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When strivings cease : replacing the gospel of self-improvement with the gospel of life-transforming grace

Chou Simons, Ruth (author.).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781400224999
ISBN: 1400224993
Physical Description: print
xix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

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Introduction: We're missing something (why we're so tired. Why we strive.) -- Bent and broken : striving to please -- Unworthy : striving for attention -- Just amazing enough to not need grace : striving to be good enough -- The welcome we long for : striving for approval -- Pressure to perform : striving to save ourselves through perfection -- The lunchroom : striving to belong -- Honor and shame : striving to outrun shame -- The gift : striving to have it all -- Grace makes new, not better -- Grace fuels good works -- Grace cancels our debt, for real -- Grace rewrites our stories -- Grace replaces fear with freedom -- Grace makes forgiveness possible -- Grace is enough to hold you together -- A borrowed prayer from the valley of vision / by Arthur Bennett.