( received complimentary copy for review )

While I read thru this title quicker than I would have liked, it was only because I was reading it to review. The journey ended far too soon, and this has been placed at the top of my to-be-read list. Absolutely loved my first experience with this book, and cannot wait to go back to it for a life-changing re-read.

This book gets to you right from the beginning. I love how laid back the author is. I had never heard of her before requesting this book for review but I did a search on her and loved what I found.

Jones’ writing is a great reflection on her author picture. Spunky and straightforward with a flair for the telling it like it is. I loved this easy read that is laid out in a way you can work on the work, mini chapter by mini chapter.

And that is what she is calling us to do. Work on yourself. Reinvent what we want, dream for, and desire, with God’s promise behind our request and reinvention.

Jones uses awesome stories and parables to support her teachings and walks you through this map to redemption. I love it! Simple yet profound. Perfect for home life, work, and our spiritual well being.

In Reinvent, Beth Jones begins the book by defining the word reinvent and this basically means to change something that make it look new. Beth is a preacher at Valley Family Church and has noticed that many people are struck in life and they are ready to reinvent their lives. In the book, she shared her personal story of her parents divorcing, enduring bullying in school, feeling rejected, overcoming cancer, and how she dealt with her dreams shattered. She also shared how she walked to church and found out who God is and how she suffered persecution from being the first believer in her family. She opened up about how God has reinvented her own life and changed it for the better.

In the first part of the book, she looked at four reasons to reinvent your life and this included, “the gaps, crossroads, future, and love.” One of my favorite area she looked at was when she discussed gaps and how we need to explore our spiritual fruit in our life. She looked at the parable of the fruitless tree and one of the verses that stands out was found in Luke 13:8. This talks about how Jesus tells a man to leave the fig tree alone for a full year and he is instructed to dig around it and fertilize it. She was encouraged by this parable and she challenged believers to focus on one or two areas that they want to reinvent in their life. She created a list to display and show how some famous people lives changed in one year. Some of these included: Tina Fey, Oprah, Stephen King, Harrison Ford, Martha Stewart, Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, and much more.

In the second part of the book she looked at 4 questions, “what do you want, what do you have, what will you do, and why will you do it.” She explored the whole story about the Maven by going into detail and looking at the four questions. She is recently widowed with two sons and she is in a great debt. She is about forced to sell her sons as slaves to repay the debt owed. Elisha asked her what does she have and all she has is a jar of oil. She is told to go borrow a few empty vessels and come back and shut the door and pour the oil into them. Then she must go sell them to repay the debt and they will have enough to live on the rest. Beth goes back and retells the story in her own words and adds the key words from part one into her recap to explain it to readers.


I would recommend this awesome book to anyone who is ready to reinvent their life. I immensely liked how open Beth was about her story and I was able to easily to connect to it. I enjoyed reading about how she was able to reinvent her own life and how God has used her since. One of my favorite topics she discussed was the power of renewing your mind with the word of God. I liked how she included scriptures to encourage believers on how to do just that. These verses included topics such as favor, blessing, joy, strength, wisdom, and much more. One of my favorite verses was Isaiah 43:16 and this one discussed how God can make a way where there is no way. I also loved how she looked at the Maven story and I will admit reading her take on the story was a really powerful example. I was able to see how God is able to reinvent everyone’s story, if they will just let Him.


"I received this book free from the publisher, Faithwords for my honest review.”

Jones has written an inspiring and encouraging book to help us reach our potential. We might feel stuck and need a push to get us going to the next part of life. We might have an idea for a new career, a new ministry, or a new product and just need exciting encouragement to get going. That's what this book is all about.

Jones teaches using the foundation of Elisha and the woman in debt, found in 2 Kings 4. Lessons are drawn from the Bible story. The most surprising for me was borrowing. The woman borrowed jars from others to increase her store of the God given oil. So we can borrow from others, seeking their help, making use of their insights. Jones draws a number of other encouraging lessons from the widow's experience.

Jones also uses experiences from her own life as well as the lives of others to illustrate her teaching concepts. She asks major questions to help us hear from God and understand what He wants us to do for the next part of our life.

Readers will get plenty of inspiration and encouragement in reading this book. Jones provides good questions to help you understand what you want, assessing what you have, determining what you'll do and identifying why you'll do it. What you will not find is a clear strategy to determining how you will achieve your dream. There is nothing included about setting goals or practical concepts like that. You'll get very inspired to dream but you may have to look elsewhere to actually create a God inspired plan for your future.

I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher. My comments are an independent and honest review.

This book is somewhat uneven, but what is good is truly excellent, and I am so glad I had the chance to learn from this author. The first third of the book focuses on the reasons we might want to reinvent our lives, and I found this a bit frustrating - anyone who picks up a book on reinvention is probably already convinced. But when you get to the second part, called 4 Questions to Reinvent Your Life, that's where things get good. I was particularly inspired by her section on the small goals we sometimes overlook. Another highlight is her chapter on joy - it's one of the most convincing and enthusiastic calls to enjoy our life as a way to honor God I've ever seen, and I felt like my life got more fun as I read it.

Beth is a megachurch pastor in the Midwest, and this book presumes a great deal of understanding of American church culture. This is both a strength (if you are from this world you will feel like you've found a sister) and a weakness (some of the examples would be truly baffling to someone who is not part of Evangelical culture. Not off-putting, necessarily, just difficult to comprehend.) I wish she had used fewer hashtags & emoji descriptions, as I fear they will date this book. But with all that said, I am so glad I read it and will recommend it to others. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.