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Kindalee
Pfremmer De Long,
PhD, MA
Pepperdine University
Associate Dean of Seaver College
Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Religion
The Creator intends to set humanity free from oppression (Luke 4:18-19). Long Live Love takes an unflinching look at this promise in the context of generational trauma. With wisdom born of training and experience, Rena Roberts recounts the compelling story of how God used community, therapy, and disappointment to set her free from dysfunctional familial patterns. This honest and courageous spiritual memoir will inspire readers to embrace fully God's promises of freedom, forgiveness, and spiritual intimacy.
Jessica
Nagler Lowenstein,
M.A., LMFT
Psychotherapist, spiritual teacher,
and award winning author of
Jun Q'anil: One Who Walks the Way
In Long Live Love, Rena Roberts displays her full vulnerability, strength, and wisdom as she takes us on her healing journey and her ever-deepening relationship with God to release from bondage and find greater personal freedom and peace. She gently and skillfully invites us to examine our own lives and how we, too, might live and act with less fear and more love, something the world desperately needs more of right now.
Wayne Jacobsen
Host of The God Journey
Author of He Loves Me and
co-author of The Shack
Long Live Love is a triumphant story about escaping generational trauma through the freedom Jesus offers us. By sharing the honesty of her struggle out of her toxic family system, Rena Roberts demonstrates the courage and wisdom it takes to confront her past, rewrite her story, and find new patterns of relationship that will serve her well in the future. She is both a skilled therapist and a trauma overcomer, and her vulnerability and wisdom combine to encourage and enlighten you. This book is a valuable tool to help people break the cycle of dysfunction in their past and set a new course for generations to come.
Pastor Josh Epstein
Castle Rock Community Church, CO
Long Live Love is a must-read for those looking to genuinely walk in the newness of life that Christ promises to the redeemed. Written with an inviting vulnerability of the personal work of the Spirit of God in her own life, Rena Roberts candidly shares the simple, yet often overlooked, key to experiencing joy in the midst of fear. I would recommend this book to any and all who desire to see forgiveness lived out as the ever-resounding legacy of Christian faith and liberty in a culture that so desperately needs what only Christ can give.
Pastor Barbara Huston
Daughter of the King
Kingdom Streams Church
Rena is one of the most genuine people I know. Her vulnerability is refreshing! She demonstrates, with beauty and grace, the depth of the riches of following the wisdom and knowledge of God, even when you don't understand His ways. For someone who desires to learn how to gain freedom through a relationship with Jesus, this book will provoke deep soul-searching exercises that will help you draw closer to the heart of Abba.
Pastor Jim Dixon
Church of Shaver Lake, CA
This candid, personal testimony of Rena's journey in life is very interesting and open. Surrendering to Christ and His Word as Lord of our lives is where true freedom can be found. Rena and Jeff's family life show this journey through the challenges they have overcome by the Power of God's grace and the help of the Holy Spirit. May it be an encouragement to all on that Journey.
Carolyn Costin
The Carolyn Costin Institute
Author of 8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder
I had the great pleasure of working with Rena Roberts for several years at my treatment center for eating disorders. She is an insightful and accomplished clinician and, as I told her in the past, a great writer with lots of important, intense, difficult, and transformational things to say. Rena has shown up with this and more in Long Live Love. In this book, Rena takes readers on a journey through her past as she embraces God to help her heal old wounds and break free, all while prompting readers to go on the quest with her to heal from their own. After finishing the book, I found myself once again talking to and giving to homeless people, something I had not done for quite some time. Readers looking for a deeply personal and spiritual book that beckons them to learn how to love and forgive all through connection with Holy Spirit can turn to Long Live Love for just that.
Paul Meitler
World Impact Missionary
Camp Director (2010-2020)
Oaks Camp & Conference center
Be prepared to embark on a deeply personal journey with Rena Roberts from bondage to freedom. Long Live Love shares her gripping story in an intensely personal way with refreshing transparency. Rena explores a theological understanding of her transformation, simultaneously sharing her real life, real grit, real suffering, and real freedom. She delicately yet directly challenged me to wrestle with my own hidden fears and generational issues, describing a freedom I have longed for and discarded as unattainable long ago. Rena has given me the amazing gift of hope and the biblical tools to choose freedom instead of fear. If you have lost hope, believe it can be rekindled. Approach this book with an open heart, and though the journey will not be an easy one, there is true, real-life freedom to be experienced.