Equip & Empower Podcast with Christine Caine

Christine Caine
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Christine Caine is here to activate you to live on mission for Jesus. Through God's Word and the power of the Holy Spirit, you will be awakened to God's unique purpose for your life and to lead boldly within your sphere of influence. She will equip and empower you to follow Jesus wholeheartedly, creating lasting Kingdom impact in your family, workplace, and community. If you desire to bring hope, create change, and see yourself the way God sees you, this podcast is for you. For Episode Reflection Guides and more, visit www.christinecaine.com/listen.

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 415 | Spirit-Empowered Purpose: What the Holy Spirit Actually Does In and Through Your Life

    You have been trying to do in your own strength what only the Holy Spirit can do. And you are tired. And you are running out. And you wonder why it all feels so hard. In episode nine of A Life Unleashed, Christine Caine opens Acts 2 and makes the most practical case for the Holy Spirit you will ever hear — not as a theological category or a controversial subject, but as the non-negotiable power source for every single thing God has called you to do. In this episode, Christine Caine takes us to the upper room at Pentecost with a violent rushing wind, tongues of fire, 120 people speaking in languages they have never learned and shows that this was not a one-time event for a special generation of believers. It was the inauguration of a power that is available to every follower of Jesus, in every generation, including this one. She traces the transformation of Peter, the man who denied Jesus three times to a servant girl, who was so afraid that he lied about even knowing Him. She shows what happened when the Holy Spirit came: that same Peter stood up in front of thousands and preached with such conviction that 3,000 people were saved in a single day. Nothing changed except the filling. And the same filling is available to you. Christine is honest about the abuses and misuses of the Spirit's gifts that have made many believers cautious, and she addresses that caution directly, without dismissing it. But she makes the case that caution is not the same as absence, and that the answer to counterfeit is not to reject what is real. The takeaway that will send you back into your calling and purpose differently: God has woven into the very fabric of your calling the need for Him Himself to fulfill it, and He has made sure you cannot do it without more of Him. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like… ✅ Why does living out my calling feel so exhausting and hard? Am I doing something wrong? ✅ What does the Holy Spirit actually do in a practical, everyday sense? ✅ Is Pentecost something that happened once, or is that power still available today? ✅ I've seen the Holy Spirit misused. How do I pursue what's real without being deceived? ✅ Do the gifts of the Spirit still operate today, or did they stop after the apostles? ✅ How do I get more of the Holy Spirit and what does that even mean? ✅ Why do some people seem to have a supernatural boldness and power I don't have? …then this is your episode. 💡 What you'll learn: → Why even the disciples — men who walked with Jesus for three years, witnessed His miracles, and saw Him risen — still needed the filling of the Holy Spirit before they could be effective witnesses, and what that means for you and the calling in front of you right now. → Why Pentecost was the great equalizer, how the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all flesh eliminated every hierarchy of age, gender, race, and class, and why the same Spirit that came then is the privilege of every single believer today, including you. → How to respond to the genuine abuses and misuses of the Spirit's gifts without throwing out what is real — and why the answer to excess is not absence but the pursuit of genuine, humble, fruitful empowerment by the Holy Spirit of God. A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday. 📖 Order Christine's new devotional Whom Shall I Fear? → ChristineCaine.com/Unafraid 📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish 💛 Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe + + + +  📖 Bible Study → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🎙️ Life & Leadership Podcast → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine 📲 Follow Christine on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Sep 28

