Turning the Page: Finding the Courage for Major Life Change and the Wisdom to Reinvent Yourself - Paperback

by M. Blaine Smith (Author)

IS IT TIME FOR YOU TO MAKE A NEW BEGINNING?

To find a new job? To launch a new career? To seek a serious relationship? To go ahead and marry, in spite of your fears? To move to a new home or a different city? To find a new church? To take on a challenging ministry in the church you attend? To embrace a major educational goal and see it through? To take up tennis and stick with it? To learn guitar and become a competent player?

IS IT TIME FOR YOU TO REINVENT YOURSELF?

If so, you'll find abundant help for doing so in this book. God has so designed human life, M. Blaine Smith explains, that we need a major change from time to time, to keep adventure alive and to realize our highest potential. Smith looks carefully at how we can grow more alert to the new directions God wants us to take and then find the courage to follow them, in the face of a host of fears that can hold us back. He takes a keen look at certain issues that often keep us as Christians from pursuing God's best options for us. Smith writes compassionately and with great enthusiasm for life's new beginnings, explaining how they can bring unspeakable benefits to you and to those your life touches.

This book will help you to:

• Grow more alert to God's guidance
• Recognize when God is prompting you to take a major new direction with your life
• Find the courage to reinvent yourself
• Conquer fears of failure, success, and commitment
• Let go of a comfortable situation that's holding you back from God's best
• Deal with impostor feelings that often accompany a major life change
• Understand when you're locked in to past expectations or promises and when you're not
• Overcome regret over past decisions that now seem misguided
• View your limitations as strengths

Most of all, this book will fire your passion to reinvent yourself when the time is right. Blaine Smith's counsel will help you identify that new adventure God has for you, move beyond your fears and pursue it successfully

RELATION TO OTHER M. BLAINE SMITH BOOKS: Some material from other books Blaine Smith has written is included or reworked in this one. Much of this book's content is fresh, though, and anything included from a past book is woven carefully into this book's discussion.

M. Blaine Smith is author of fifteen books, including the InterVarsity Press classics Knowing God's Will and Should I Get Married?

Author Biography

Blaine Smith's long career has included giving seminars and lectures, speaking at conferences, counseling, and writing. He is author of nine books, including "Knowing God's Will" (original and revised editions), "Should I Get Married?" (original and revised editions), "The Yes Anxiety," "Overcoming Shyness," "The Optimism Factor," "One of a Kind," and "Marry a Friend," as well as numerous articles (all books except "Marry a Friend" published originally by InterVarsity Press). These books have been published in more than thirty English language and international editions. He is also lecturer for Guidance By The Book, a home study course with audio cassettes produced by the Christian Broadcasting Network as part of their Living By The Book series. Blaine served previously as founder/director of the Sons of Thunder, believed by many to be America's first active Christian rock band, and as assistant pastor of Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, then for 30 years as director of Nehemiah Ministries, Inc. Blaine is a graduate of Georgetown University, and also holds a Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. He and Evie live in Gaithersburg, Maryland. They've been married since 1973, and have two grown sons, Benjamin and Nathan.