This Is Awkward : How Life's Uncomfortable Moments Open the Door to Intimacy and Connection

Don't waste your awkwardness -- Parents are a gift (you can't return them) -- D is for divorce -- The porn in my side -- D is also for depression -- I kissed marriage hello after kissing dating goodbye -- Where friendship is born -- Calling all introverts (they probably won't pick up) -- Donuts are a whole food if you take out the W -- Tweeting ourselves to death -- Side-hugging Jesus -- An introvert's guide to surviving a party -- A social media manifesto. "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." -- Provided by publisher A supremely funny pastor to Millennials, with a massive social media following, tackles the thorniest of subjects---depression, sexuality, divorce, life online, and more---with a rare combination of uproarious, self-deprecating humor and profound, biblical truth.