    Episode 414 | Called to Be Bold: How to Live and Share Your Faith with Boldness

    Have you ever encountered something so real, so life-changing, so undeniable, that you simply could not stop talking about it? That's not enthusiasm. That's what happens when you've been with Jesus. In the final episode eight of A Life Unleashed, Christine Caine takes us to Acts 4 where Peter and John have just watched a man who couldn't walk stand up and leap, where 5,000 people have turned to Jesus in a single day, and where the most powerful religious leaders in Jerusalem have gathered to shut the whole thing down. Their verdict: these men are uneducated, untrained, and dangerous. Their observation: they have been with Jesus. In this episode, Christine Caine shows that the boldness that stunned the Sanhedrin was not the product of rhetoric, theological training, or strategic communication. It was the natural overflow of two men who had been with Jesus and could not contain what they had seen and heard. Christine Caine makes the case that this same compulsion is available to every believer, that cancel culture is not a new invention, that the church has always grown fastest under pressure, and that the most powerful testimony in the world is not an argument but a life — a healed man, standing in the room, impossible to refute. The compelling takeaway: you do not need a seminary degree or a platform to share Jesus. You simply need to be with Him. When you are, it pours out of you — and no one can stop it. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like… ✅ How do I share my faith without feeling like I'm forcing my beliefs on someone? ✅ What do I do when culture or my workplace or my family pressures me to stay silent about Jesus? ✅ How do I get the boldness to speak about my faith when I'm afraid of what people will think? ✅ Does the Holy Spirit really give me the power to do things I can't do in my own strength? ✅ Is my story — my experience with Jesus — actually enough to share, even without formal training? ✅ Why does it feel like there's more resistance to Christianity now than there used to be? ✅ How do I keep believing in miracles when everything around me is trying to explain them away? …then this is your episode. 💡 What you'll learn: → Why the boldness of Peter and John in Acts 4 was not personality or training but the direct result of being with Jesus, and what it practically means for you to prioritize that same intimacy as the foundation of your calling. → Why cancel culture, opposition, and pressure to silence Christian witness are not new threats — they are as old as the church itself, and why history shows that persecution has never eradicated the church but has always accelerated it. → Why a person with an experience is never at the mercy of a person with an argument — and how your own story of what Jesus has done in your life is the most irrefutable, un-cancellable testimony available to you. A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday. 📖 Order Christine's new devotional Whom Shall I Fear? → ChristineCaine.com/Unafraid 📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish 💛 Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe + + + +  📖 Bible Study → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🎙️ Life & Leadership Podcast → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine 📲 Follow Christine on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Sep 21

    Episode 413 | No Expiration Date: How to Keep Believing God's Promises When the Wait Feels Impossible

    You haven't given up on it officially. But somewhere along the way, you quietly stopped expecting it to happen. Maybe it's been too long. Maybe you've been disappointed too many times. Maybe your biology or your bank account or your circumstances have told you that the window has closed, and it was just easier to make peace with that than to keep hoping. But Christine Caine has a word for you from one of the most staggering stories in all of Scripture: you have put an expiration date on something God never did. In episode seven of our series A Life Unleashed, Christine Caine opens Genesis 21:1–7 and takes us on the 25-year journey between God's promise and its fulfillment — between the moment Abraham heard it and the morning Sarah held it in her arms. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like… ✅ I've been waiting on God for something for years. How do I keep believing when nothing has changed? ✅ How do I know the difference between giving up prematurely and accepting that God's answer is no? ✅ Why does it feel like God came through for others but not for me? ✅ What do I do when I've tried to make something happen in my own strength and it made things worse? ✅ Is it okay to doubt — and what does faith actually look like when you're exhausted and discouraged? ✅ How do I stop placing expiration dates on what God has promised? ✅ Can God still fulfill something He promised even when it seems biologically, financially, or circumstantially impossible? …then this is your episode. 💡 What you'll learn: → Why God's promises have no expiration dates — and how the story of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 12–21 shows that the gap between promise and fulfillment is never wasted time, even when it spans a quarter of a century. → The difference between your due date and God's appointed time — and why trying to make happen in your own strength what only God can do always adds unnecessary chaos rather than accelerating the promise. → How faith at its core is a trust journey, not an understanding journey — and how Sarah moved from the laugh of cynicism to the laugh of joy by coming to believe not that she could do it, but that God who had promised was faithful. A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday. 📖 Order Christine's new devotional Whom Shall I Fear? → ChristineCaine.com/Unafraid 📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish 💛 Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe + + + +  📖 Bible Study → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🎙️ Life & Leadership Podcast → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine 📲 Follow Christine on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Sep 14

