The Good and Beautiful You

Discovering the Person Jesus Created You to Be

By: James Bryan Smith

Narrated by: George W. Sarris

The Christian faith is not only about belief and practices, it is also about the kind of people that we become. Yet some of the biggest barriers to our transformation come from our toxic self-narratives. These narratives shape the way we see ourselves and the way we interact in the world. God designed us with a deep longing in our souls to be wanted, loved, alive, and connected to God. Healing our souls requires more than knowing what God thinks about us. Our healing comes not through reason alone, but through revelation.

"The best practice I have seen in Christian spiritual formation" was Dallas Willard's endorsement of the Good and Beautiful series a decade ago. Now this fourth book in the series, The Good and Beautiful You, addresses the self-narratives that hinder spiritual growth and the desires of the soul that only God can satisfy. James Bryan Smith reminds us how Scripture reveals the beauty and goodness of our own souls and how we long for healing that only God can provide. Complete with spiritual practices that help us live into that reality, The Good and Beautiful You will serve as a welcome companion on your journey to discover who you truly are in Christ.

©2022 James Bryan Smith (P)2023 eChristian

Solid help in living as a apprentice of Christ

Really helpful in training the soul to follow Jesus, in the specific ways we were created.

Makes you think!

It was deep and thoughtful. Sometimes a bit technical in the language. But a nice ending to the series. This whole series has definitely deepened our faith. Thank you for doing Gods work.

Great content easy to understand

I loved the explanation and the coordination with the gospel. I especially enjoyed the soul training and found it easy to follow.

An excellent reminder of important things hindered by lack of precision

As everything done by James Bryan Smith there are a lot of deep and useful thoughts that you can apply to your life by grace. However he is also not very careful with his words and tends to generalize: in this book he says things as “if you didn’t have a body God could not touch you” Really? Or “Christians are not so good in honoring our bodies” and then he goes to say how “we” are ashamed of aging. He meant American Christians. But if we don’t expect precision from him, he always has something transformative to say.

Great truths told.

Another great book. Helpful tool to use to understand how God made us and what we have to look forward to in Heaven. Thought provoking.