Audiobooks by Ruth Chou Simons

Now and Not Yet: Audio Bible Studies: Pressing In When You're Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for Mor

If you've ever waited on the Lord for something-direction, answers, resolution, strength-you know how challenging it can be. Even when we fully believe that God sees and hears our requests, if we're honest, we sometimes view waiting as wasted time. But, what if it's not? What if waiting is the means God uses to make us more like Christ? What if there are some pieces of God's character that we'll only learn while we wait? If that's true… how do we lean in? What lessons do these seasons hold? How do we keep hoping and believing what we know to be true? In this six-week study, you'll explore five biblical narratives that put God's faithfulness to waiting people on display and help you direct your gaze from the answers you're seeking to the God who meets you while you wait. The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.

Ruth Chou Simons (Author), Ruth Simons (Narrator)

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Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More

Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons guides readers who are restless in their current circumstances on a journey of growth, purpose, and pressing in. Too often, we feel disappointed with our 'right now'--our life circumstances, our relationships, our progress, our daily grind. We want to do so many things--good, godly things--but our situations don't allow us to step into them. Are we missing out on our own lives? Why does right now seem so far from where we really long to be? Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons reminds us that it's okay to not like the right now we've been given, but we don't have to like it to lean in. In Now and Not Yet, Ruth shows us how to.. . - embrace the biblical truth that someday is made up of thousands of right nows; - discern how the difficult parts of our lives are actually a unique gift by discovering five ways to flip the script on a hard season; - stop feeling trapped when we are not where we want to be with guided liturgies for what we are facing today; and - live faithfully in the tension between what is and what is not yet. Your right now matters. And you can choose to press in and not check out. To know God is at work even when you don't see the progress you're looking for. To start where you are in this very moment. Because he's not through with you yet.

Ruth Chou Simons (Author), Ruth Simons (Narrator)

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Pilgrim: 25 Ways God’s Character Leads Us Onward

As a follower of Christ, you live each day as a pilgrim, traveling the path Jesus sets before you. Though the road may be rocky, God provides reminders along the way to show you that He writes your story, paves your path, and walks with you always. From bestselling author and artist Ruth Chou Simons comes this uplifting meditation on the character of God to accompany you on your pilgrim journey. These 25 devotions will lead you to -explore proof of God’s faithfulness found in both Scripture and daily life, -engage with many key attributes of God, -encounter hymns written throughout history that illuminate timeless truths about who God is, and -experience the peace that accompanies focusing your heart on God’s character. Pilgrim reminds us of profound truths by showing us how God’s grace and provision shape each Christian’s unique journey of conforming to the image of Christ. On the path of spiritual growth and maturity, knowing God’s character makes all the difference. When your travels leave you worn and weary, God will not abandon you—you can lay your burdens in His hands, find hope in His presence, and follow His path as He leads you onward.

Ruth Chou Simons (Author), Ruth Chou Simons (Narrator)

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Emmanuel: An Invitation to Prepare Him Room at Christmas and Always

If there’s one name for Jesus that captures the whole heart of God, it is Emmanuel—God with us. No other name similarly expresses the fullness of God’s eternal desire for His image-bearers. He’s always wanted us to be with Him. From the bestselling author and artist behind GraceLaced and Beholding and Becoming comes this gorgeous exploration of what it means to intimately experience God’s presence in our daily lives. Ruth Chou Simons welcomes you and your family to partake in a season of surrender as you discover the true miracle behind Christmas: that while we journey to grow in our relationships with Jesus, He has already come so He can be with us forever. Christmas Day is not the end of our celebrations, but the beginning! Emmanuel is an invitation to rejoice in the everlasting fellowship and hope God extended to us on the day of His Son’s birth, guiding us to realize that having God with us all year long is Christmas’s most incredible gift.