    Episode 412 | How Jesus Calls Us to See People the Way He Does

    There are people hidden in plain sight everywhere you go. Waiting to be seen. Waiting to be known. Waiting for someone to stop scrolling long enough to notice them. The question Jesus asked Simon at a dinner party two thousand years ago is the same question He is asking every one of us today: do you see this woman? In episode 6 of A Life Unleashed, the series pivots from identity to calling, and Christine Caine shows that the two are inseparable. Because once Jesus has truly seen us, forgiven us, and welcomed us into His family, He mobilizes us to go with Him and see others. Calling is not primarily about a platform or a position. It begins with a question: can you see the people right in front of you? In this episode, Christine Caine opens Luke 7:36–8:3 and unpacks the moment Jesus turns to Simon and asks the most searching question in the room. Simon had looked at the woman all night. He had categorized her, labeled her, dismissed her. But he had never seen her. Christine draws the contrast between Simon's self-righteous blindness and Jesus's radical, costly, compassionate sight — the kind that crossed every social boundary to acknowledge a woman that no one else in the room was willing to dignify. Christine Caine is honest about what it cost her to go from looking at a poster of a missing child in a Thessaloniki airport to actually seeing her — and how that moment of seeing became A21. She names the real enemies of compassionate sight: the selfie culture that has turned the camera perpetually toward ourselves, the compassion fatigue that causes us to withdraw when the pain gets too heavy, and the busyness that lets us look at the people at our own dinner table without ever really seeing them. The takeaway that will send you back into your world differently: seeing is hard work, but we were born for this. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like… ✅ What does it actually mean to be called? Is it just for leaders and missionaries? ✅ How do I start seeing the people around me the way Jesus sees them? ✅ I feel so overwhelmed by the brokenness in the world. How do I keep caring without burning out? ✅ What is compassion fatigue and how do I know if I'm experiencing it? ✅ How do I move from passively feeling bad about injustice to actually doing something about it? ✅ Why does it feel like I'm too busy or too small to make a difference? ✅ What does the harvest field actually look like in my everyday, ordinary life? …then this is your episode. 💡 What you'll learn: → Why looking and seeing are not the same thing — what Simon's blindness in Luke 7 reveals about the self-righteous, label-driven way we categorize people rather than truly seeing them, and what it costs us when we do. → How compassion is not just an emotion but the engine of calling — why we can only sustain seeing and serving people over the long term when we are connected to the source of that compassion rather than running on passion alone. → Why calling begins not with a platform but with a posture — and how Jesus's pattern of seeing one woman at Simon's dinner table, then hitting the road again to see many more, is the exact pattern He is inviting every one of us into right now. A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday. 📖 Pre-order Christine's new devotional Whom Shall I Fear → ChristineCaine.com/Unafraid 📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish 💛 Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe + + + +  📖 Bible Study → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🎙️ Life & Leadership Podcast → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine 📲 Follow Christine on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Sep 7

    Episode 411 | You Are The Aroma of Christ: Living Out Your True Identity

    Every room you walk into, you leave a scent behind. Not the perfume you're wearing — your presence. The thing that lingers after you've left. The spiritual fragrance that people associate with your name, your home, your workplace, your family. And Christine Caine wants to ask you directly: what does yours smell like? In episode five of A Life Unleashed, Christine Caine opens 2 Corinthians 2:14–17 and unpacks one of the most sensory and surprising images Paul ever used for the Christian life: the Roman triumph parade, where priests carried incense through the streets of Rome so that every citizen could smell the victory before they ever saw it. Paul says that is exactly what we are: the aroma of Christ, diffused through us everywhere we go, to everyone we meet. In this episode, Christine Caine shows that the gospel is not only good news to the ears — it is a good smell to the nose, and God Himself can smell it. She takes us through Scripture to show that smell has always mattered to God, from Noah's offering in Genesis to Mary's perfume filling the house in John 12 to Jesus Himself, the ultimate sweet-smelling sacrifice of Ephesians 5. She makes the case that whatever is in our hearts will inevitably diffuse out of our spiritual pores and that we cannot manufacture the fragrance of Christ through behavior alone. Just as perfume is made by the pressing and crushing of flowers, the sweet fragrance of Christ comes forth in us through the very seasons of brokenness and dying to self that we most want to avoid. And she names the hard truth: not everyone will love the scent. The same fragrance that smells like life to believers may smell like death to the lost, and the temptation to dilute the gospel to make it more palatable to the world will always be there. But if you change the chemical composition, it is no longer the same aroma. The takeaway that will stay with you: our spiritual influence on other people is directly proportional to the vitality of our own intimacy with Jesus. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like… ✅ How do I make my faith feel real and visible to the people around me, not just something I believe privately? ✅ Why does it seem like some Christians have a quality about them that draws people in, while others repel? ✅ What does it actually mean to be a witness and is it something I do or something I am? ✅ How do I keep sharing the gospel when the world seems more hostile to it than ever? ✅ What do I do when following Jesus starts costing me socially or professionally? ✅ How do I let God change what's in my heart, not just my behavior? ✅ Why does brokenness and hardship seem to produce the most spiritually compelling people? …then this is your episode. 💡 What you'll learn: → What Paul meant by the Roman triumph metaphor in 2 Corinthians 2 — and why understanding Christ as the victorious general leading a never-ending procession changes how you see yourself in the middle of every hard season. → Why the fragrance of Christ cannot be manufactured through behavior modification — and how the pressing and crushing of our own flesh, not our performance, is what releases the sweet aroma of Christ in and through our lives. → Why the same gospel fragrance smells like life to some and death to others — and why diluting the message to make it more palatable to the world means it is no longer the gospel at all, and what it looks like to carry the full potency of Christ's aroma without apology. A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday. 📖 Pre-order Christine's new devotional Whom Shall I Fear → ChristineCaine.com/Unafraid 📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish 💛 Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe + + + +  📖 Bible Study → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🎙️ Life & Leadership Podcast → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine 📲 Follow Christine on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Aug 31

