This Time Is Different

Katie Goins had everything ahead of her. A straight-A student. A cheerleader. A loving family. A future filled with possibilities. Then one Friday night changes everything. A quick stop after a football game ends in gunfire. Katie survives the bullet that kills her boyfriend, but the road back is filled with surgeries, rehabilitation, chronic pain, and memories she cannot escape. The medication prescribed to help her heal begins doing something else. It makes everything quiet. Soon pills aren't enough. Katie's life spirals through addiction, lies, stolen money, harder drugs, exploitation, broken promises, and jail. Again and again, she tells the people who love her: "This time is different." Eventually, nobody believes her. Not her parents. Not the judge. Not even Katie. Across town, Sharon Wilson wants nothing more than to be an ordinary woman sitting on a church pew. But God will not stop burdening her heart for women in jail. Sharon argues, makes excuses, and even tries to find someone else to answer the calling. But God didn't ask Sharon to find somebody. God asked Sharon. When these two women finally meet inside a county jail, neither realizes how completely one act of obedience is about to change both of their lives. Katie doesn't need another promise. She doesn't need another chance to prove she can fix herself. She needs surrender. And when she finally gives Jesus Christ what she has held back all along-herself-Katie discovers that God is still able to do what everyone else has begun to believe is impossible. But deliverance is only the beginning. Forgiveness may come in a moment. Trust takes longer.