Revived and Renovated by Victoria Duerstock and Paige Rien

 

 

Revived and Renovated: Real Life Conversations on the intersection of Home, Faith and Everything in Between by Victoria Duerstock and Paige Rien uses home renovation words to describe work both in our houses and in our personal faith lives.

Revived and Renovated is written as a conversation between Victoria and Paige. At first it took a few pages to get in to the rhythm of their conversation but once I did, it was easy to understand and follow. These two women both work with houses in real life. They are also are Christian women who can easily relate all of the words used to make houses better and apply them to their Christian lives as they seek to revive, renovate, restore , repurpose and recover with some other re words in between. 

I thought Paige and Victoria did a good job of both sharing the information related to making our houses and our home life better and making our spiritual lives better. Both women come from different spiritual backgrounds so most readers should be able to relate to them in one way or another. One woman is a relatively new believer and the other was raised in the Christian faith and had a long history of believing. There are some good helps in Revived and Renovated for making some home changes. There are also some resources if you need to make spiritual changes due to addiction of some sort since that is how one of them came to Christ. 

All in all, I would recommend Revived and Renovated. There is a lot of good information in the book, as well as Bible story and spiritual information. If I were not reviewing the book, I would want to go through it more slowly and read a word a week. It would also be a good book to do as a study with a group of women.

I received a copy of this book from the authors and the publisher through Frontgate Media. All  opinions within this review are my own. Here is a purchase link to buy the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Revived-Renovated-Victoria-Duerstock/dp/1637970080

Also, there is a giveaway: https://www.blessedfreebies.com/revived--renovated-book-giveaway.html

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