Ruth Chou Simons (Author), Ruth Chou Simons (Narrator)

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When Strivings Cease: Audio Bible Studies: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel

Find freedom from the never-ending quest for approval and affirmation by learning how to accept the undeserved gift of grace from a merciful God. In today's society, the pressure to perform is overwhelming. It's a hustling, image-forward age of opportunity, and women are more anxious than ever. Many of us end up constantly feeling behind, lacking, and like we're failing-at home, at work, with friends, with God. In this audio Bible study, 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. After going through this study, you'll walk away understanding more fully that the generous, unmerited favor of God is the means to the welcome, love, and approval you so deeply long for. Sessions include: - Coordinating study guide available separately. The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.

Ruth Chou Simons (Author), Ruth Simons (Narrator)

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

Read by the author. Grace Secures What Striving Cannot In this hustling, image-forward age of opportunity, we feel 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 like we're behind, lacking, and failing-at home, at work, with friends, with God. Ruth Chou Simons knows something about 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 you on a journey to find freedom from the never-ending quest for self-improvement. She shows you how to - confront the ways you look to superficial means of acceptance and belonging; - find relief in realizing self-help isn't the answer because you can't be so amazing that you won't need grace; - stop seeing God as someone to perform for and start finding delight in responding to his welcome; and - let go of trying to rely on your own strength, your own abilities, and your own savvy by truly understanding the freedom Jesus purchased for you. With personal stories, biblical insights, practical applications, and touches of original artwork by Ruth, this transformational book helps you see the beautiful truth that God's favor is the only currency you need-because in Christ you are enough.

Ruth Chou Simons (Author), Ruth Simons (Narrator)

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Faithful

As they examine the stories of incredible women of the Bible, readers will find hope, encouragement, and a strong sense of community in this beautiful, eclectic collection of writing, and lyrics that reflect God's faithfulness. Bringing together some of the most beloved Christian authors and songwriters of today, Faithful guides readers through the pages of Scripture to increase understanding of how God has always valued the integral role of females and how that shapes the lives of women today. The Faithful project is a collaboration between three major ministry partners: David C Cook, Integrity Music, and Compassion International. The accompanying album and a 2021 tour of live events celebrates the contributions of women while recognizing their empowerment through the faithfulness of God. This beautiful, creative book will invite readers to return again and again for reflection and inspiration through guided scripture reading and writing prompts.

Amanda Bible Williams, Ann Voskamp, Ginny Owens, Kelly Minter, Kelly Needham, Lisa Harper, Raechel Myers, Ruth Chou Simons, Sally Lloyd-Jones, Sarah Macintosh, Savannah Locke, Trillia Newbell (Author), Amy Grant, Carla Mercer-Meyer (Narrator)

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Foundations: 12 Biblical Truths to Shape a Family

Families are shaped one day at a time through the Word of God You want your children to become Christ followers, obedient to His commands, and fruitful in their faith, but where do you begin? Though there isn't a formula or prescription for raising godly kids, what you desire for your family begins with heeding God's instructions to remember and declare His faithful works to the next generation. Bestselling author and artist Ruth Chou Simons, along with her husband, Troy, are gratefully raising six boys on a firm foundation of God's Word by preaching that truth to themselves and their family daily. In this book, they invite you to join them in the holy work of training children to know and love God for a lifetime. Foundations will help you direct your family one day at a time, as you explore 12 key truths that will help connect your children's hearts-and yours-to the heart of God. With a simple, chapter-a-day format that includes Scripture, devotional thoughts, meditations, and discussion questions, this book will guide you in leading your family.

Ruth Chou Simons, Troy Simons (Author), Ruth Chou Simons, Troy Simons (Narrator)

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Beholding and Becoming: The Art of Everyday Worship

You are in the process of becoming. Every day is an opportunity to be shaped and formed by what moves your heart, drives your thoughts, and captures your gaze. Is it any wonder that where you direct your eyes and your heart matter in your day-to-day? We become what we behold when we set our hearts and minds on Christ and His redemption story here in the details of our daily lives-not just on Sunday, not just on holidays, not just when extraordinarily hard or wonderful things happen...but today. Today is an opportunity for God to demonstrate His love and His faithfulness in the midst of your mundane. No circumstance is too ordinary or too forgotten for Him to meet you there in worship. His transforming grace turns your "everyday ordinary" into a holy place of becoming.

Ruth Chou Simons (Author), Ruth Chou Simons (Narrator)

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