DISCO BALLS,
FARM BOOTS AND
FLARE PANTS
Courtney Smallbone is the kind of friend who throws a disco party on Good Friday. The kind of celebration that involves dancing and glow sticks and laughter and confetti — all for the pure pleasure of the moment. Because, to quote C.S. Lewis, “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
She writes about the night she hosted her ’70s-inspired bash for friends and family in Technicolor Woman. A spunky straight shooter, Courtney fills the pages of her first book with real-time truth bombs, laugh-out-loud anecdotes and Scripture-backed lessons that are as vibrant and feisty as the gifted communicator herself. Across the 31-day devotional, she explores every shade of God’s good and perfect design for His daughters — a timely topic that arrives at a point in history when feminism blankets the headlines.
“We are in an identity crisis as a nation,” Courtney observes. “If our identity is stolen and tampered with, then we don’t know how to live. When we don’t know how to live, we are utterly lost, and the generations that come after us are as well.”
Technicolor Woman is a roadmap to finding one’s truest identity and untangling the lies of religion, with Courtney serving as the friendliest, sassiest and kindest of guides. “The Gospel is the foundation of Technicolor Woman,” she explains. “True life comes from death. We die to ourselves; we come alive in the Spirit. We trade our brokenness for His explosive joy, our loss for His gain, and our sin for His purity and holiness.”
So what defines a “technicolor woman”? According to Courtney, this brilliant light of a woman is “one who knows who she is, and in her fullness, engages her life and the people around her; and the byproduct causes others to come into their full color.”
As a mother to four children, including a daughter, Courtney felt compelled and divinely inspired to write a book that helps women of all ages and stages step into their distinct calling and live out the spectrum of their unique God-given purpose. With Technicolor Woman, she hopes to dismantle the lies the enemy whispers and help women discover freedom in Jesus. In a culture that tells women who they should be, Courtney wants to tell women who God already says they are.
“Women have an important, powerful place in the Kingdom of God. I want them to know they are deeply loved by God, able to bloom into their identity, and free from twisty lies and heavy burdens Jesus never placed on them,” she asserts. “My passion is for women to know who they are and to occupy that space in their lives for the glory of God.”
Confident in her identity and never afraid to pair a dash of sparkle with a well-worn set of farm boots, Courtney is fervent about living a life that’s all in. As an author and speaker, her greatest desire is to come alongside women and help them move from living in black and white to living in full color. She’s married to Luke Smallbone, one-half of GRAMMY®-winning duo FOR KING + COUNTRY. When she’s not writing, sipping coffee on her front porch or traveling with her husband’s band, you’ll find her raising cattle and raising kids on a farm in Columbia, Tenn.
