Unashamed: Drop the Baggage, Pick Up Your Freedom, Fulfill Your Destiny by Christine Caine

Shame can take on many forms. It hides in the shadows of the most successful, confident and high-achieving woman who struggles with balancing her work and children, as well as in the heart of the broken, abused and downtrodden woman who has been told that she will never amount to anything. Shame hides in plain sight and can hold us back in ways we do not realize. But Christine Caine wants readers to know something: we can all be free.

In Unashamed, Christine reveals the often-hidden consequences of shame—in her own life and the lives of so many Christian women—and invites you to join her in moving from a shame-filled to a shame-free life.

In her passionate and candid style, Christine leads you into God’s Word where you will see for yourself how to believe that God is bigger than your mistakes, your inadequacies, your past, and your limitations. He is not only more powerful than anything you’ve done but also stronger than anything ever done to you. You can deal with your yesterday today, so that you can move on to what God has in store for you tomorrow—a powerful purpose and destiny he wants you to fulfill.

Join the journey. Lay ahold of the power of Jesus Christ today and step into the future—his future for you—a beautiful, full, life-giving future, where you can even become a shame-lifter to others. Live unashamed!

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Christine Caine is perhaps one of the most powerful speakers I have ever seen in my life. My church partners with her A21 campaign, whose goal is to end human trafficking, and I recently had a chance to see her speak at church. She is an amazing woman, who has overcome many obstacles and turned her struggles into a powerful testimony.

In her new book, Unashamed, Christine takes on the giant, shame. Shame is something that we have all experienced. We experience shame because of things we have done, our shortcomings, and because of things that have been done to us. We live in a shame filled world. We are constantly criticized for how we look, what we do, what we don’t do, our race, our religion, etc. The comparison game and trying to “keep up with the Jones” is a never ending, exhausting battle. 

Living with shame can impact your entire life, your relationships and be passed down to future generations. In her new book, Christine talks about her experiences and her own battle with shame. She offers advice on how to change your thinking and begin to move towards living an unashamed life. I found the book to be a powerful testimony and an inspiring read.

2016 Reading Challenge: A book published in 2016