Discover how God's profound gift of grace and favour lets us rest from chasing approval and earning love. This is the first Christian Living title from much-loved GraceLaced gift book creator and artist, Ruth Chou Simons.**Bestselling author, entrepreneur, and speaker Ruth Chou Simons calls women to discover how God's profound...
Discover how God's profound gift of grace and favour lets us rest from chasing approval and earning love. This is the first Christian Living title from much-loved GraceLaced gift book creator and artist, Ruth Chou Simons.
**Bestselling author, entrepreneur, and speaker Ruth Chou Simons calls women to discover how God's profound gift of grace and favor invites them to rest from chasing approval and earning love, and instead discover the freedom of true belonging and worth that doesn't depend on them.**
In this hustling, image-forward age of opportunity, women are more anxious than ever. Despite all the affirming memes and self-reflections that dominate social media feeds, approval and worth often seem assigned to what we do rather than who we are. And we end up constantly feeling behind, lacking, and like we're failing--at home, at work, with friends, with God.
Ruth Chou Simons knows something of feeling measured by achievement, performance, and the approval of others. As a Taiwanese immigrant growing up between two cultures, Ruth was always on a mission to prove her worth. Until she came to truly understand the one thing that changes everything: the extravagant, undeserved gift of grace from a merciful God. In *When Strivings Cease*, Ruth guides us all on a journey to find freedom from the never-ending quest for approval and affirmation. She shows us how to
* confront the ways we look to superficial means of acceptance and belonging, and find relief in realizing we can't be so amazing that we won't need grace; * stop seeing God as someone we perform for and start finding delight in responding to God's welcome; and * find relief from running the hamster wheel of relying on our own strength, our own abilities, and our own savvy--and always coming up short--by truly understanding the freedom Jesus purchased.
With personal story, biblical insights, practical applications, and original artwork by Ruth, this transformational new book helps us see the beautiful truth that God's favor is the only currency we need, because in Christ we are enough.
Discover how God's profound gift of grace and favour lets us rest from chasing approval and earning love. This is the first Christian Living title from much-loved GraceLaced gift book creator and artist, Ruth Chou Simons.**Bestselling author, entrepreneur, and speaker Ruth Chou Simons calls women to discover how God's profound...
Discover how God's profound gift of grace and favour lets us rest from chasing approval and earning love. This is the first Christian Living title from much-loved GraceLaced gift book creator and artist, Ruth Chou Simons.
**Bestselling author, entrepreneur, and speaker Ruth Chou Simons calls women to discover how God's profound gift of grace and favor invites them to rest from chasing approval and earning love, and instead discover the freedom of true belonging and worth that doesn't depend on them.**
In this hustling, image-forward age of opportunity, women are more anxious than ever. Despite all the affirming memes and self-reflections that dominate social media feeds, approval and worth often seem assigned to what we do rather than who we are. And we end up constantly feeling behind, lacking, and like we're failing--at home, at work, with friends, with God.
Ruth Chou Simons knows something of feeling measured by achievement, performance, and the approval of others. As a Taiwanese immigrant growing up between two cultures, Ruth was always on a mission to prove her worth. Until she came to truly understand the one thing that changes everything: the extravagant, undeserved gift of grace from a merciful God. In *When Strivings Cease*, Ruth guides us all on a journey to find freedom from the never-ending quest for approval and affirmation. She shows us how to
* confront the ways we look to superficial means of acceptance and belonging, and find relief in realizing we can't be so amazing that we won't need grace; * stop seeing God as someone we perform for and start finding delight in responding to God's welcome; and * find relief from running the hamster wheel of relying on our own strength, our own abilities, and our own savvy--and always coming up short--by truly understanding the freedom Jesus purchased.
With personal story, biblical insights, practical applications, and original artwork by Ruth, this transformational new book helps us see the beautiful truth that God's favor is the only currency we need, because in Christ we are enough.
When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement With the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace$27.99
This book was absolutely brilliant. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction but I am so glad I read it, finding it both challenging and encouraging. I cried through parts, wrestled through other parts, and felt seen. I love how the author simply shares her own story and what she’s learnt along the way, with brutal honesty at times, but as if sitting down with a friend for coffee and just chatting. It’s beautiful in its simplicity.
If, like me, you're constantly trying (and constantly failing) just to be enough, read this. While it's going to take a while to retrain my mind, and I'll probably still struggle with the whole striving thing, reading this book I saw for the first time that maybe there's another way. A better way. A way that allows us to lay our shovels and striving down in exchange for a cup to drink from. To stop constantly treading water, constantly striving, and rest in God's grace.
J
Jess
I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
2 years ago
Great Encouragement!
I love her real-life experiences that remind us that in the imperfect moments of life, God is still active and revealing his grace to us. A great reminder to let go and let God. He's good. He's enough.
