Neighbor, Love Yourself
Discover Your Value, Live Your Worth
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Jun 18, 2024 | 208 Pages
ISBN: 9780593600993
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Jun 18, 2024 | 208 Pages
ISBN: 9780593601006
About Neighbor, Love Yourself
“This book, a guide to self-love, is filled with wisdom, humor, and invaluable insights that will empower you to live life with newfound confidence and authenticity.”—Mark Batterson, author of The Circle Maker
God gave us divinely sophisticated tools, so we could live the powerful life he intended. The problem is most of us don’t know they exist . . . or how to use them. The result is an inner worth we aren’t aware of and a life unknowingly lived at half capacity.
Neighbor, Love Yourself launches an internal expedition to uncover the hidden features installed within us bearing our Maker’s fingerprints. Though we’ve forgotten how to use these custom parts, they still work. They’re not rusty, just dusty.
Bryan Crum spent a decade as a hospice chaplain. His time at the bedside of dying people gave him a front-row view into how God designed us. He discovered that most people felt they never reached their full potential. Their longings and regrets led to incredible insights about what’s most often missed—the power of love.
Filled with memorable stories and timeless takeaways, Neighbor, Love Yourself reveals how understanding our inner value changes the way we live on the outside. Before we can truly love our neighbors—or anyone else—we must learn to love ourselves as God intended.
If you’ve doubted your design, felt unfulfilled, or are unaware of the divine features inside you, this book is like finding a lost owner’s manual to your inner workings—one that invites you to take joy in your pricelessness instead of wondering about your worth.
Praise
“Crum uncovers the Maker’s fingerprints on our inner selves, reminding us that our self-worth is not lost, just waiting to be dusted off. This book, a guide to self-love, is filled with wisdom, humor, and invaluable insights that will empower you to live life with newfound confidence and authenticity.”—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker
“I started reading Neighbor, Love Yourself because the author asked me to; I finished reading it because I couldn’t put it down. As one who has lost so many I love, I found that this book puts words to the truths I want to live out before forever begins.”—Rachel Wojo, author of One More Step and Pure Joy
“Crum has done a great job of outlining applicable, hands-on ideas for how we can use our God-breathed wiring to improve our lives and the lives of others. He has deep reservoirs of wisdom, but he also tells a great story. One of his stories made my family snort-laugh over dinner as I read it to them, and when we finished laughing, we talked about the good, true things we learned in that same chapter. Neighbor, Love Yourself is that kind of book.”—Kimberly Stuart, author and public speaker
“Bryan Crum and I have been talking about Neighbor, Love Yourself for a while now, and it’s got all the pieces important to a great book. It has relatability, authenticity, and applicability. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you think. Neighbor, Love Yourself has tools for helping you moving forward, and I really think you are going to like this book.”—Bob Goff, New York Times bestselling author
“Bryan Crum has always had a gentle and witty way of telling the truth while encouraging me to seek God’s direction in my life. In Neighbor, Love Yourself,he does just that. While reading about his real-life experiences, I can hear himurging us to love how God has uniquely and purposefully made us. God has big plans for us all . . . we just need to engage with his plans.”—Nate Harmon, lead pastor of Louisville Baptist Temple, Louisville, Ohio
“In Neighbor, Love Yourself, Bryan Crum helps us uncover the potential hidden deep within us. He weaves stories of lessons learned from those nearing the end of their lives to encourage us to make the most of the life we have. I highly recommend this enjoyable book to all who desire a deeper, more fulfilling relationship with Christ.”—Dr. Mark Milioni, president of Baptist Bible College
“You’re holding an absolute treasure. If you struggle with self-compassion or wrestle to see yourself the way God sees you, this book is pure gold. You’ll find your heart softened, your mind opened, your soul lifted. Crum pulls you in with his storytelling, hands you a precious souvenir to carry with you from each chapter, and points you in the direction of unending love.”—Amy Seiffert, Bible teacher and author of Starved and Grace Looks Amazing on You
Product Details
208 pages | Published by WaterBrook
On Sale Date: Jun 18, 2024
Trim Size: 5-3/16 x 8
Carton Quantity: 24
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Bryan Crum spent a decade as a hospice chaplain. His time at the bedside of dying people gave him a front-row view into how God designed us. He discovered that most people felt they never reached their full potential. Their longings and regrets led to incredible insights about what’s most often missed—the power of love. Filled with memorable stories and timeless takeaways, Neighbor, Love Yourself reveals how understanding our inner value changes the way we live on the outside. Before we can truly love our neighbors—or anyone else—we must learn to love ourselves as God intended. If you’ve doubted your design, felt unfulfilled, or are unaware of the divine features inside you, this book is like finding a lost owner’s manual to your inner workings—one that invites you to take joy in your pricelessness instead of wondering about your worth.Press Release
Speaker Bryan Crum Shares Life-Changing Lessons and Advice Gleaned from Listening to Hundreds of Life Stories as a Hospice Chaplain, Helping Readers Discover Their God-Given Value and PurposeGod loves us, but do we love ourselves? Having listened to hundreds of life stories as a hospice chaplain, speaker and storyteller Bryan Crum realized too many people carry regret and never reached their full potential.
