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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 4.37 avg rating — 54 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
	Redeeming Sexuality 4.40 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 4.50 avg rating — 26 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 4.32 avg rating — 19 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
	A Woman's Words: Getting To The Heart of Our Speech 4.86 avg rating — 7 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
	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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Scene from The Chosen

The ancient Jewish people were a storytelling people. When they “gathered in annual rituals to confess their faith in God, they did not formulate abstract creeds and doctrines. They told stories—stories about what God has done.”¹ It was a way of helping them remember.

This kind of communal remembering was recently featured on an episode of The Chosen, a multi-season show ba

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

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To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

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The Heritage of Anglican Theology

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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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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.”
― Richard Sibbes

tags: affliction, christianity, glory, suffering

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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.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

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