Nice, Sharon Hodde Miller
Nice, Sharon Hodde Miller
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Nice
Why We Love to Be Liked and How God Calls Us to More

Author: Sharon Hodde Miller

Narrator: Lisa Larsen

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2019


Synopsis

God never called us to be nice.

What happens when we replace courage with compromise? What happens when we replace honesty with likability? What happens when we replace conviction with clichés? What happens when we replace discipleship to Christ with a devotion to nice?

We 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.

In 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 listeners to cultivate a better tree, providing practical steps to reclaim our credibility as followers of Christ, and bear better, richer, more life-giving fruits.

About Sharon Hodde Miller

Sharon Hodde Miller is teaching pastor at Bright City Church in Durham, North Carolina, which she cofounded with her husband, Ike. The author of Free of Me and Nice, Miller has blogged at SheWorships.com for over ten years, has been a regular contributor to Propel, Her.meneutics, and She Reads Truth, and has written for Relevant, Christianity Today, (in)courage, and many other publications and blogs. She lives with Ike and their three children in Durham, North Carolina.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alexis

When this book came across my desk, I'll be honest, I thought this was going to be another self-help-y book for Christian women about getting beyond "nice-ness" to be more "authentic", blah blah, blah. I. Was. So. Wrong! Miller's latest book is a total take-down of that mentality grounded in scripture......more

Goodreads review by Joan

“God never called us to be nice,” Miller writes. (Loc 2345/2640) What? But after reading her book, I think I get it. Yes, we are called to exhibit kindness, gentleness, and the other fruit of the Spirit. Being nice is not in that list. Being nice means we want to be liked and appreciated. We don't s......more

Goodreads review by Jodi

This was a novel concept for me: the difference between nice and kind. I think this could've been an article I read instead of a 200 page book, though. I'm doing the YouVersion devotion, as well, and that probably would've sufficed. This made me realize a trigger for me is nice people, the fake ones......more