Amy Grant, following a string of 2020s adversities, will showcase her 20th studio album “The Me That Remains” during a performance Friday at the Sherman Theater, Main Street, Stroudsburg.

The award-winning singer, the first contemporary Christian music artist to enjoy major pop crossover success, has endured health scares that sent her on a physical, emotional and spiritual journey.

Grant’s health scares consisted of open heart surgery in 2020, a 2022 bicycle accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, and the removal of a throat cyst in 2023, after which she relearned how to sing.

Despite the challenges that inspired “The Me That Remains,” making the set was effortless for Grant.

“I didn’t know I was making an album,” she said. “I just leaned into songwriting as part of my recovery from everything I had been through.”

Grant, whose post-bike-accident quiet time included keeping a “Writing to Remember” notebook and reading Desmond and Mpho Tutu’s “The Book of Forgiving,” started with two songs she wanted to record. After several months, she and producer Mac McAnally had enough songs for an album.

“I didn’t have a record contract. There was zero pressure. It developed organically, not trying to meet anybody’s expectations. I was enjoying what I always enjoyed; as a writer, being a witness to life.”

“The Me That Remains,” released May 8 on independent label Thirty Tigers, marks Grant’s first album of all-new material since 2013. The folk-pop set includes lead single “The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm),” which connects protest movements of the 1960s and before to today’s ongoing fight for justice.

The new album also features guests: singer-songwriter Ruby Amanfu on “How Do We Get There From Here”; country star Vince Gill, Grant’s husband of 26 years, on “Friend Like You”; and daughters Sarah and Corrina on “The Other Side of Goodbye.” Grant’s mother’s passing inspired the latter.

While Grant will perform a career-spanning set during her stripped-down show — with Corrina, her daughter with Gill, opening — she will focus on the new album.

“I start with a bunch of old stuff, then sing the new record top to bottom.”

Born in Augusta, Georgia, Grant, the youngest of four girls, grew up in Nashville, where she resides. Even though “I didn’t have a standing-ovation voice, I knew I wanted to somehow make music.”

Grant, who did not grow up owning gospel/CCM records, loved artists such as The Beatles, James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley. As a young girl, she watched bands perform at a coffee shop connected to a hippie church.

At the time, “I started writing songs about faith. Nobody was really singing about faith, in the kind of music I was used to. It got me my first record deal at 15. It cracked the door open for me,” with a representative from Myrrh Records telling Grant’s friend, “She’s not that good, but she sounds sincere.”

Grant, a backup singer for Bill Gaither in the 1980s, released five gospel/CCM albums from 1977 to 1984. “Unguarded,” released in 1985, had a more mainstream pop sound and featured the hit “Find a Way.”

Later, Grant was shocked to receive a call to sing with former Chicago frontman Peter Cetera.

“I was 25 at the time. It was not anything I ever dreamed about. A door opened and I walked through it,” Grant said of the 1986 duet “The Next Time I Fall,” a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single.

Grant, tired of serious music following 1988’s “Lead Me On,” co-wrote “Baby Baby” as an ode to her first-born daughter Millie. A&M and Myrrh, the singer’s record labels from 1985 to 2003, “didn’t know what to do. It’s not like I had a big plan to go pop. The music takes you where it takes you.”

Aside from the No. 1 “Baby Baby,” 1991’s “Heart in Motion” spawned the hits “Every Heartbeat,” “That’s What Love is For,” “Good For Me” and “I Will Remember You.” Grant’s other hits include “Lucky One,” “House of Love” and “Takes a Little Time.”

Through the years, portions of the Christian community have taken issue with Grant. Among the objections: the singer-songwriter’s pop crossover and 1999 divorce from singer-songwriter Gary Chapman, with whom she shared 17 years of marriage and children Matthew, Millie and Sarah.

Grant, a 2003 Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductee, however, paid no mind to dissenting voices.

“It was a different time in our culture. I may have been the topic of someone’s dinner conversation, but it wasn’t at my table. Even when I went through my divorce and I was on the cover of rag magazines, I never purchased those magazines.

“I wasn’t trying to protect myself,” she continued. “I don’t have a curiosity about what somebody’s saying, who I don’t know. There’s so much to do in life. I’m not going to spend time on this.”

Rather, Grant spends time marveling at how she successfully intertwined her career and motherhood.

“The thing I’m most proud of, by far, is that within the framework of a very busy worklife, I managed to have four children. I would time a pregnancy so I was outgrowing my clothes by the end of a tour.”

When Grant recently performed at the Mother concert in Nashville, artists navigating motherhood and music “would say, ‘You’ve made us know it’s possible for us to do this.’ I didn’t want to tell them this, but my whole grown family has been in therapy. I think everyone should go.”

Grant, while proud of how she navigated music and motherhood, does have a musical disappointment.

“I wish I had dedicated consistent time to my guitar playing,” said the entertainer, who taught herself guitar as a teen. “In the shows we’re doing now, I wish I could do more of the heavy lifting. Someday in the nursing home, I would love to play all these songs for my comrades.”