Nona Jones - Killing Comparison: Reject the Lie You Arent Good Enough and Live Confident in Who God Made You to Be

Dealing with comparison is easy as long as you dont own a phone, use the internet, or ever leave the house. If you, like me, do any of those things, though, youre going to need Nonas new book. To get to the heart of who you are and the root of comparison, read this!

JON ACUFF, New York Times bestselling author of Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking

This book is all things Nona Jonesstrength, individuality, and daring vulnerability wrapped up in one amazing message glorifying Christ! From the first page, Killing Comparison takes you on a journey from feeling insecure over your differences to truly feeling valued for the very same reasons.

SADIE ROBERTSON HUFF, author, speaker, and founder of Live Original

In her masterful work Killing Comparison, Nona Jones exposes and addresses one of the major contributors to people failing to experience their best life and become their best self: comparison. This work is timely, necessary, and destined to set people free.

DR. DHARIUS DANIELS, lead pastor of Change Church, author of Relational Intelligence and Your Purpose Is Calling

In a world that seems determined to make us believe we arent good enough comes Killing Comparison. Nona Jones has taken a well-known Bible story and turned it on its head to help us see with new eyes how to get free from comparison-born insecurity. This is a message everyone needs to read.

CAREY NIEUWHOF, bestselling author, podcaster, and founder of the Art of Leadership Academy

Whether you are a single woman, corporate executive, Sunday school teacher, or high school student, you need the message of Killing Comparison. Nona Jones has stripped insecurity down to its core to help us see it for what it is and get free from its toxic grip on our hearts.

DR. ANITA PHILLIPS, LCSW-C, trauma therapist, host of the In the Light podcast

Ever have the gnawing feeling that you just dont measure up? Well, fear no longer. Nona Jones, in Killing Comparison, kills the notion that you arent good enough. Nona tackles negative self-talk and the external forces that attempt to put a lid on the potential inside you. A must-read!

DR. A. R. BERNARD, founder and senior pastor of the Christian Cultural Center, author of Four Things Women Want from a Man

Killing Comparison is the book we all need to read to stay grounded in the truth about our identity. Its easy to believe the lie that we dont measure up when every magazine article and social media post seems to focus on our deficiencies. But Nona Jones lovingly reminds us that even what we lack has purpose.

ANTHONY ONEAL, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author and speaker

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To everyone who has ever felt like you were less-than

because it seemed like someone else was more.

CONTENTS

I f youre anything like me, you have probably read several books about insecurity. To grapple with my own issues, I have read books by incredibly thoughtful and wise authors; some are well-known Bible teachers and others are well-respected therapists. But as insightful as I found many of those books to be, the reason I wrote this book is because some of those books felt clinical. They felt detached. They felt more like theological medicine than a personal journey toward healing from insecurity.

Therefore, when I decided to write this book, I chose to provide my personal, honest, unfiltered journey, something that requires a level of vulnerability that makes my heart palpitate. No, really; with every keystroke I found my heart racing because I had to put on display some feelings and imperfections that I would prefer to keep hidden. My biggest fear, in full transparency, was that someone would read this and think, Whew, shes a mess. Why would anyone ever listen to her? But Ive laid myself bare on these pages because your freedom is worth the cost of my pride.