thoughts on "Radiant: His Light, Your Life

Most people have trouble understanding who we really are, especially who we are in Christ, who we are in God’s eyes.  Instead we tend to listen to everyone else and blindly accept the labels that the world pins on us.  Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone would study the book of Ephesians and learn about their true identity?

 Recently a new faith-based movie, Overcomer, directed by Alex Kendrick and produced by Stephen Kendrick released in theaters.  Several books ‘inspired by the movie’ and geared toward different groups have been published. I’ve reviewed three of them, and now it’s time to write about the 4^th one in the group. Radiant: His Light, your life (B&H publishing, 2019) is written by Priscilla Shirer, who stars in the movie. This book is written especially for teen girls and young women.  

Ms Shirer writes from personal experience about finding her identity. She discusses issues that she has dealt with as she learned to shake off labels imposed on her by someone else, in favor of looking in the mirror and seeing the beautiful woman that she is, a child of God, created in His image.

Of course there is a journey involved, and she is careful document that journey, leading from a place of darkness to a realization that God had a plan for her, and then leaning what she needed to do to fulfill that plan.

There are 4 parts to this book each with several chapters. Each part begins with scriptures to read, affirmations to recite, along with an example of God’s eternal truth which women should believe.  At the end of each section there are things to think about and ‘takeaways’.

Many of the chapters include lists—list of the names that women should be called by, names that define who they are in God’s sight.

In today’s society, almost every women could benefit from the message that Priscilla offers. I think this book would work well as a women’s study guide, although reading it ‘solo’ would certainly be beneficial.

I received a copy  of this book from the publisher as part of their blogger’s program.

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