There is good news: you can't earn God's love. Whatever you have done or whatever has been done to you—none of it qualifies or disqualifies you from God's love.
In Unloved: The Rejected Saints God Calls Beloved, Elyse M. Fitzpatrick tells stories of God's faithfulness towards the misunderstood and often unfaithful saints of the Bible.
These women and men suffered and failed and were often maligned. And yet they were also loved by God. His love for these messy saints reminds you that God also loves you—generously, lavishly, and freely. Jesus came for the outcasts, men and women burdened by shame or guilt and seen as unloved. And he calls you his beloved.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick is a bestselling author, national speaker, and ministry leader. She is author of more than twenty-five books, including Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus and Jesus and Gender: Living as Sisters and Brothers in Christ. Elyse earned a master's degree in biblical counseling from Trinity Theological Seminary, has been married for more than forty years, and loves to proclaim the good news of the gospel.