Sammy Rhodes
Sammy Rhodes, a campus minister with Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at the University of South Carolina, earned his Master of Divinity degree from Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC His popular online writing has been highlighted in HuffPost, Salon, Paste, and Christianity Today, and he frequently speaks at conferences and churches about anxiety and depression, approval, the Internet, pop culture, humor, theology, and leadership. His readers are especially responsive to his tweets about donuts.
All Books By Sammy Rhodes
Broken and Beloved
- By: Sammy Rhodes
- Narrator: Kyle Tait
- Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.36(84 ratings)
Two of the greatest fears in life come in the form of questions we often ask ourselves but rarely say out loud: “Am I okay?” and “Do you love me?”
The answer the Gospel gives us is both surprising and just what we need to hear: “No, you are not okay,” and, “Yes, I love you.”
Jesus holds these two truths about us together, and this is the good news we desperately need.
... Read moreThis Is Awkward
- By: Sammy Rhodes
- Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: March 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.92(478 ratings)
Don’t waste your awkwardness.
The most difficult subjects in our lives are also the ones that we find most uncomfortable to talk about: divorce, body image, sexuality, pornography, or depression. Our awkward silence reveals the gap that exists between what we are and what we know we should be. But God loves those awkward moments, Sammy Rhodes argues, because they are precisely where we find connection with God and one another.
In This Is Awkward, Rhodes talks directly, honestly, hilariously about the most painfully uncomfortable subjects in our lives. In chapters like “Parents Are a Gift (You Can’t Return Them)” and “The Porn in My Side,” he boldly goes where most of us fear to tread, revealing that we can be liberated by the embrace of a God who knows the most shameful things about us and loves us all the same. Because nothing is too awkward for God.
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