Nicole Unice - Brave Enough: Getting Over Our Fears, Flaws, and Failures to Live Bold and Free

Every woman I know needs more courage to make the hard choices that lead to the best decisions. In Brave Enough, Nicole invites us to a deeper understanding of Jesus-courage that empowers and transforms our lives. You need this book!

CHRISTINE CAINE

Founder of Propel Women and A21 Campaign

Nicole gives us a kick in the pants (gentle, but still a kick!) to step up our courage and live the lives weve been called to live. And then she offers practical steps to take our giftings further and further!

ELISA MORGAN

Speaker and author, The Beauty of Broken and Hello, Beauty Full; cohost, Discover the Word

Nicoles book helps us see that the life God is calling us to goes far beyond what feels safe. She reveals that what God calls us to do requires bravery. The good news, however, is that Jesus requires us only to be brave enough: brave enough to take that step of faith into the unknown, the messy, the scary, the downright ugliness of loving hurting people, the place where we risk failure, and the place that requires vulnerability. Nicole then shows how he comes to meet us there and gives us what we need to live out what he has for us.

SARA POMEROY

Founder and CEO, Richmond Justice Initiative

Life in all its joy, pain, and complexity is not for the fainthearted. Raw and real, Nicole shares stories, wisdom, and practical tools that empower us to live in freedom and hold tightly to courage for the days ahead.

JO SAXTON

Co-pastor of Mission Point Church, chair of 3DMovements board, speaker, author

In Brave Enough, Nicole gives us permission to be courageous. She challenges us to be confident and dares us to step into the purpose, passion, and potential that God designed us to embrace. It all begins with a daily, authentic encounter with Jesus. With real-life wisdom and authenticity, she invites us into a new adventure of being, living, and exploring the grace and growth of life in Christ.

HEATHER ZEMPEL

Discipleship pastor at National Community Church in Washington, DC; speaker and author of Amazed and Confused and Community Is Messy

Brave Enough is a call to abandon ourselves our fears, flaws, and failures for a called-out life, a life that stands the tests of time and pressures of the crowd. As followers of Christ, we are called out to live bold and free. Christs grace makes us brave enough. Nicole offers this gift to the church with a challenge to live graciously and courageously. I also love the prayer prompts, journaling, and exercises available throughout the book, as I have found these foundational disciplines instrumental for mentoring and discipleship.

NATASHA SISTRUNK ROBINSON

Assistant director, Center for the Development of Evangelical Leadership, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte

As a pastor, husband, and father of a grown daughter, I found that Brave Enough speaks to the heart of the real stuff. Lifes hard experiences require us to be brave, but some of the more ordinary things require us to be brave too. And while this book is beneficial not just for women, it uniquely speaks to them and offers freedom from many of the fears that put chains on life. It gives them permission to not be Christian superwomen or the people that the voices say they should be. Instead, Brave Enough offers each reader the freedom to be the person God has made her to be. The insights and encouragements in this book are needed, and they offer us help for living in a culture filled with insecurity by comparison.

DAVID DWIGHT

Senior pastor, Hope Church

A lack of courage holds us back from doing those things uncomfortable, risky, costly things that God is calling us to. Nicole Unice reminds us that the One who calls is also the Source of the courage we need. A timely, welcome message at a time when we have Kingdom work to do!

CAROLYN CUSTIS JAMES

Author of The Gospel of Ruth, Half the Church, and Malestrom

Brave Enough is an eye-opening, soul-embracing, spirit-filled book with wisdom on living in the freedom God has called us all to. Nicole challenges women to truly engage their hurts and hang-ups with insight into the daily journey that God wants with us. Through her practical engagement, you will be given invaluable tools to truly get your brave on each and every day. She reminds us that as women, at our core, we are all brave enough!

EBONY HALLIBURTON

Lead associate director for women, DC Metro Church

Brave Enough is one of those books that stays with you. As I read, I felt as if Nicole was writing directly to me, opening my broken areas and pouring the truth of Gods love and power back into those very spaces. Her words are gracious, understanding, challenging, and life-giving, and you will find more freedom and more courage by the time you reach the last page.

LAURA C. ROBB

Writer and creater of LauraCRobb.com

Brave Enough offers wise, practical teaching for anyone who wants to uncover truth from Gods Word. Nicole Unice has lived and learned what it means to be brave enough in the midst of a busy life as a counselor, ministry leader, and mom. She is an articulate Bible teacher who has the unique ability to make scriptural principles understandable. Her stories, examples, and advice will inspire you to apply godly insight in your own circumstances. If you are brave enough to open the pages of this book, I believe it will change your life.

MARY ANN RUFF

Womens ministry director at Hope Church, Memphis

Nicole Unice is one of those souls who becomes an instant friend the moment you meet her. Kind, smart, funny... all around likable. She has you belly laughing one moment and in deep, soul-searching conversation the next. Nicoles new book, Brave Enough, is Nicole doing what she does best encouraging, challenging, and motivating us to live boldly and freely the life God has for us.

JENNI CATRON

Church leader and author of Clout

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Brave Enough: Getting Over Our Fears, Flaws, and Failures to Live Bold and Free

Copyright 2015 by Nicole Unice. All rights reserved.

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