On the heels of Philip Yancey's best-selling "The Jesus I Never Knew" comes his equally important and tautological treatment of grace, the engine that powers Christian love and pushes evil away with forgiveness.
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This book will touch everyone at the core of their soul.
Philip says it best when he describes "grace" as the one unique word that distinguishes authentic Christianity throughout the ages. It's what I need every day; it's likely what you desire every day. Philip's book will prod us all to receive grace and dispense it. The results will surprise and delight us. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Philip says it best when he describes "grace" as the one unique word that distinguishes authentic Christianity throughout the ages. It's what I need every day; it's likely what you desire every day. Philip's book will prod us all to receive grace and dispense it. The results will surprise and delight us. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon alone survived. And forgave. He said of the bombers, "I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge. . . . I shall pray, tonight and every night, that God will forgive them."
His words caught the media’s ear--and out of one man’s grief, the world got a glimpse of grace.
Grace is the church’s great distinctive. It’s the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else--for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world.
In What’s So Amazing About Grace? award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. If grace is God’s love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy?
Yancey sets grace in the midst of life’s stark images, tests its mettle against horrific "ungrace." Can grace survive in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust? Can it triumph over the brutality of the Ku Klux Klan? Should any grace at all be shown to the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed and cannibalized seventeen young men?
Grace does not excuse sin, says Yancey, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous. It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope. It forgives the unfaithful spouse, the racist, the child abuser. It loves today’s AIDS-ridden addict as much as the tax collector of Jesus’ day.
In his most personal and provocative book ever, Yancey offers compelling, true portraits of grace’s life-changing power. He searches for its presence in his own life and in the church. He asks, How can Christians contend graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear?
And he challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, What’s So Amazing About Grace?
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer. It's the feeling of being uncared for or unwanted, of being deserted and alone". ( Mother Theresa). This is exactly what author Phillip Yancey knows only too well, and thus addresses the issue head on. Throughout the book, he paints a picture of 'Grace on Tap' for those who feel guilty, lonely, forsaken, useless and failures. At the very centre of this art piece stands a God who does the illogical for those who have never experienced such love, and there is a clear challenge for those who claim to be followers of this God, to join Him in this cause.
This is an honest look at life, at our religious institutions, our relationships and our prejudices. It is a book that has brought hope to thousands that there is a cure for this great 'disease'. Read the stories, feel the heart ache, sense the love, and be inspired!
58 of 59 people found the following review helpful
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As my review title suggests I had this book sitting on my shelf for ages. I had heard people rave about it, but that really put me of reading it because so often I am dissapointed by the quality and content of books that become "popular" amongst christians. I tend to find ( feel free to disagree ) that what appeals is the lowest common denominator.
However this is different.
Yancy tackles the issue of how we are to respond to others in the light of the way that God responds to us in a way which is both theologically deep and totally practical, encouraging us to see others through the eyes of a God who has forgiven us without demand.
It is a great book, and I challenge anyone to read it and not be changed in the way they think of being gracious towards others in the light of how God has been gracious towards them.
Enjoy
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
By MR J GARDNER
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Yancey takes the concept of God's grace and 'earths it'. What does it mean to us...undeserved merit, and how do we 'reflect' it? This book is awesome, challenging, rivoting, and will change the way you think about things. If you're looking for one book - apart from the Bible - this is it!
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Inspiring Readong
Phillip Yancy is a very inspiring writer. I have read several of his books. I would re read this book.
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Let down
Maybe I bought the book for the wrong reason. I was hoping to find out what it was that was stopping me from getting Gods grace. Read more
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The scandal of grace
A friend gave me this book after correctly perceiving that I was in need of spiritual consolation. It's taken me a long time to read, because I was conscious of needing to allow... Read more
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That book can transform your view of God's Grace and Love for you! The power of the real stories and examples are amazing! Read more
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Grace
This is the most wonderful book I have ever read. If you need encouragement in your life then this is the book for you. One cannot read this book and not be moved. Read more
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This is a 'must read' book for Xtns of all persuasions. If you have wondered what Grace is all about this publication will tell you. Read more
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Yancey's classic, now acessible to reluctant readers- hurrah!
I find this to be a wonderfully quick and easy way to remind myself of the amazing truth about the power of grace that so impressed me in the original book. Read more
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My view
Very good value indeed. It is a used book but looks new. Came in time and well packaged. Highly recommended.
Published 3 months ago by Pen Name
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Good book
I enjoyed the content of this book. There are some thought provoking issues presented for Christians and non christians alike. However its a bit long winded.
Published 4 months ago by Mr. D. Hatala And Hatala
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Stories of grace and ungrace
This is a very useful book for someone trying to understand something fundamental to Christian belief - grace. Read more
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