I loved reading this in tandem with 5 Love Languages because it helped me be fully immersed. I loved the writing style and layout of this book and how the love languages were held next to the Truth. A great read for bettering my relationships with people, myself and God!

Our marriage changed for the better when we started focusing on our love languages. So excited to have another book that helps us dive even deeper into strengthening our marriage!

I received an ARC from Moody Publishers, via NetGalley. This review is my personal opinion.

In this book, although short we find powerful trues about the way God loves us. Gary Smalley and R. York taking the 5 love languages and remained us we are Seen. Known and Loved. It will be great before reading the book to take time and do the quiz and learn your type of love language. I liked this book is easy to read, it could be a great gift for a friend, it doesn’t matter if you are new or maybe an old believer. I know we all can relate to the struggles of being invisible, not being loved for who we are, and not known. I also like that in this era where social media every day is more and more important both authors focus on what matters and stay forever, the unchanging and perfect love of God.

I would describe it as a companion to The 5 Love Languages. In this book, Chapman and Moore accomplish their goal of assuring the reader that God loves them. You are seen. You are known. And you are loved. A powerful message indeed during turbulent times. The references are current, such as the impact of social media on how we feel we are seen, known, or loved.

God's love is an invitation to us to find our deepest sense of identity and worth in the context of a relationship with Him. The great thing about love languages is that they work both ways. No matter what our primary love language is, God is loving us in many ways, and we can respond to God in kind.

My husband and I did a couples bible study of the love languages. It opened our eyes in how to love each other and how we can bring life into our communication. This short book goes thru each of the 5 love languages in how God loves us. I was happy to see how our own love language can be damaging to our relationship but how God redeems those extremes and hurt. Usually those extremes are born from insecurities, misunderstanding, and lack of communication. God so much wants to communicate with us about love because he is LOVE.

Maybe you struggle with love. How to receive and give. Receiving is just as important as giving. We cannot give love properly if we have not received it properly. The love language of God helps in that direction. How do I receive love from God so I can love others well. It is a question that is never fully answered and is a life process. This text helps and is a great resource to that process.

A Special Thank you to Moody Publishers and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

#Seen Known Loved by Gary Chapman and R York Moore is a Christian Living book. Gary is an author, speaker and counselor. Gary is the author of The 5 Love Languages® series and the director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc. Gary Travels the world presenting seminars, and his radio programs air on more than 400 stations. R York Moore is also an author. We each can feel more connected to others with our love language. This is our way of communicating and connecting with others. When we know our love language we can learn how to connect more with God and others. This book helps the reader develop a deeper connection with God. It is often hard for people to connect with God and if we use their suggestions We will feel more connected with God and grow more in our Christian life. The book is a great resource for Christian counselors, pastors, and any Christian. It is practical and helpful. The insights are very good. Thank you to the publisher, netgalley, the author for allowing me to read and review this book. It is well written and so helpful for Christians today. the opinions are my own.

Skip it. Self-promotional and on the surface, this short book (less than 100 pages) doesn't add to the conversation about the Five Love Languages. You'd be much better off just reading the Five Love Languages book, if the topic interests you.

In addition, there are several generalizations and statements with no data or additional information provided, and this feels problematic as a reader. Here's an example from page 33: "The people who are most driven toward justice often don't think a lot about love, and people who are all about love aren't usually the people who are marching in our streets or fighting systemic injustices." There's no information provided to back this up, and it feels like a gross generalization.

A look at the five love languages, a brief intro as to how each displays when it’s needs aren’t and are being met, and how our dominant love language impacts our relationship with God.

This is a quick and easy read with some practical suggestions about how to deepen your relationship with God based on your dominant love language. The book is written so it is approachable for people who have been Christians for years or those who have no idea who God is but may be curious. I can see this book being very helpful for people who feel a disconnect in their relationship with God as it may help give them ideas of how to make their time with God more meaningful.

I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

It's a really, really short book? 95-ish pages--at least based on the contents page of this e-ARC. My Kindle says its 51 minutes long (at my average reading speed), so more like a booklet.

Seen. Known. Loved: 5 Truths About God and Your Love Language rides on Chapman's earlier 5 Love Languages book(s), relating each love language to an expression of God's love. Although he (they?) explains a little bit about the five love languages in the first chapter, passing familiarity with the concept helps. I've never read any of those earlier books, but they're referenced enough in popular culture that I kinda know what they are. There's also a website quiz to discover your love languages that they refer you to.

Seeing that this rides on a whole series of books, I don't know that it presents anything new, other than that they tie it back to how you can receive and relate to God's love in each of the five love languages. While Chapman and York do quite well relating the five love languages back to God's love, I think the Physical Touch analogies kinda fail a little.

Overall, the book probably works more as a devotional or study group discussion to, uh, "unpack" the truths. Each chapter starts with a narrative, explaining the relevant love language with both generic (secular) stories and Christian ones (either current or from the Bible). The chapter closes with a "Refocus" section that directs you back to the God stuff and has either reflection questions or action items. On the other hand, coming from an angle of one who has been in church all her life, it reads rather evangelistic at points. Browsed again; based on the number of "if you have never", this book seems targetted at non-believers, or as church people would say, pre-believers.

Conclusion: this book is probably for people who already LOVE the 5 Love Languages brand and want to know how to relate it more to their lives or people who are trying to figure out this "God's love" thing.

