CONTROLLED BURN - Dexterity

Rising From the Ashes to Forge and Unshakable Faith

BY BROOKE MARTIN

What if life’s fires can not only be controlled but can also spur new life? In Controlled Burn, Emmy-winning news anchor and reporter Brooke Martin helps readers navigate their own fires with purpose and emerge stronger than before.

Confronted with a fatal diagnosis for their unborn baby girl, Brooke Martin and her husband faced an unimaginable choice, grappling with how to move forward amid a sea of unanswerable questions. Yet, in the midst of unspeakable grief, Brooke’s faith and vulnerability not only laid the foundation for her own healing but also for a global movement toward resilience and recovery.

Controlled Burn: Rising From the Ashes to Forge an Unshakable Faith weaves together invaluable advice, spiritual insights, and raw truths learned from Brooke Martin’s greatest trials, offering readers guidance to walk through life’s fires and come out unburned. Whether in pregnancy, the workplace, marriage, or otherwise, we are bound to experience suffering in life. How we respond can be the difference between our destruction and our growth.

In Controlled Burn, Brooke Martin will guide readers in:

healing and moving forward after tragedy or hardship.
gaining a better understanding of their natural talents and gifts.
listening for God’s voice in times of adversity and recognizing suffering as an invitation to grow closer to Him.
shifting their perspective of pain into a period of self-growth.
discovering how to use their own experiences to help others in similar circumstances.

Controlled Burn proves that miracles can happen when we are willing to surrender ourselves to God and walk into the fire with faith.

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Product Details

Publisher: Dexterity (August 20,2024)
Length: 240 pages
Trade Paper ISBN: 9781962435109
eBook ISBN: 9781962435116
Audiobook ISBN: 9781962435123

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About the Author

BROOKE MARTIN is an Emmy-winning anchor and reporter originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For fifteen years, Brooke told the community’s stories and asked the hard questions of those in charge. From an Oval Office interview to a conversation with a neighbor who just lost their job, Brooke has had a front-row seat to both the impressive and the important stories that make up our lives.

But none impacted her more than her own. Shortly after announcing her second pregnancy on air, Brooke and her husband received a fatal diagnosis for their daughter, Emma Noelle. For six months, Brooke carried their daughter while publicly walking through grief and ultimately loss.

Brooke is now working to show others how life’s fires have the ability to bring new growth, greater beauty, and everlasting hope. Sign up for her free resource, Proof + Prayer, sent straight to your inbox at MoreWithBrookeMartin.com.

Brooke lives in Zionsville, Indiana, with her husband, Cole, and her two children, Max and Marlowe. You can find them at their church, Antioch Indy, or biking on one of Zionsville’s beautiful trails. Controlled Burn is her first book.

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Reviews and Endorsements

“Brooke and Cole walked through their inferno of grief so beautifully. I closely witnessed their journey of Emmanuel—a birth of a holy fire of faith—as they were transformed and ignited to live on a mission for the kingdom without the smell of smoke. Brooke’s vulnerability is a genuine invitation to sit close and invite the Holy Spirit to crack open your pain with hope for new blooms in a new season. This story of healing will quench your soul as you rest and believe in more for your life.”

—Linda Znachko, Founder of He Knows Your Name

“The truth is that, in life, we know hardship will come. The fires of life are inevitable, but when they happen to us, they are always unexpected. Filled with personal stories and Biblical truths, Brooke’s debut is masterfully written from the perspective and wisdom of someone who has survived the flames of tragedy. Controlled Burn is a must-read for anyone caught in one of life’s unexpected fires and in need of hope to make it through.”

—David Ashcraft, President and CEO of Global Leadership Network, Author of What Was I Thinking?

“It is one thing to have the status of freedom: it’s another thing entirely to experience it. Controlled Burn provides hope for the hopeless and the spiritual solution for grieving a lost one. Brooke Martin’s perspective proves that our trauma is a gift. Why does God allow bad things to happen that don’t make sense? Controlled Burn will change your understanding.”

—Michael Molthan, Founder/CEO of M2 The ROCK

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