Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection (Ed Welch)

I’ve received such a gift! New Growth Press/CCEF just emailed me the manuscript for Ed Welch’s newest book, Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection.

I can’t wait to dig into it this weekend. Then, I may have the privilege of being included on its list of endorsers. But even if they don’t use my endorsement, what a joy it is to have this advanced sneak-peak! Fred and I have literally been praying for Dr. Welch specifically about this book for years now. I’m so excited that it is done and will be available soon. (You can pre-order now, but it won’t be available until April 30th. Hey! That’s just one day before Dave’s and my book, Redeeming Church Conflicts, will be published. Fun!)

Anyhoo …

In addition to running out to purchase this book (I’m saying that based on the little bit I’ve already read tonight and on the fact that Ed Welch is my favorite contemporary author, so I’m trusting that it’s going to be great!), I hope that you will also plan to attend the CCEF Conference on Guilt and Shame this fall. I’m totally bummed that finances simply do not allow me to attend this year—I’ll especially miss getting to LiveBlog the conference. (I’ve had over 7,500 replays on my CCEF LiveBlogs and I just LOVE to LiveBlog.)

With that, I’ll sign off for the night. Hope your Friday was a blessed one! We’ve had a lot of fun being in Valentine-Celebration-Mode around here … but Ella REALLY doesn’t like the sound of the mixer:

G’nite,
Tara B.