cover image Wholeness: Winning in Life from the Inside Out

Wholeness: Winning in Life from the Inside Out

Toure Roberts. Zondervan, $22.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-310-35194-8

Roberts (Purpose Awakening), senior pastor of the Potter’s House in Denver, Colo., lays out a heartfelt primer on discovering inner wholeness. The author shares stories about his deteriorating first marriage, subsequent divorce, and marriage to Sarah Jakes (daughter of pastor T.D. Jakes), and details how their relationship and ministry work became mired in brokenness and pain. One pathway toward wholeness is discovering how life patterns often determine one’s responses, he writes, and he offers a five-step structure to recovery from brokenness: identifying, confronting, extracting, planting, and healing. Roberts suggests that individuals ask themselves simple questions to better understand their actions and reactions: “How are you? How do you feel, really? Are you confident, or are you feeling insecure? What thoughts are shaping your state of being?” Roberts believes that the path to wholeness (at its essence, being able to live in Christ’s loving image regardless of obstacles or circumstances) requires constant self-reflection and self-examination. Readers will appreciate Roberts’s honest self-assessment of his own weaknesses in this earnest guide for Christ followers who hope to move from unhappiness to wholeness. (Feb.)