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Product Description 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 muchas 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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Product Details Average Customer Rating:  (2 reviews) (Paperback) : 304 Pages Release Date: Feburary 01, 2002 Label: Zondervan Publishing Company Distributed By: Zondervan Publishing Company Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Length: 8.66 inches Height: 0.98 inches Weight: 0.98 (lbs) Language: Category: CHRISTIAN LIVING ISBN: 0310245656 EAN / ISBN-13: 9780310245650 UPC: 025986245658 Product Code: 93816 |
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Author Information Philip Yancey Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards for What's So Amazing About Grace? And The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies each. He lives with his wife in Colorado. Philip Yancey es editor regional de la revista Christianity Today. Ha escrito once libros premiados con la medalla de oro, entre los que figuran: La Biblia que ley?? Jes?'s y El don del dolor. Sus libros El Jes?'s que nunca conoc?? y Gracia divina vs. condena humana |
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Customer Reviews Average Customer Rating: (2 reviews)   Grace Unveiled April 25, 2006Reviewer: Elizabeth from Boston Yancey does a beautiful job of reminding us what Grace really is and why in the world any of us gets a chance at having some. He breaks up the stereotypical prejudices that require our withholding of grace to others, and convicts readers to transformation. What is so amazing about Grace, anyway?? Read this book and you may begin to stitch together a minute understanding of such an overwhelming gift from God.  Amazing Book about Amazing Grace August 25, 2005Reviewer: Anonymous from Yancey does an excellent job of presenting everyday grace occurances. The imagery in this book will follow you through out your journey of faith and make you more susceptible to extending grace to others. Show all 2 reviews |
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