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Chrystie Cole brings two decades of ministry experience and her own story of brokenness and redemption to her work as a writer and Bible teacher. She authored Redeeming Sexuality, A Woman's Words, and Body Matters studies and co-wrote Shame: Finding Freedom with her friend, Ruthie Delk. She is the founder of The Wholehearted Project, where she creates resources to help believers engage their stories with curiosity and kindness, encounter Jesus as the compassionate Savior who skillfully mends all that is broken, and experience hope, healing, and freedom. She and her husband are empty-nesters currently living aboard their sailboat, Remedy. ...more

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	A Woman's Words: Getting to the Heart of Our Speech 4.32 avg rating — 59 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redeeming Sexuality 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redeeming Sexuality: Inviting God to Mend Our Fractured Hearts 4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body Matters: A Biblical Understanding Of the Body and Why It Matters In An Age Of Discontent: A Study From Ezer 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Las palabras de una mujer: Descubre el corazón del diálogo femenino 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I’ve spent a lot of my life running from things: insecurity, uncertainty, fear, conflict. Most of all, I was running from myself. My interior life—the thoughts and feelings that shaped my view of God, myself, others, and the world around me—was like being in one of those houses of mirrors at a carnival, where everything is disfigured and distorted.

As a teenager who felt powerless over much of

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From Genesis to Junia: An Honest Search for What the Bible Really Says About Women in Leadership

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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.”
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“Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.”
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