Experience the Uplifting Power of Standing Firm in a World of Compromise with Beautiful Resistance

Paul H. Pompa: Overall good read. Seemed to suggest merit to intersectionality, which is antithetical in many ways to the gospel. He seemed to hone in on ethnocentrism committed by people with little melanin committed against people with more melanin, but not the other way around. He quotes someone critical of the right, but didn’t balance it with criticism of the left. Lots of great insight.

United States on Apr 05, 2022

Amazon Customer: Beautiful book!! I cannot express enough how much I loved this book. We actually chose this book for the December selection of our Apologetics Book Club. This was the very first time we have ever had a book resonate with every single person in the group. Everyone there said they felt like they had come out of reading the book different than when they started it. One of the members said that as they were reading it, they kept asking themselves who had the nerve to choose this book for our group because of the impact it was having on her as she read it. We are going to revisit the book in the summer and go through the book again with the study guide.

United States on Dec 20, 2020

Bruce Ratzlaff: There are solid points to consider. It’s academic in presentation yet personal and real. It covers a broad range of issues, so are likely to resonate for you.

Canada on Oct 29, 2020

Fosters: Timely, relevant, important, refreshing, challenging. An excellent read that will encourage and convict, motivate and challenge. Written by a pastor in the grind of living this out and bringing a church along with him. A humble, honouring, passionate servant of God. Read this book.

Canada on Sep 24, 2020

Natalie: Feeling a sense of malaise or discouragement with the world and especially the church? This book will light a match in the furnace of your soul. Loved it.

Canada on Aug 16, 2020

katelyndover: This book is written with such compassion toward the world we are living in right now. Jon has a way of putting words and research behind the troubling truths that the world is presenting to people of faith--then giving practical ways to draw closer to God and bring His love and peace back to a world that every day seems to need it more. This book is challenging in the best way possible--resonating with the many needs in our world but providing steps to bring meaningful change. Beautiful Resistance is also the most timely book I've ever read. In an interview I heard that it was written a year ago and yet it speaks to all the issues 2020 has thrown at us thus far. This is the first review I've ever written and I tend to be super picky about books so on the flip side I rarely recommend them without a caveat--but this book is a gem and one I am comfortable putting my full endorsement behind!

United States on Aug 14, 2020

H T Warrell: Just put down this incredible read. It’s a message so necessary to the moment we the church and believers find ourselves in right now. Disciplines and rhythms we need to grapple as we stand as salt and light for this world. Absolutely recommend.

Also such intentionality on the group study scheme at the end, both for personal growth and for working through the book as a group.

United Kingdom on Aug 12, 2020

ChristinaChristina: Almost 2 years ago my best friend introduced me to Jon Tyson’s Controversial Jesus series via podcast. This began a journey that literally changed my life. As a long time follower of Jesus, I had been living my life with a complacent faith that acknowledged Jesus as Lord but never fully surrendered my time and energy to Him. As I began to listen to Jon speak about the power of the Holy Spirit it gave me a desire to know Jesus in a deeper way. I wanted to experience the fullness of Christ and impact the kingdom! I wanted to be known by Jesus, to partner with Him and stop standing on the sidelines of my own life. I went all in and Jesus transformed my marriage, my family and is now transforming our community through a prayer gathering that has started in our home. Our community has been contending for revival and awakening and it all started when I began listening to this “charismatic guy from Australia” :)

Fast forward several months and I hear about JT’s new book Beautiful Resistance. I ordered it as soon as I could and devoured it! I’ve already shared it with my pastor and several other Jesus people. We’re hoping to use it this fall for our community group. It...

United States on Aug 11, 2020

Carlin Trammel: Jon Tyson has a great talent for presenting the Bible and practicing the way of living as God calls us to in an accessible and inspiring way. His framework for this book is to look at a celebrated way of modern culture and compare that to a concept that has been often overlooked and undervalued in modern American Christianity.

Living out the practices called out in this book is going to further align the reader with Christianity as described biblically. With most books, these concepts would be dumped on the reader and then they’d be left to figure out how to apply it, but this book comes with a 50-page study guide inside. Working through this guide on your own or, even better, with others, will help you put infuse these ideas into your daily living.

This book paints a picture of what transformed living looks like. I long to see readers of this book inspired to change and then become agents of change in their own communities.

United States on Aug 11, 2020

LH: Absolutely phenomenal work from Pastor Jon. Highly recommend to those seeking to lead people deeper and closer to Jesus in our current cultural moment of upheaval and turmoil in the West. The vision that Pastor Jon puts forth is saturated in the Spirit of God speaking to us through Scripture and through the lives of saints who have gone before the Church. Pastor Jon encapsulates Bonhoeffer's vision of true community and courageous discipleship to Jesus in bold and practical ways that will deepen your relationships with others and most importantly, relationship and joy with Jesus. 12/10

United Kingdom on Aug 11, 2020