Falling Free, Shannan Martin
Falling Free, Shannan Martin
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Falling Free
Rescued from the Life I Always Wanted

Author: Shannan Martin, Jen Hatmaker

Narrator: Ginny Welsh

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 09/20/2016

Synopsis

“Shannan’s story feels at once familiar and spectacular, ordinary and exceptional. You will discover that at the same time her words make you squirm, you will wish you lived next door to her. You will want her wisdom and you will want her pickles.” —Jen Hatmaker (from the foreword)Shannan Martin had the perfect life: a cute farmhouse on six rambling acres, a loving husband, three adorable kids, money, friends, a close-knit church—a safe, happy existence.But when the bottom dropped out through a series of shocking changes and ordinary inconveniences, the Martins followed God’s call to something radically different: a small house on the other side of the urban tracks, a shoestring income, a challenged public school, and the harshness of a county jail (where her husband is now chaplain). And yet the family’s plunge from “safety” was the best thing that could have happened to them.  Falling Free charts their pilgrimage from the self-focused wisdom of the world to the topsy-turvy life of God’s more being found in less. Martin’s practical, sweetly subversive book invites us to rethink assumptions about faith and the good life, push past insecurity and fear, and look beyond comfortable, middle-class Christianity toward a deeper, richer, and ultimately more fulfilling life.

About Shannan Martin

Shannan Martin, known for her popular blog Shannan Martin Writes, is a speaker and writer who found her voice in the country and her story in the city. She and her jail-chaplain husband, Cory, have four funny children who came to them across oceans and rivers. They enjoy neighborhood life in Goshen, Indiana, a place they fall more in love with every year.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley on August 08, 2016

In my opinion, one measure of a non-fiction book's quality is the extent to which it prompts me to examine my own life. (Actually, more and more I notice that I evaluate fiction books on this spectrum, too.) Earlier this year, I read and reviewed a book that made me reevaluate how I plan my days, we......more

Goodreads review by Emily on August 12, 2016

Wow. I was so pleasantly surprised by Falling Free. I enjoyed Shannan's blog and already knew some parts of her story, but I was blown away by this book. For starters, Shannan is a brilliant writer. She is not a blogger who writes or a speaker who writes, she is truly a WRITER. And beyond that, her......more

Goodreads review by Cara on March 25, 2017

I am smitten with Shannan Martin's writing, story and general presence. This ain't no cheesy Christian memoir, y'all.......more

Goodreads review by Linnae on February 24, 2017

4.5 stars: Made me think about my expectations of life, and how they might differ from what God expects me to do with my life. I've been a reader of Shannon's blog for several years now. I appreciate her honesty, her wit, and the way she's figuring out what her walk with God should look like. She's......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on August 11, 2016

Shannan's words will hit you to the core of your heart, they will challenge you and also encourage you. You'll find yourself so engaged in the story of how God turned her life upside down that you'll not know whether to laugh, cry of allow the conviction of your heart to flow out. I couldn't stop on......more

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