagner mustered the hope to keep going. Throughout each of the topically presented chapters, readers gain inspiration and practical steps to overcoming fear-based obstacles with God's sustaining power. Christians will take a fresh look at Paul's trials and tribulations as written in Acts 27 as Wagner provides insights that apply to today's dangerous world. (June)