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Many of us experience shame on a regular basis. We compare ourselves to others and feel deficient. We look at our pasts and hope no one will find out what we've done--or what was done to us. We doubt and isolate ourselves in light of previous rejection or failure. Our shame is unpleasant, even paralyzing. But there is hope for shame-filled souls! Our Savior willingly sacrificed everything--even died--so that shame would not have the final say in your life. Now he empowers you to change. Writing both as a biblical counselor and fellow struggler, Esther Liu takes us on a thirty-one day journey to discover lasting comfort. Explore the depths of God's grace for you; respond to Christ's invitation to rest; and use practical action points, reflection questions, and devotional insights to reshape your instinctive responses to God, others, and yourself.

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Do you ever feel less-than in some way? Not enough? Are there are parts of your life you keep hidden from others because of what might happen if they really knew you? Do you find yourself on a treadmill of performance trying to compensate for your weaknesses? If so, you've come to the right place! In this honest and beautifully written book, Esther Liu serves as a trustworthy and humble guide for fellow strugglers who yearn for freedom from the shackles of shame. With care and compassion, she walks the reader through a deeper understanding of the multifaceted experience of shame and points repeatedly to its glorious reversal in our lives through our shame-bearing Savior, Jesus Christ.--Michael R. Emlet, Dean of Faculty and Counselor, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF); Author, Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners Esther Liu tenderly holds out God's heart for the shame-filled who are unsure if his love extends to them. Shame: Being Known and Loved is filled with inviting passages, practical reflections, and precious stories of Esther's struggle with shame. If you wrestle with shame, you will feel known and cared for by Esther as she invites you into the hope that Jesus will meet and help you amid your struggle.--Darby A. Strickland, Counselor, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF); Author, Is It Abuse? In this 30-Day Devotional by Esther Liu, we have a profound invitation to begin and enter into the painful territory of shame. As an Asian American ministry leader, the dynamic of honor and shame culture is pervasive and this devotional provides a pathway that invites the reader through a depth of reflection forged by the author's resilience as a fellow traveler. The book is a much-needed balm of companionship on the often lonely struggle through shame. Liu provides the promise of authentic hope as she captures with pinpoint precision the pervasive voice of shame and the perfect Christ who absolves and restores us from the verdicts we often place upon ourselves and by others. The devotional illuminates the moral burden of existing on this side of heaven--the daily battle of our hearts that is infused with existential dread--but also its within the confines of these conflicts we find ourselves in the already not yet. Liu's voice declares with empathy and authority that this feeling of being forever trapped by the voice of shame that condemns us for feeling shame is overcome by the grace and love that is found in Christ. The devotionals read like an imitate epistle for a fellow traveler with doses of empathetic confessionals that gets to our hearts because it articulates perfectly what many pilgrims have been haunted by and have been thinking but have been afraid to say aloud. Liu with a beautiful restraint bring us to the depth of God's love and inimacy towards our defense towards the verdict of shame. Reading this beautiful, unveiling devotional, I found myself--Ultimately, filled me with the a sense of solidarity with those who came before us in the narrative of scripture and now has found allow those mixtures of voices shame and honor towards the power of the cross that shows the fullness of God's immeasurable response to our shame. This devotional exposes and testifies to the resilience of shame but also vividly shows the power of confronting wounds and exhorts to us towards the the healing that awaits us in Christ. As you end the devotional in 30 days, the reader craves more of these words not to escape from our shame but to confront it.--Peter Ong, Program Manager for Community Engagement, Redeemer City to City; Ministry Director, Living Faith Community Church (PCA) There are certain experiences which seem common to us all regardless of our background, and shame is one of those. From the big to the small, Esther Liu gently helps the reader push into the dark and hard spaces of our lives for the purpose of bringing us closer to our Savior. If you or someone you love has struggled with shame, you will be helped and equipped to bring the tender truths of Scripture that Esther has so helpfully compiled. It has already ministered to my soul, and I'm eager to see how her work will be used to help others know the love and nearness of Christ.--Jonathan D. Holmes, Executive Director, Fieldstone Counseling You can enter this devotional with a sense that you are worthless--and who doesn't feel that way?--or it can be more pointed, you are disgusting. Either way, open this and read the first two days. You will, like me, keep reading.--Edward T. Welch, Faculty and Counselor, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF); Author, Shame Interrupted

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Esther Liu is a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF).

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