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    Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

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    About this audiobook

    It's a radical, provocative idea: We're not entitled to get offended or stay angry. The idea of our own "righteous anger" is a myth. It is the number one problem in our societies today and, as Dallas Willard says, Christians have not been taught out of it.



    As it turns out, giving up our "right" to be offended can be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things we can do. In Unoffendable, listeners will find something of immeasurable value-a concrete, practical way to live life with less stress. They'll adjust their expectations to fit human nature and replace perpetual anger with refreshing humility and gratitude.



    Through the author's winsome, humorous, and conversational style, this book doesn't add another thing to do on a stressed-out person's ever-growing list. Unoffendable actually seeks to lift religious burdens from our backs and allow us to experience the joy of gratitude, perhaps for the first time, every single day of our lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateAug 28, 2015
    ISBN9781494585532
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    • 5/5
      Simple and beautiful way to see God's grace at work!
    • 5/5
      This was a fun read. The advice about anger and forgiveness were excellent, and it was also full of self-deprecating humor and stories that reinforced the message well. It clipped along quickly and naturally, and left me feeling hopeful about the peace I can experience if I do forgive as I've been forgiven, and if I put on the easy yoke of simply living with love for God and neighbor. I will be recommending this to all my friends.
    • 5/5
      Brant has a way of getting to the heart of each one of us. He gets right to the heart of what being a Christian means in our day-by-day lives, and he does so with humour, insight and wisdom.
    • 5/5
      You always show me how to live my life for Jesus.
    • 5/5
      Engaging, accessible. Unoffendable!
      Thank you for writing me this book.
    • 5/5
      Great perspective for this time in our culture where offense seems like a right! Easy to listen to and practical ways to transform our minds so that our hearts can change.
    • 5/5
      Loved it! Especially enjoyed the author narrating it! I laughed out loud many times because in his brutal honesty I could see myself. Thank you!
    • 5/5
      Amazing!!! Everyone should read this. I’m telling tons of people about it. Thank you, Brant :)
    • 5/5
      This book is truly amazing. I have battled with being hurt, angry, and offended for many years, especially after my spouse cheated on me. But I have realized, this was not walking in freedom, and harboring anger and constantly being offended is not walking in true freedom and forgiveness like God wants me to. Thank you Brant, this book is truly a gift to me today!
    • 5/5
      Such great lessons! Shifts my entire thinking. And heart set
    • 5/5
      So many reasons to self reflect and become more unoffendable
    • 5/5
      Truly life changing. I am so grateful for this book.
    • 5/5
      Such a great “heart reset” in this increasingly angry and offended world. I highly recommend!
    • 5/5
      A phenomenal book on such a relevant issue for today.
    • 5/5
      Thanks for giving me tangible ways to see God working.
    • 5/5
      Great read full of good stories. Must have must read.
    • 5/5
      Wow! I had prayed for Jesus to search my heart and He led me to this book. I had read it years ago but my heart wasn’t ready to accept these hard truths. I pray it is ready now. Listening to Brant narrate was invaluable. The perfect inflections helped me hear his heart...his authentic sinner’s heart. Thank you!
    • 5/5
      Way to challenge the predominant mindset in western Christianity. Less right living, more Christ following is a message we all need to hear.
    • 5/5
      I will never be the same.... life changing book. WOW
    • 5/5
      Very helpful book and enjoyable read. Loved his humorous style—I laughed out loud several times! But in the midst of that was challenged in my justification of my anger and encouraged to let it go. Highly recommend!
    • 5/5
      The author was superior - he was funny and seemed genuine. I am going to read this book again.
    • 5/5
      Wow, this is life changing for me! It has put into words so many obscure thoughts and questions I’ve had. It has addressed struggles and made the answers easy.
      Few books have an impact on me as this has.
      I am so grateful for this book!
    • 5/5
      This book offered a perspective many of us believers don't often entertain. It was perfectly radical, provocative, and yet simple, just as many of Jesus' teachings are. I needed to read this book-- it's truly changed me -- and I'm aspiring to live the "unoffendable" lifestyle here on out. It's not easy but I know it will be so worth it! Also, Brant Hansen has an excellent sense of humor. Loved the stories and jokes!
    • 5/5
      This is the best book I have ever read about living life without holding onto offense. Putting together a study group to do this with.
      Just finished the study over 10 weeks. The last two weeks we just reflected on what Unoffendable had changed in our lives to date. We also talked about what our plans are (individually) to move forward with this in our lives. Each person had a different specific path but we all are shedding our fights and focusing on Gods agenda. What a blessing this is going to be!!!!
    • 5/5
      Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better by Brant Hansen is very highly recommended life changing book. Today I am choosing to not be offended.

      Hansen, in a very accessible, conversational style full of self-deprecating humor, draws the attention of Christians to a Biblical truth that we may be ignoring. We need to deliberately choose to not be angry, even righteous anger, and not take offense. We need to take a step forward in our faith and walk with God and choose to be unoffendable.

      Hansen writes, "Not only can we choose to be unoffendable; we should choose that. We should forfeit our right to be offended. That means forfeiting our right to hold on to anger. When we do this, we’ll be making a sacrifice that’s very pleasing to God. It strikes at our very pride. It forces us not only to think about humility, but to actually be humble."

      As humans we actually like to be angry. Anger offers us a sense of moral superiority. The problem is when anger takes up residence in our hearts. We need to do what Dr. Martin Luther King recommended: "recognize injustice, grieve it, and act against it - but without rage, without malice, and without anger." Learning to let things go, not take offense, not make it personal, is the biggest hurdle we face. Often whatever we are scandalized over or upset about doesn't even have anything to do with us; it's someone else's behavior.

      If we can manage to not be offended and keep a mindset of gratitude life will go much better for us. "Because that’s the thing about gratitude and anger: They can’t coexist. It’s one or the other. One drains the very life from you. The other fills your life with wonder. Choose wisely." And if you are constantly being offended it might be time to honestly evaluate your inflamed ego. If you can have an attitude of gratitude and humility, you will quite naturally be less easily offended.

      Hansen summarizes that, "Choosing to be unoffendable means choosing to be humble. Not only that, the practice teaches humility. Once you’ve decided you can’t control other people; once you’ve reconciled yourself to the fact that the world, and its people, are broken; once you’ve realized your own moral failure before God; once you’ve abandoned the idea that your significance comes from anything other than God, you’re growing in humility, and that’s exactly where God wants us all." "When we surrender our perceived “rights,” when we let go of our attempts to manipulate, we find—surprise!—joy." And wouldn't anyone choose joy over being angry and offended all the time?

      This would be an excellent resource for a small group study or any individual who wants to break the easy-to-take-offense cycle that seems so common today. And, although this is firmly a Christian book, the world at large could do with a dose of being unoffendable. This is an eye-opening look at something most Christians know at some level but need to take that knowledge to heart. It's time to be unoffendable and acknowledge that God is in charge.

      Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Thomas Nelson Publishers for review purposes.


    • 5/5
      With a dedication like, "To all those who want grace for themselves but struggle to extend it to others. Wait: that's everybody." I wasn't quite sure what to expect. But with each turn of the page, I enjoyed Brant's storytelling and how he shared what living an unoffendable life looks like and why we should be living that way. I was very introspective and reflective as I read, even going as far as challenging myself t recognize the areas where I was being offended and then flip the script to be unoffended. Now that I've finished, I'm very much a believer that everyone should read this book. I am very excited to reread this book again one day.