Free of Me by Sharon Hodde Miller

Our me-centered culture affects every area of our lives--our relationships, calling, self-image, even our faith--and it negatively impacts each one. The self-focused life robs our joy, shrinks our souls, and is the reason we get stuck in insecurity.

In Free of Me, Sharon Hodde Miller invites us into a bigger, Jesus-centered vision--one that restores our freedom and inspires us to live for more. Drawing from personal experience and Scriptural insight, Sharon helps readers understand how self-focus sabotages seven areas of our lives, and learn four practical steps for focusing on God and others.

I just read this book as the start of this new year and I couldn't think of a more fitting way to begin the year. This book was a great reminder of how to turn our like a focus away from ourselves and turn it to the place it really belongs, God. I appreciated her relatable personal stories and practical tools to help me focus on God. It is a book I think I will be reading regularly to help keep my focus in the right play.

Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.

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