New Books on Grace

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[Janet Easson Martin]

     Saw two wonderfully encouraging books on God's GRACE out now:  The Grace of God by Andy Stanley and What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey.  These are both biblically sound authors.  I just started reading the first.  Here is a very short excerpt from it:

"Perhaps from your perspective, God's requirements are innumerable and his grace minimal.  If that is the case, you are not alone.  You are in the majority.  And my hope is that by the time you reach the halfway mark in this book, you will have shed much of that misbelief and will embrace God as he is:  the God characterized by grace." 

     There was also one other book that looked interesting but I know nothing about the author.  It is titled Lazarus Awakening by Joanna Weaver.

     It would seem receiving the truth about God's grace would enable us to love Him more.  I want to know more about it so that I can see more how beautiful He really is.

Want to be in love with Him,

Janet

[margaret]

I also was greatly helped by a book by Elyse Fitzpatrick...can't remember the name now...but it has helped in our break from GCM.  And for me, The Shack has helped a ton, too.  I can so identify with Mac.
Still processing our break...even a couple years later, and very gun-shy to join another church.  I still hear the voice of the main elder over my shoulder every time a Biblical topic comes up, or a specific passage I might read....I hear the "party line," or canned answer of what I  SHOULD believe.
Wonder if I'll ever feel healthy again.

[Hirockhiv]

I agree with Opa Tuen Wei is really good.