Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine: Participant's Guide

by Lucado, Max; Haley, Amanda

• ISBN13: 9781401675844
• ISBN10: 1401675840
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-11
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

Grace. We talk asthough we understand the term. The bank gives us a grace period. The seedy politician falls from grace. Musicians speak of a gracenote. We describe an actress as gracious,a dancer as graceful. We use the wordfor hospitals, baby girls, kings, and premeal prayers. We talk as though weknow what grace means. But do wereally understand it? Have we settled for wimpy grace? It politely occupies aphrase in a hymn, fits nicely on a church sign. Never causes trouble or demandsa response. When asked, "Do you believe in grace?" who could say no? Max Lucadoasks a deeper question: Have you been changed by grace? Shaped by grace?Strengthened by grace? Emboldened by grace? Softened by grace? Snatched by thenape of your neck and shaken to your senses by grace? God's gracehas a drenching about it. A wildness about it. A white-water, riptide,turn-you-upside-downness about it. Grace comes after you. It rewires you. Frominsecure to God secure. From regret riddled to better-because-of-it. Fromafraid to die to ready to fly. Grace isthe voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off. Let's makecertain grace gets you.

Author Biography

With over 100 million products in print, Max Lucado is one of America's favorite writers. He serves the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Denalyn, and a sweet but misbehaving mutt, Andy.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Why Study with a Small Group?	p. 11
How to Study with a Small Group	p. 13
How to Use This Guide	p. 15
The Grace-Shaped Life	p. 17
Jesus Stooped Low to Take Our Place	p. 33
You Can Rest Now	p. 43
Accepting the Gift of Wet Feet	p. 53
Coming Clean Within Grace that Abounds	p. 63
Chosen to a Guaranteed Place in the Family	p. 73
Sustaining and Sufficient Grace	p. 81
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