    Episode 410 | Identity in Community: You Belong to the Body

    You might be in the right place. You're just not sure it's enough of a place. It doesn't look like much from the outside. Nobody's watching. Nobody's applauding. It's not the position you pictured when you said yes to God. And every time you scroll through someone else's highlight reel, your place feels smaller and smaller. But Christine Caine has a word for anyone who has ever felt overlooked, underplaced, or tempted to leave, and it comes straight from 1 Corinthians 12. In episode four of A Life Unleashed series, Christine Caine opens Paul's body of Christ metaphor and makes the case that where God sets you is never accidental and what you do there is never invisible, no matter how unseen it feels. In this episode, Christine Caine walks through 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 to show that the church is not a platform system where visibility equals significance. It is a body where every ligament, every unseen muscle, every hidden part is indispensable, and where one displaced part causes the whole body to limp. She makes the case that a gift displayed outside the body has no ultimate purpose, that God doesn't need a marketing plan to find you — He goes to the place He assigned you — and that the church today is spiritually limping because too many people have either abandoned their place or are devaluing the place they're in. The takeaway that will anchor you: if you don't embrace your place, you will always feel displaced. And when God sets you in place, you cannot be displaced and you cannot be replaced. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like… ✅ How do I stay faithful in a place that feels small, invisible, or beneath what I feel called to? ✅ Why does it feel like God is using everyone else more than He's using me? ✅ Is it okay to leave where I am for something that looks like a better opportunity? ✅ What if I've been in this season longer than I thought I would be? Does that mean God has forgotten me? ✅ How do I know if I'm in the right place or if I should be somewhere else? ✅ Does what I do behind the scenes actually matter if no one ever sees it? ✅ How do I stop comparing my place to someone else's position? …then this is your episode. 💡 What you'll learn: → Why visibility does not equal significance in the body of Christ — and how 1 Corinthians 12 dismantles the hierarchy of importance that has quietly infiltrated how we think about calling, gifting, and worth. → How a single displaced ligament can immobilize an entire body — and what that means for the unseen, unglamorous place you're in right now and the people who are depending on you to stay there. → Why God doesn't find you by scanning your resume — He goes to the place He assigned you and how embracing your place with faithfulness, not visibility, is what positions you for everything God has prepared next. A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday. 📖 Pre-order Christine's new devotional Whom Shall I Fear → ChristineCaine.com/Unafraid 📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish 💛 Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe + + + +  📖 Bible Study → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🎙️ Life & Leadership Podcast → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine 📲 Follow Christine on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Aug 24

    Episode 409 | You Are a Living Letter: How Your Life Reads to the World Around You

