The Scandal of Forgiveness

The Scandal of Forgiveness
Author: Philip Yancey
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310120098

Discover the true depth of what forgiveness is, what it demands of you, and how it sets you free. Forgiveness offers an alternative to an endless cycle of resentment and revenge that we often see in this world, but it can be difficult to understand its true power without first understanding God’s scandalous grace and forgiveness of us. In The Scandal of Forgiveness—an adaptation of the bestselling book What’s So Amazing About Grace?—author Philip Yancey will take you on an exploration of forgiveness and its clear connection to the gospel. You’ll learn how: Forgiveness is more powerful than getting even. The idea of forgiveness shatters the “eye for an eye” logic of the world. To see and shed the illusions surrounding grace and forgiveness. To accept the full impact of grace and what it means to be a grace-full Christian. The Scandal of Forgiveness reveals how you can adopt the forgiveness the world is searching for. You’ll learn how to authentically forgive and grow closer in your relationship with God

What's So Amazing About Grace? Revised and Updated

What's So Amazing About Grace? Revised and Updated
Author: Philip Yancey
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310367816

OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! It's the most powerful force in the universe, our only hope for love and forgiveness, and a foretaste of eternal life: amazing, radical, life-changing grace. Millions of lives have been changed by award-winning author Philip Yancey's startling exploration of grace at street level. Grace is the one thing the world can't duplicate, the healing force we need, and the key to transforming a broken world. In this revised and updated edition of his personal and provocative book, Yancey offers true portraits of grace's life-changing power. These stories, set in the midst of life's stark realities, evoke such questions as: If grace is God's love for the undeserving, how do I get it? How well are we dispensing grace to a world that knows far more of strife and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Can grace make a difference in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust, and how can it withstand the brutality of hate? With powerful stories, rich theology, and practical suggestions, Yancey challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately needs to know, What's So Amazing About Grace?

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
Author: Eric Metaxas
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0061863386

Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in 1833. Metaxas discovers in this unsung hero a man of whom it can truly be said: he changed the world. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as a great moral wrong. To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, HarperSanFrancisco and Bristol Bay Productions have joined together to commemorate the life of William Wilberforce with the feature-length film Amazing Grace and this companion biography, which provides a fuller account of the amazing life of this great man than can be captured on film. This account of Wilberforce's life will help many become acquainted with an exceptional man who was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America.

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
Author: Mary Hoffman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399186832

Grace loves stories, whether they're from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. So when she gets a chance to play a part in Peter Pan, she knows exactly who she wants to be. Remarkable watercolor illustrations give full expression to Grace's high-flying imagination.

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
Author: Hal Lindsey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1995
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 9780964105843

Astonishing Grace

Astonishing Grace
Author: Ana Marija Franc Weinhardt
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2024-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This is a collection of eight amazing stories of people who went through both common and extraordinary circumstances. Step into accounts of everyday hardships interwoven with miraculous endings, as well as stories of God’s light piercing through deep darkness and delivering people from unbearably heavy situations: A young boy from Yugoslavia, persecuted because of his German background, seeing his mother suffer cruelly, being abused by his step-father, and living in a graveyard for years as a teenager. A young soldier, surviving a serious accident in the war in Afghanistan, left without any hope and on the brink of suicide. A life full of fleeting pleasures – drinking, girlfriends, pornography – all leaving a young man empty and unsatisfied. Young parents going through the unimaginable as they watch their firstborn five-year-old daughter battle an aggressive brain tumor. “These true life stories shake, question, and invite us all into the embrace of the One who calls us all to his yoke and his rest.” —arko orevi, Professor of Theology at the Faculty of Theology in Novi Sad; Bible Translator (New Serbian Translation); editor of this book in original Serbian language Each of these true stories – collected by the author from people she knows personally – showcases the astonishing grace of God. Each is a powerful testimony that will not leave you indifferent, but will inspire you towards a deeper walk with Christ, who is the main character throughout this book and the source of all hope and perseverance. Be ready for this book to captivate you from the first page to the last.

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0770435661

Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s classic book on life and death in the South Bronx—the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS. But he also introduces us to devoted and unselfish teachers, dedicated ministers, and—at the heart and center of the book—courageous and delightful children. The children we come to meet through the friendships they have formed with Jonathan defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. Amidst all of the despair, it is the very young whose luminous capacity for love and transcendent sense of faith in human decency give reason for hope.

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
Author: Aaron Cohen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1441103929

This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time. For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic: five years after ascending to soul royalty and commercial success, Franklin was publicly returning to her religious roots. Her influential minister father stood by her on the pulpit. Her mentor, Clara Ward, sat in the pews. Franklin responded to the occasion with the performance of her life and the resulting double album became a multi-million seller - even without any trademark hit singles. But that was just one part of the story. Franklin's warm inimitable voice, virtuoso jazz-soul instrumental group and Rev. James Cleveland's inventive choral arrangements transformed the course of gospel. Through new interviews, musical and theological analyses as well as archival discoveries, this book sets the scene, traces the recording's traditional origins and pop infusions and describes the album's enduring impact.

Putting Amazing Back Into Grace

Putting Amazing Back Into Grace
Author: Michael Horton
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801014212

Leading Reformed voice offers a revised and updated edition of his landmark publication about the freeing message of saving grace.

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
Author: Megan Shull
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780756982768

Tennis superstar Grace Kincaid goes from everybody's idea of perfect to her own idea of an imperfect (but wonderful) self in this novel by a sparkling new voice in teen fiction.