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When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement With the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

by Ruth Chou Simons
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When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement With the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace
When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement With the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

Grace over grind: rest in divine worthiness.

If you've ever felt trapped in the cycle of self-improvement and the pursuit of external validation, "When Strivings Cease" can be a liberating read. Ruth Chou Simons delves into the unnecessary pressures women face and offers a shift in perspective towards embracing grace. This book is your gentle nudge towards understanding that self-worth isn't earned—it's given, helping you find respite from the relentless quest for achievement.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement With the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

by Ruth Chou Simons
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ISBN: 9781400224999
Author: Ruth Chou Simons
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date of Publication: 2021-10-12
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Personal Development, Religion
Related Topics: Personal Development, Faith, Christian Non Fiction, Spirituality, Christian, Christianity, Christian Living
Goodreads rating: 4.37
(rated by 3753 readers)

Description

This is not a call to get busy; it’s a call to get discerning. 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 self-improvement. She shows us how to examine 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
 

Grace over grind: rest in divine worthiness.

If you've ever felt trapped in the cycle of self-improvement and the pursuit of external validation, "When Strivings Cease" can be a liberating read. Ruth Chou Simons delves into the unnecessary pressures women face and offers a shift in perspective towards embracing grace. This book is your gentle nudge towards understanding that self-worth isn't earned—it's given, helping you find respite from the relentless quest for achievement.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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