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    Dropping Your Rock: The Freedom to Choose Love Over Judgment
    Dropping Your Rock: The Freedom to Choose Love Over Judgment
    Dropping Your Rock: The Freedom to Choose Love Over Judgment
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    Dropping Your Rock: The Freedom to Choose Love Over Judgment

    By Nicole Johnson

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    With tender words and touching photos, Nicole Johnson guides us toward the "flat thud of grace" that can change our lives when we drop our rocks and choose to love instead.

    “When your son tells you he’s homosexual, your best friend confesses in agony she’s having an affair, or your sister tearfully describes her abortion, you have a choice to leave mere theory behind and enter the gritty reality of relationship. Love is giving you a chance to choose.”

    Rock-throwing is one way to settle hostilities or to exchange accusations. You can knock Goliath flat if your rock hits him in the right spot. Not bad, if your goal is to kill your enemy. You can express your moral outrage by joining the angry mob howling for a sinner to be stoned. But what if that sinner is your friend, and you would rather change their heart than shed their blood? We don't have to hurl the rocks we clutch in our judgmental hands.

    This offering in the Faith/Hope/Love Trilogy by Nicole continues to be requested by audiences that saw her perform the dramatic sketch on the 2001 tour.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateOct 17, 2011
    ISBN9781418514990
    Dropping Your Rock: The Freedom to Choose Love Over Judgment

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      Dropping Your Rock - Nicole Johnson

      DROPPING your

      ROCK

      ALSO BY

      NICOLE JOHNSON

      Fresh Brewed Life

      A Stirring Invitation to Wake Up Your Soul

      Nicole Johnson Live (video)

      Funny Stuff Women Can Relate To

      Raising Your Sail

      Finding Your Way to Faith over Fear

      Stepping into the Ring

      Fighting for Hope over Despair

      Nicole Johnson Live II (video):

      Stepping into the Ring

      www.freshbrewedlife.com

      DROPPING your

      ROCK

      Choosing Love over Judgment

      9781401605322_INT_0005_001

      Nicole Johnson

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      © 2002 BY NICOLE JOHNSON

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

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      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a

      registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Scripture quotations noted NIV® are from the Holy Bible: New International Version®.

      Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society.

      Used by permission

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