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Of the two, carlym, I preferred What's So Amazing About Grace?. I had a definite sense in Reaching for the Invisible God of material being re-cycled. ... see why turning pages might not count, but surely lifting a heavy tome should count for something.
I will have to get to What's So Amazing About Grace? soon. It sounds very good! ... says I have to lose weight and get more exercise. I don't think she meant turning pages, more's the pity.
My review of What's So Amazing About Grace?:
A wonderful reflection on what grace is, how it seems to be lacking in some churches, and how it appears in the most unexpected places. ... Finished What's So Amazing About Grace? and starting No. 11, P. D. James's Death in Holy Orders. This is a re-read, a book which found its way home after I lent it to someone.
Review of "What's So Amazing About Grace?" to follow as I have to get ready to go to the doctor's for the ... ... review, Robert! If the book was not already in the BlackHole, I would add it again.
Looking forward to your review of What's So Amazing About Grace, a book I have had sitting next to my couch for about a year now. I've finished Mary Renault's Fire From Heaven and am now reading No. 10 Philip Yancey's What's So Amazing About Grace?, which brings the TBR pile down to 58.
My review of "Fire From Heaven":
The first of Mary Renault's novels about Alexander the Great, it takes us through his ... Amazing Grace I didn't know the movie was based on a book. I'll be adding Amazing Grace to my wishlist :) Thanks for the review! BTW, the film version of Amazing Grace is quite good. ... repeat read, because the politics was more interesting to me than the police mystery. However, thanks for the referral.
About Grace by Anthony Doerr was a read for my RL book club, and is very well-written, but I was not as overwhelmed by it as my fellow readers. A man who has dreams about ... ... Primeval by Elmore Leonard
Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye
The Last Six Million Seconds by John Burdett
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
The Savage by David Almond
for a total reading thus far of 190 books. ... let’s see—there’s Moll Flanders (still in Virginia); Cryptonomicon; Lisey’s Story; The Eye in the Door; About Grace; Till We Have Faces; Before Women Had Wings; The Turkish Gambit
Favorite book when you were a child:
As a very young child, Milne and Seuss ... >18 Porchy, I thought What's So Amazing About Grace was, well... amazing! I reviewed it on my earlier thread. The thing I like about Yancey is the fact that he does not speak from some high and lofty position, he is down where we all are - in the dust!
- TT ... of Prayer: Does It Make a Difference. It sounds like great book. I've never read anything by Yancey, but I just bought What's So Amazing about Grace, which came highly recommended by my pastor. Bonus Category: Theology and Spirituality: Amazing Grace by Kathleen Morris.
This delightfully written book is going to be one on my "read again and again" shelf.. It is the first book in years (if ever) that I was compelled to mark up. The author, raised in mainstream American ... ... post specifically about the Inferno, I couldn't resist. This afternoon, I finished a wonderful book by Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace. My full review will be on my 999 thread. But I was so tickled when I read in her essay on Hell, about the Singapore amusement park depicting the ten courts ... >16 Dearest Stasia , What's So Amazing about Grace was one of my top reads in 2008. Let us know what you think of it.
- TT
ETA: Spelling mistake! #12: Catey and I would like the copy of What's So Amazing About Grace if it is still available. Thanks! ... Prophecy by James Redfield
2. Be Careful What You Wish For...You Just Might Get it by Larry Dossey
3. What's So Amazing About Grace by Phillip Yancey
4. The Secret Life of Bee's by Sue Monk Kidd
If you are interested, please post on this thread.
... Education by John Dewey
Pedogagy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol
The Shame of the Nation: The Restorati ... ... a Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Letters of Dorothy Sayers, vol. 2
What's so Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
The Menopause Manager by Mary Ann Mayo & Joseph L. Mayo, M.D. ... wonderful and begging to be read immediately will appear under the tree.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam - poetry #8
Amazing Grace -#10 theology
Omnivore's Dilemma - #11 food
Yes I know...I'm still hanging on to 11 categories - just can't let go of any of them. So if I get 81 books ... Just added the Coffee Trader by David Liss to my To Be Discovered category #9. This is the January read for the Highly Rated Book Group. It can also be an overlap for Food Category. I'm a great coffee drinker, and can hardly wait.