In his first book, Neighbor, Love Yourself: Discover Your Value, Live Your Worth (WaterBrook;on sale 6/18/24), he shares many powerful and heartfelt stories, along with timeless wisdom based from Scripture that reveal our understanding of how valuable we are on the inside changes the way we live on the outside. He also includes a number of insightful—and often humorous stories—from his own journey through the ups and downs of life.
“Are you ready to put in some effort to find the treasure in yourself? God is calling all treasure seekers, people looking for more and wondering how to find it,” Crum writes. “This [book] is an invite to an expedition inside yourself, one worth more than any box of buried gold.”
Throughout the book, he compassionately shines a light on our unique and often untapped internal design and encourages readers to:
-practice living from their true identities in Christ, learning to love themselves as God does
-learn from their “failures” and not be defined by them
-do the hard work of forgiving others—and themselves—as necessary
-limit the influence of doubt, fear, regret and bad words in their lives and partner with God to create a new future through good words
-seek moments of quiet to hear God approaching so they can listen to his voice over the noise of their own; understand the significance and many benefits of times of waiting on God
Crum assures readers that no matter what has transpired in their lives, God’s love for them is undiminished and unchanged. He emphasizes that although we all have things we want to improve or fix in our lives, “our job is to follow the Father…God does the fixing.”
Neighbor, Love Yourself will inspire believers of ages and seasons of life to fully embrace God’s love and care for them, helping them embark on greater levels of empowered and regret-free living.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bryan Crum, author of Neighbor, Love Yourself: Discover Your Value, Live Your Worth (WaterBrook; on sale 6/18/24), spent a decade as a hospice chaplain, helping people reflect on life, confront their mortality, and embrace a savior who is waiting for all of us with open arms. Having listened to hundreds of life stories, he realized too many of us carry regret. He decided to be the guy who spotlights the true words written in bold on our inner framework by our Creator, which somehow have gone unnoticed. Bryan is a military brat who has lived all over the world, and he loves to travel, speak and entertain crowds. He has a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies, an MBA from ITT Tech, and certifications from Harvard University in bioethics and world health, but the most important things Bryan learned while sitting at the bedside of dying people. Bryan lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. He is a longtime listener, a forever storyteller, and a writer shining a light on our internal design. Visit him at bryancrum.com and instagram.com/bryan_crum_
Neighbor, Love Yourself by Bryan Crum
On Sale: 6/18/24
Religion - Christian Living - Personal Growth
Religion - Christian Living - Spiritual Growth
Self-help – Motivational - Inspirational
Paperback ISBN 9780593600993 ● $17.00 U.S. ● $23.00 CAN
Ebook ISBN: 9780593601006 ● $11.99 U.S. ● $13.99 CAN
Praise for Neighbor, Love Yourself
“Crum uncovers the Maker’s fingerprints on our inner selves, reminding us that our self-worth is not lost, just waiting to be dusted off….filled with wisdom, humor, and invaluable insights that will empower you to live life with newfound confidence and authenticity.”—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker
“Bryan Crum and I have been talking about Neighbor, Love Yourself for a while now, and it’s got all the pieces important to a great book. It has relatability, authenticity, and applicability. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you think. Neighbor, Love Yourself has tools for helping you moving forward, and I really think you are going to like this book.”
—Bob Goff, New York Times bestselling author
“I started reading Neighbor, Love Yourself because the author asked me to; I finished reading it because I couldn’t put it down. As one who has lost so many I love, I found that this book puts words to the truths I want to live out before forever begins.”
—Rachel Wojo, author of One More Step and Pure Joy
“Crum has done a great job of outlining applicable, hands-on ideas for how we can use our God-breathed wiring to improve our lives and the lives of others. He has deep reservoirs of wisdom, but he also tells a great story. One of his stories made my family snort-laugh over dinner as I read it to them, and when we finished laughing, we talked about the good, true things we learned in that same chapter. Neighbor, Love Yourself is that kind of book.”
—Kimberly Stuart, author and public speaker
“Bryan Crum has always had a gentle and witty way of telling the truth while encouraging me to seek God’s direction in my life. In Neighbor, Love Yourself,he does just that. While reading about his real-life experiences, I can hear himurging us to love how God has uniquely and purposefully made us. God has big plans for us all . . . we just need to engage with his plans.”
—Nate Harmon, lead pastor of Louisville Baptist Temple, Louisville, Ohio
“God created in each of us a desire to know and be known by him. He equipped us with everything we need to live in a vibrant relationship with him. Unfortunately, our desire to know him often gets crushed by the busyness of our everyday lives, and we begin to doubt that we have anything within us that God can use. In Neighbor, Love Yourself, Bryan Crum helps us uncover the potential hidden deep within us. He weaves stories of lessons learned from those nearing the end of their lives to encourage us to make the most of the life we have. I highly recommend this enjoyable book to all who desire a deeper, more fulfilling relationship with Christ.”
—Dr. Mark Milioni, president of Baptist Bible College
