Do Something Beautiful

The Story of Everything and a Guide to Finding Your Place In It

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Pub Date 03 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 02 Jul 2018

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Description

Do you find yourself chasing “something more”?

We are people seized by longings we can’t seem to satisfy. It’s built into us—in our very bones. We were created with an innate desire to be a part of a world and a story bigger than ours. Sadly, however, most of us spend our lives blind to the fact that this story and this world are right in front of us, beckoning to us to come and play our part. We keep on with our focused, relentless pursuit of everything else and find ourselves dissatisfied.

In Do Something Beautiful, York Moore shows you how to:

  • reframe your own story and begin seeing God’s story breaking into your life in the everyday moments
  • leave behind mediocrity and be a part of that beautiful story, and
  • make your life count for something that matters.


Don’t give up on your “something more.” Chase it better. 

Do you find yourself chasing “something more”?

We are people seized by longings we can’t seem to satisfy. It’s built into us—in our very bones. We were created with an innate desire to be a part of...


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ISBN 9780802417121
PRICE $13.99 (USD)
PAGES 192

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This book helps you to understand how important it is to have the love of Jesus in your heart. Without His love nothing you do is really beautiful but when you do and see things with His love in your heart it makes all things so much better. Thank you Moody Publishers and NetGalley for the free copy of this book. This is my honest review.

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I was drawn to this new book by Mr. More. The description given “refrain from your own story and begin seeing God's story braking through in your life in the everyday moments,” is a subject of great interest to me. The author starts by telling us a personal story about an ordinary summer night when he was seven years old. Anyone that has lived East of the Mississippi has experienced this phenomenal sight, phosphorous bugs, fireflies or lightning bugs is what I knew them by. York later in the book uses the light from the firefly as evidence of something more.
“Light shines best in darkness, and so the beauty, righteousness, and community of God shine best in places of despair and need, in the muddy fields of broken lives and forgotten dreams.”
I found Do Something Beautiful a little slow at times but I gained a lot of insight from reading it. I would have given this book a 3.5 rating if I could, but I felt it was better than just a 3.
I received this book from Moody Publishing through Net Galleys. The opinion expressed in this review is completely my own.

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For meditations on things bigger than you, pick up Do Something Beautiful: The Story of Everything and a Guide to Finding Your Place In It. R. York Moore, national evangelist for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, may not cover everything, as the subtitle so boldly states, but he has a lot of nuggets for the reader to think about.

Moore calls for Christians to seek the glory of God and his beauty in the world, especially in the "times of of darkness, above the dirty, common, ugly conditions of the world." Today's Christians are rightly concerned with issues of justice, but Moore reminds us that justice is a means, not an end. "We can often do justice without embracing anyone at all, but we cannot give grace, hope, and love without embrace. . . . Justice is merely the doorway through which we must walk to get to the experienced reality of bounty."

That bounty is the beauty of the Lord. Evangelism is our call to tell of his beauty. "Sharing, liking, and re-posting the gospel is an act of beauty that can change us and change those around us. Evangelism should be like that." Evangelism is "trying to express a light from another world, an expression of beauty and wonder that is hard to put into words, . . . making known the bounty of God and inviting people to know the person of Jesus for themselves."

Do Something Beautiful is not a book to be skimmed, but to be read slowly, revisiting passages later on for deeper insight. What a reminder to dig deeper and live fuller than "a few songs and a good homily, a plastic cup of grape juice and a wafer sliver." We should live in the beauty and bounty of the Lord, remembering that "heavenly actions impact earth."

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!

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Title: Do Something Beautiful
Author: R. York Moore
Genre: Christian/Inspirational
Rating: 4 out of 5

As individuals, we are always searching for more; something bigger, better, more meaningful. No matter what we have, we want more. We want our lives to matter more, to be about more, to experience the grand, larger-than-life moments.

Do Something Beautiful shows you how to take the simple, everyday moments in your life and look at them differently, turning “ordinary” into “beautiful.”

The voice in the book is conversational, putting the reader at ease and making it feel like a chat with a friend—not an academic lecture. Anecdotes from the author’s life and stories from people he’s met bring his points to life, making this an engrossing and eye-opening read.

R. York Moore is an evangelist, a speaker, a revivalist, an abolitionist, and an author. Do Something Beautiful is his newest book.

(Galley provided by Moody Publishers in exchange for an honest review.)

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