    Most people are going to read your life long before they ever read the Bible. That means you are already a letter. The only question is whether the writing is legible — whether the people in your world can actually make out the message, or whether what they're reading in your life doesn't match what you say you believe. In episode 3 of the A Life Unleashed series, Christine Caine opens 2 Corinthians 3:1–3 and unpacks one of the most quietly confronting images Paul ever gave the church: you are a living letter, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, known and read by everyone. In this episode, Christine Caine shows that the question of Christian witness is not primarily about what we say. It's about what our lives communicate when no one is asking. She takes us into the context of Paul's defense of his apostolic authority to the Corinthian church, where his letter of recommendation wasn't a document but a community of people whose changed lives were the proof of the gospel. She makes the case that the same is true for us: every believer is a living letter sent into a specific sphere of influence (an office, a school, a street, a sports team) and we may be the only letter Jesus has sent to that exact place. Christine is honest about what makes a letter illegible and what it looks like to be deliberately, consistently readable in a world that is watching. The takeaway that will stay with you: a Christian is a walking memo from God to a lost world, so let's make sure what we're communicating is the good news of the hope of Jesus. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like… ✅ Does how I live as a Christian actually matter to people who don't believe? ✅ How do I share my faith when my actions haven't always matched my words? ✅ What does it mean to be a witness? Is that just for pastors and leaders? ✅ Why does it feel like people expect more from Christians than from anyone else? ✅ How do I live out my faith consistently when life is messy and I keep falling short? ✅ What does it look like to be sent by God into my specific context — work, family, school? ✅ How do I make Jesus visible to people who would never walk into a church? …then this is your episode. 💡 What you'll learn: → What Paul meant when he called the Corinthian believers his living letters — and why that image means every single believer, not just leaders and preachers, has been sent as God's personal letter to their specific sphere of influence. → Why legibility matters — what makes a Christian's life readable or unreadable to the watching world, and the difference between the perfection nobody expects and the consistency that actually communicates the gospel. → What the new covenant contrast between stone tablets and human hearts means for how we live — and how the Holy Spirit transforming us from the inside out is what makes our lives a credible witness to the power of the gospel. A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday. 📖 Pre-order Christine's new devotional Whom Shall I Fear → ChristineCaine.com/Unafraid 📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish 💛 Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe + + + +  📖 Bible Study → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🎙️ Life & Leadership Podcast → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine 📲 Follow Christine on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Aug 17

    Episode 408 | Your Spiritual Wardrobe: What to Put On and Take Off Now That You're in Christ

    You got a brand new identity in Christ. But are you still wearing the old clothes? Most of us know that something changed when we came to faith. What we're less sure about is what that means for how we actually live — what we put on, what we take off, and what we've let quietly stay in the closet because it still fits a little too comfortably. In episode two of our series A Life Unleashed, Christine Caine opens Colossians 3 and does what Paul does: gets practical. In this episode, Christine Caine uses the extended metaphor of a spiritual wardrobe to unpack one of the most practical passages in the New Testament. Since we have been raised with Christ, Paul says, there are clothes we used to wear that simply should not fit us anymore, and there is a brand new wardrobe hanging in the closet that most of us haven't fully tried on yet.  Christine is honest about what her old wardrobe looked like before Christ and what it meant to discover that those clothes were slowly destroying her life. She makes the case that getting dressed spiritually doesn't happen by accident any more than getting dressed physically does. It takes intentionality, daily decision, and a clear sense of who you are representing. The takeaway that will stay with you: the sin you won't kill will end up killing something else (your relationships, your peace, your witness) and through the power of the Holy Spirit, you have the agency to choose differently every single day. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like… ✅ I'm a Christian but I still struggle with the same things, is something wrong with me? ✅ How do I actually change my behavior? Is it willpower, or is there something deeper going on? ✅ What does it mean to put off the old self and put on the new self — practically? ✅ Why does setting my mind on things above actually matter for how I live down here? ✅ How do I stop being complacent about the things in my life that I know aren't right? ✅ Does how I live as a Christian actually affect people around me who don't believe? ✅ What does God's wardrobe for me actually look like, and how do I start wearing it? …then this is your episode. 💡 What you'll learn: → Why Paul starts with mindset before behavior — and how where you set your mind determines what your spiritual wardrobe actually looks like, whether you realize it or not. → The specific clothes Paul says to take off and put on in Colossians 3, why they're not arbitrary rules but a direct reflection of your new identity in Christ, and how to start wearing them with intentionality every day. → Why the sin you don't name and don't kill has a way of killing something else — and how the power of the Holy Spirit gives you genuine agency to choose a different wardrobe, starting today. A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday. 📘 Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish 💛 Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Propel Women is an initiative of the ministry dedicated to coming alongside women around the globe to activate their God-given purpose. You can tune in to her weekly Equip and Empower Podcast to be encouraged by the hope of Jesus wherever you are. Christine holds a Master’s Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode: → bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribe + + + +  📖 Bible Study → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🎙️ Life & Leadership Podcast → linktr.ee/christinecaine 🤝 Support the ministry → linktr.ee/christinecaine 📲 Follow Christine on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Christine Caine is here to activate you to live on mission for Jesus. Through God's Word and the power of the Holy Spirit, you will be awakened to God's unique purpose for your life and to lead boldly within your sphere of influence. She will equip and empower you to follow Jesus wholeheartedly, creating lasting Kingdom impact in your family, workplace, and community. If you desire to bring hope, create change, and see yourself the way God sees you, this podcast is for you. For Episode Reflection Guides and more, visit www.christinecaine.com/listen.

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