DISCO BALLS,
FARM BOOTS AND
FLARE PANTS
Courtney Smallbone is the kind of friend who throws a disco party for no other reason than to feast, dance and celebrate life. It’s the kind of celebration that involves a DJ and glow sticks. Why? Because, to quote C.S. Lewis, “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
In Technicolor Woman, she writes about the night she hosted her ’70s-inspired bash for friends and family. 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 as the gifted communicator herself. Across the 31-day devotional, she explores every shade of God’s good and perfect design for His daughters.
Technicolor Woman is an invitation to technicolor living.
It’s a call to awakening one’s truest identity and trading the false identities we accumulate over a lifetime—with the Gospel as the foundation.
Courtney serves as the friendliest 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, consecrates herself to inner transformation, orders the currencies of her life,” and the by-product of her hands’ cultivation is a life that blooms in fullness.
We live in a culture that loves to ask first, “What do you do?” instead of a deeper question, “How did God create you?”
In a culture that works from the outside in with a dash of fear and hustle, it’s Courtney’s desire to live from the inside out with joy and peace.
The consecration acts of our soul are what truly overflow to how we spend our currency of life—our time, money, energy and focus. Those choices then supercharge our everyday lives in what we create and produce.
What we find at the end of that is true renaissance.
Courtney’s happy place is found inside the root systems of identity and transformation, and she loves to help women cultivate their souls so that they can flourish.
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 expression. With Technicolor Woman, she hopes to trade the lies and lesser things for discovery of true love and 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 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.”
Courtney pairs a dash of retro sparkle with farm boots and 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 in her field or traveling with her husband’s band, you’ll find her raising cattle and raising kids on a farm in Columbia, Tennessee.
