Unashamed: Drop the Baggage, Pick up Your Freedom, Fulfill Your Destiny

by Christine Caine

Overview

Bestselling author, speaker, and activist Christine Caine helps you overcome past guilt and live an unashamed life.

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.

“I know. I’ve been there,” writes Christine. “I was schooled in shame. It has been my constant companion from my very earliest memories. I see shame everywhere I look in the world, including in the church. It creeps from heart to heart, growing in shadowy places, feeding on itself so that those struggling with it are too shamed to seek help from shame itself.”

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!

Dive deeper into the Unashamed message with the Unashamed video study and study guide. Available now.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310340706
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	05/10/2016
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christine Caine is an Australian-born, Greek-blooded lover of Jesus, activist, author, and international speaker. Together with her husband, Nick, she founded the anti-human trafficking organization, the A21 Campaign. They also founded Propel Women, an organization designed to celebrate every woman's passion, purpose, and potential. Christine and Nick make their home in Southern California with their daughters, Catherine and Sophia.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 Schooled in Shame 15

Chapter 2 The Power of Shame 29

Chapter 3 Reaching for Freedom 47

Chapter 4 Woman on Purpose 63

Chapter 5 You Get to Choose 81

Chapter 6 The Beauty of the Wilderness 101

Chapter 7 God Moves In So We Can Move On 117

Chapter 8 He Healed My Mind 133

Chapter 9 Tear Down the Walls 149

Chapter 10 The Bungee Cord of Shame 173

Chapter 11 Your New Image 191

Acknowledgments 201

Notes 205

Editorial Reviews

04/18/2016
Caine, international speaker and cofounder of Propel Women, shares her history of being rejected, bullied, and sexually abused, and feeling that she was destined to never find a spiritual community because of her Greek heritage. She invites women from every walk of life to cast off past experiences that might have spawned an inner voice stuck within a cycle of shame and condemnation, and instead to invite Christ into their hearts. After years of abuse and spiritual neglect, Caine considers the moment at rock bottom when she felt helpless and hopeless about her life prospects before describing the levity that came from studying the Bible and discovering the welcoming love of God. Overcoming her calcified need for acceptance, she was able to reconfigure her hopeless mindset with the knowledge that God had already accepted her. Today, Caine speaks to tens of thousands of women around the world to share the gospel and guide hurting souls toward a path of healing from the inside out. Powerful and direct, her voice of advocacy shines through in every story. This book is both a dynamic confession and motivational guide for women striving to live free from past shame. (May)

Publishers Weekly

If the enemy’s weapons of choice are shame and fear, then think of Unashamed as a heavenly atomic bomb.

Steven Furtick

Shame holds us back, holds us down, and holds us hostage. But in Unashamed, Christine shows us we don’t have to let this be the reality of our lives. Her raw honesty and unwavering belief in God’s good plan is the refreshing encouragement your soul needs!

New York Times bestselling author and president of Lysa TerKeurst

In Unashamed, Christine Caine acknowledges that shame does not discriminate---it seeps into the lives of the successful as well as the downcast. But Christine shares as only she can---with great passion and authenticity---about the path away from darkness and shame. A path to freedom. God is bigger than our pasts, bigger than our mistakes. If you let it, Unashamed will transform your life and set you on a path to the abundant life God has for you.

New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Ma Mark Batterson

I memorized the verse from Romans about there being no shame or condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus when I was a little girl; unfortunately, I was still crippled by shame as a grown woman decades later. From my experience, shame is one of the most effective tools the enemy uses to oppress believers and emasculate the church. Which makes this book a MUST READ. Frankly, I encourage you to buy several cases of these puppies and pass them out to your entire community!

author and Bible teacher Lisa Harper

There’s no one better equipped than my friend Christine Caine to speak to the power of shedding shame in the lives of believers. Her words here provide a pathway to freedom from a life shaped by shame. Her sincere and strong voice will inspire you, and her own display of courage will give you strength to step fully into God’s love and grace.

Judah Smith

Christine Caine is undeniably anointed, unashamedly Christ-focused, and unguardedly real. Simply---her work is unparalleled. You---your soul---can’t afford not to read her.

New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Ann Voskamp

Of any book that Christine Caine has written, Unashamed has unmatched potential to bring deep healing into the lives of those who are broken and hurting. Each chapter is over- flowing with raw transparency, healing grace, and scriptural hope. Whether you are struggling or know someone who is, this book will build your faith and equip you to move from shame to freedom and God’s ultimate plan for your life.

senior pastor of Life.Church and author of #Strugg Craig Groeschel

Shame holds us back, holds us down, and holds us hostage. But in Unashamed, Christine shows us we don’t have to let this be the reality of our lives. Her raw honesty and unwavering belief in God’s good plan is the refreshing encouragement your soul needs!

New York Times bestselling author and president of Lysa Ter Keurst

Shame holds us back, holds us down, and holds us hostage. But in Unashamed, Christine shows us we don’t have to let this be the reality of our lives. Her raw honesty and unwavering belief in God’s good plan is the refreshing encouragement your soul needs!

New York Times bestselling author and president of –Lysa TerKeurst

In Unashamed, Christine Caine acknowledges that shame does not discriminate---it seeps into the lives of the successful as well as the downcast. But Christine shares as only she can---with great passion and authenticity---about the path away from darkness and shame. A path to freedom. God is bigger than our pasts, bigger than our mistakes. If you let it, Unashamed will transform your life and set you on a path to the abundant life God has for you.

New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Ma –Mark Batterson

Christine Caine is undeniably anointed, unashamedly Christ-focused, and unguardedly real. Simply---her work is unparalleled. You---your soul---can’t afford not to read her.

New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest –Ann Voskamp

Of any book that Christine Caine has written, Unashamed has unmatched potential to bring deep healing into the lives of those who are broken and hurting. Each chapter is over- flowing with raw transparency, healing grace, and scriptural hope. Whether you are struggling or know someone who is, this book will build your faith and equip you to move from shame to freedom and God’s ultimate plan for your life.

senior pastor of Life.Church and author of #Strugg –Craig Groeschel

Shame holds us back, holds us down, and holds us hostage. But in Unashamed, Christine shows us we don’t have to let this be the reality of our lives. Her raw honesty and unwavering belief in God’s good plan is the refreshing encouragement your soul needs!

New York Times bestselling author and president of –Lysa Ter Keurst

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