No More Christian Nice Girl: When Just Being Nice--Instead of Good--Hurts You, Your Family, and Your Friends

Paul Coughlin · Jennifer D. PhD Degler

May 2010 · Bethany House

About this eBook

When passivity and false niceness don't bring the abundant life Jesus promised, some Christian women try even harder to hide behind a fragile façade of pleasant perfection. Paul Coughlin and Jennifer Degler give women the empowering message that they have options far beyond simply acting nice or being mean--if they will emulate the real Jesus Christ and face their fears of conflict, rejection, and criticism. Brimming with enlightening information, thought-provoking questionnaires, real-life stories, and biblically based teaching from both the male author of the pioneering No More Christian Nice Guy and a female clinical psychologist, this book will motivate women to allow God to transform them into authentic, powerful women of loving faith.

Ratings and reviews

This is not hard to see in the church. The fake niceness. The world is media & technology driven. We have it easy but people don't interact as much as we used to except those age groups that do. They have to be lucky to have those friendships. Not all of us have a popular bless me club. One must ask & examine themselves. This is a perverse generation. It's not going to get better. The church is not a building it's a group of believers who follow Jesus Christ not every wind of docturine or every book that comes out. This is not a huge discovery. It's been going on for a long time. We are born into a media driven i want what the jones have society. It's all fake. Just look around you. What is honest any more? Nothing because we choose what we listen and become apart of everyday. Watch the documentary the corporation put out by the cbc. That will open your eyes. I could piece it all together what's going on. Every Christian needs to wake up!

About the author

Paul Coughlin hosts a radio talk show in southern Oregon and is the author of No More Christian Nice Guy. Paul has been interviewed by C-SPAN, the New York Times, and numerous radio and television stations across the country. His articles have appeared in many publications, including New Man, Faithworks, and Ministries Today. He has also been editor of a weekly newspaper and a radio station program director. A former Christian Nice Guy, Paul is a happily married father. The Coughlin family lives in Medford, Oregon.

Jennifer D. Degler, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and life coach. A frequent speaker at women's events and marriage retreats, she also maintains a counseling practice, seeing adults, children, and couples for psychotherapy. She is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and the founder of Creating Christian Change, a life coaching enterprise that works with clients across the United States helping them to create lives they love. She has been interviewed by the Lexington Herald-Leader and local NBC and CBS affiliates as an expert in life coaching and mental health issues. Jennifer and her husband, Jeff, live in Lexington, Kentucky, with their two teenage children.