Daily Archives: June 29, 2009

Transforming Grace

transforming graceTitle: Transforming Grace
Author: Jerry Bridges
Finished: June 22, 2009
Pages: 265
Published: 1991

After a long afternoon conversation with my aunt we touched on the subject of grace and how it’s hard to come to terms with God and his forgiveness, or grace. She recommended this book to me and then surprised me one day by bringing it to me as a gift.

Once I got started reading I wanted to take my time to fully comprehend what I was reading and reflect. It was a very powerful book that encompasses everything one could think about, situations, and ideas where God’s grace could come into question, how it can help, bible verses to return to, and the author’s own personal experience.

After a slow start in reading, I found myself breezing through the pages while sitting with my dad at the hospital and found that to somehow be therapeutic reading about grace and forgiveness at a time when I knew I was going to be tested the most.

For anyone curious about God’s grace, and or are unsure of their own feelings, this a great book to start off with or even rekindle the relationship.

*Challenges: 100+ Challenge, New Authors Challenge, RYOB Challenge, Non-Fiction Five, 999×2 Challenge, Create a Colorful Summer

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It’s Monday. What are you reading?

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It’s Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event to list the books completed last week, the books currently being reading, and the books to be finish this week.

So, I was half tempted not to even join in this week because it has been my worst reading week of the year. Nothing finished or completed. I am getting close to finishing The Horse and His Boy and started Take Your Shirt Off, but between getting my dad checked out of the hospital and moved into a new assisted living place, plus family functions, my reading sucked this week and all I had time to do was curl up, watch a little TV and fall asleep. I’m anticipating this next week will be amazing because I’m traveling for the 4th and that means flying and extra reading. Hopefully I will cut this list in half and be able to add some more books in come Monday.

Reading This Week:

  • Take Your Shirt Off and Cry by Nancy Balbirer
  • The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
  • Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
  • The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
  • The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

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