Note: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Northfield Publishing via Netgalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Seen.Known.Loved by Gary Chapman and R. York Moore is another approach into the 5 Love Languages. The 5 Love Languages were created by Gary Chapman and these love languages give insight into how we can and receive love in our lives. In this book, the authors explore relationships within these 5 love languages. The authors also explored how our love language determines how we can have a love relationship with God. The authors share their personal experiences of their own journey with God and use Scripture to gain more insight into whom God created us to be and the love relationship He wants with us.

I would recommend this book as it contains new insights into how to connect into a love relationship with God. This book gives a new perspective on how we can deepen our relationship using our love language.

If you read the Five Languages, this is a great companion read. I tend to find a lot of books like this one to be repetitive but this book is just the right length to get the message across. It’s a quick read that you can read in a day. I enjoyed that this book discusses how our love languages relate to our relationship with God. There was some good insights that I picked up while reading this book.

I really enjoyed this. Thought provoking and reassuring. I look forward to reading more from the author.

Many of you are familiar with The Five Love Languages made famous by Gary Chapman. In this comprehensive and compact read, only 6 chapters long, and less than 100 pages, these five love languages are related to our relationship with God, and how we can use the ways that we show, give, and receive love to worship the one who loves us most and best.

A fairly easy read, I enjoyed the more faith centered premise, though I did feel that perhaps it was written with more new Christians in mind, I did enjoy this concise reminder.

Easy to read, straightforward and simple, it still packs a punch.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions are my own.

I am familiar with the love languages and have read other books about them, but this book did not sit well with me. I thought the concept was interesting but it fell flat. This book felt very “me-centric” and about how to feel loved by God. I felt like it was more about how I feel and what is there for me than a focus on glorifying God. I didn’t appreciate that focus and felt like it pulled away from the gospel leading toward a life to glorify God. There are some nuggets that may help some people but this is not a book I would recommend to someone.

Thank you Net Galley for allowing me to read this in exchange for my honest review.

"Seen. Known. Loved," is a short, tuned up adaptation of Gary Chapman's "The Five Love Languages" written by Chapman and R. York Moore.

This short book covers the love languages in terms of relationship not just with others, a spouse, a parent, a close friend, but also our relationship with God. It was God after all who created us out of his love. He also is the only one who truly loves us unconditionally, no matter what.

I found this new "spin" on an enduring concept to be insightful with new examples and passages of Scripture. I felt like this would be a great gift for a friend or family struggling with their relationship with God, or even someone who is curious about what a relationship with God even means.

This was worth the read. I learned some new things. I was encouraged.

I received this eBook free of charge from Northfield Publishing-Moody Publishers via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. I did not receive any fiscal compensation from either company for this review and the opinions expressed herein are entirely my own.

First sentence: WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? MANY OF THE PEOPLE WE ENCOUNTER are looking for more out of life. They are looking for meaning—for a purpose for existence. They want to sense that their life has value. They want to be connected to others and work together to make the world a better place. In short, they want to love and to be loved. Both of us have met hundreds of people who have shared their struggles in life with us. Most have a history of broken relationships. Beneath all of these struggles is the cry for love.

Seen. Known. Loved. is a little book just perfect for readers who have worn out their copies of any of the 5 Languages books previously published in the past few decades. It applies the 5 Languages technique to "help" readers find a way to connect with God. This is what it says in the introduction, "What can we learn about God through the five love languages? How can we connect with His love—so we actually feel it? That is what we are exploring in this little book."

I'll be honest: I found this book to be a little unnecessary. I will agree that YES people need to feel seen, feel known, feel loved. And I will agree that YES God is a God who SEES, a God who KNOWS, and a God who LOVES. But what does "Gary Chapman's 5 Love Languages" have to do with the gospel?! Very little in my estimation.

The book is not clearly written enough to be a gospel presentation for nonbelievers, for so-called seekers. It introduces you to Chapman's 5 Love Languages and presents a couple of verses here and there to show that God has love languages too. That he is "communicating" to us in love languages as is evidenced in the Bible. But the emphasis seems to stay on the 5 Love Languages. And it never really explains or answers what a gospel presentation should. Who Jesus is. What he came to do. Why Jesus died. How he saves us. What he saves us from. What he saves us to. No, the emphasis is YOU ARE LOVED. YOU ARE WORTHY.

Okay. Maybe the target audience isn't unbelievers or seekers. Maybe the target audience is Christians. Maybe the assumption is that the target audience doesn't need to know the gospel, hear the gospel, reconnect with the gospel. It's a silly assumption since we should preach the gospel to ourselves daily, because daily we need reminders. But maybe the book is written for those that are so well-versed in the gospel that it would be a waste of time to go there. If that is the case...is the book one that satisfies?! Maybe. Maybe not. The book is redundant to anyone who regularly reads their Bible. To those who know their Bibles, the idea that God is a God who SEES, KNOWS, LOVES is nothing new. These essential doctrines are to be loved, treasured, hoped upon, lived and experienced. But this book doesn't celebrate these foundational doctrines of historic Christianity so much as proclaim how they fit into the 5 Languages program.

Quotes:
"Through your mobile device, you can read God’s words to you and experience love and companionship in a way you may never thought possible. Most people are not Bible readers, but studies have demonstrated the fact that regular Bible reading reduces stress, produces peace, and helps people live lives of love and appreciation. Why is that? Simply because there is a power in the words of God’s affirmation to us in the Bible that we cannot substitute with words from other people."
"When we hear words of affirmation coming out of our own mouths back to God, it helps us truly receive God’s words to us. And it will help us to feel more love and give more love."