Christine Caine - How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way Back to God When Everything is Pulling You Away

PRAISE FOR HOW DID I GET HERE?

Its a time of upheaval. All of us feel a little shaky and Christine Caine steadies our anxious doubts. God is real. He is coming and our hope is secure. This book will bring you back to a faith that is full and alive again.

Jennie Allen, founder and visionary of IF: Gathering and New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head

Through her own deeply personal stories, Christine pours out wisdom onto her readers once again. In How Did I Get Here? she reminds us that there is a little bit of doubt in all of us, but she lovingly guides us through and encourages us to get honest with God.

Roma Downey, Emmynominated actress, producer, and New York Times bestselling author

If you know how it feels for everything around you to be okay while nothing inside you is, this book is for you. If you honestly dont want to keep going but you want to want to, this book is for you. If you need a triumphant, trauma-scarred leader to give you a glimpse of your next, Christine is the woman for the job and this book is for you. How Did I Get Here? will fill you with soul-anchoring hope. This book is for you.

Dr. Anita Phillips, trauma therapist and host of In the Light podcast

Christines book, How Did I Get Here? is like an honest conversation with a friend and mentor. Through her biblical insight and humor, she helps you recognize the patterns and areas of your life that are leading you away from the things of Godand then shows you how to shift your eyes back to him. As a personal mentor of mine, I can attest to the godly wisdom that Christine carriesand I know everyone who picks up this book will have an encounter with Jesus.

Sadie Robertson Huff, author, speaker, and founder of Live Original

Christine Caines relentless pursuit to take the hope of Jesus to the world is deeply effective in her new book How Did I Get Here? She asks intimate questions that all of our hearts know well and points the wandering soul back home with compassion and strength. We thank God for Christine and her example in our lives as a leader, activist, teacher, and follower of Jesus. This book will encourage your life profoundly!

Rich Wilkerson Jr., lead pastor of VOUS Church

Raw. Vulnerable. Honest. If youve reached a place where youve stopped hoping, stopped dreaming, or stopped praying... if things around you are flourishing and alive, but inside youre anything but, if you feel like you may bend and break, this book is a map, showing you how to put the pieces back together.

Paula Faris, journalist, author, and podcaster

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How Did I Get Here?

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Names: Caine, Christine, 1966- author.

Title: How did I get here?: finding your way back to God when everything is pulling you away / Christine Caine.

Description: Nashville, Tennesse: Nelson Books, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references.

Summary: "Bestselling author, speaker, and activist Christine Caine helps readers who are feeling weary and like things somehow arent quite right to identify how they ended up where they are and what they need to do to course-correct and anchor themselves in the only One who does not change or shift with the currents"-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020051543 (print) | LCCN 2020051544 (ebook) | ISBN 9781400226566 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781400226580 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Fortitude. | Mental fatigue--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Perseverance (Theology) | Encouragement--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Christian life.

Classification: LCC BV4647.F6 C35 2021 (print) | LCC BV4647.F6 (ebook) | DDC 248.4--dc23

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To my darling Nick,

Jesus is the anchor of my soul, especially when the wind and the waves want to take me off course, but you have been the stabilizing force in my life. I like to think of you as the gyrostabilizer of our boat as we sail through our time on this earththat engineering feat that keeps it all afloat. How many times a day, through all the years of our life and ministry together, have you kept everything running and our boat from capsizing? You, Nick, are the one who keeps it all upright, on course, and moving full steam ahead. You are the ballast of our familys life.

For this, and reasons a million more, I love you.

For this reason, we must pay attention all the more to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.