... and Theology
1. Prayer - Philip Yancey (TBR)
2. The Science of God - Alister McGrath (TBR)
3. Grace - Amazing Grace - Brian Edwards (TBR)
4. Fabricating Jesus - Craig Evans (TBR)
5. Pierced for our Transgressions - Jeffery, Ovey & Sach (TBR)
6. The Pursuit ... ... situation, task or problem with the greater likelihood of success than by sheer will-power alone.
Christian
What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
I read many excellent Christian manuals in the latter half of 2008 but this one stood out as being of particular ... ... Books:
* Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
* Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt
* The Night Battles by M.F. Bloxam
* About Grace by Anthony Doerr
* Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
* Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa
* Shimmer by Eric Barnes
May Books:
* Somebody: T ... >219 deebee: Excellent review of The Yellow Wind. I was reading in What's So Amazing about Grace? (see my thread) that the only way to break the cycle of violence is to "forgive". Of course, that isn't going to happen anytime soon in Palestine, because their positions are so entrenched and the ... ... piece entitled What's so Great About Salvation? that he wants me to edit/proof. I wonder if there is a lot of overlap with What's so Amazing About Grace?, might have to look into that.
I just looked it up on amazon (love that "peek inside" feature). Dad's is more a look at salvation, the Bi ... ... books including The Jesus I Never Knew If you haven't read this one, I recommend it.
I also appreciated his book What's so Amazing About Grace. Thanks for your well-written synopsis. This prompts me to go back and re-read it (hopefully in 2009.)
38. What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
In What’s so Aamazing About Grace, Philip Yancey, instead of telling us what grace is shows us grace in the lives of individuals through true life stories. So we see grace demonstrated and also its opposite: ungrace.
However ... Whats a Repairman Jack?
I am reading:
1. Rebel by Bernard Cornwell Historical Fiction
2. What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey Religious
3. Every Living Thing by Jamed Herriot Biography
4. A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diane Preston Book Club
5. Jane Eyre ... From rocketjk's library, So What by John F. Szwed ... The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
o 232 Jesus Christ & his family
o 233 Humankind
234 What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
o 235 Spiritual beings
o 236 Eschatology
o 237 Not assigned or no longer used
o 2 ... ... the series.
4. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pulman. Because I recently bought the first book in this series, also.
5. What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey.Because I read and enjoyed The Jesus I Never Knew by the same author. Also, it makes a subtle contrast with Philip Pul ... ... are all my finds today.
Pearls Before Swine: The Crass Menagerie by Stephan Pastis
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
What's so Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
A Continual Feast by Jan Karon
What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland
The Everything Music Theory Book by Marc ... ... me in, though I was steadfastly not going to begin another book until I finished the two endless ones I'm already reading. What's so Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey. Some very fine food for thought. ... on their way Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz can ease them into Mere Christianity. However, I preferred Philip Yancey's What's So Amazing About Grace?.
Now, I know that some Christians who are much more mature in their faith than I am may find a lot of doctrinal problems with Lamott and Mi ... ... y
Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and “Women’s Work”, Dakota, The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace (wrong touchstone on that last one)
(Lamott and Norris are both quite well known and so probably no comment is necessary, except that I think that they’re ... ... Marion Dane Bauer (Short
Stories)
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAYby Michael Chabon (Historical Fiction)
-AMAZING GRACEby Megan Shull (Fiction)
-ANANSI BOYSby Neil Gaiman (Science Fiction)
-ANGELA'S ASHESby Frank McCourt (Memoir)
-ANNIE JOHNby Jamaica Kincaid (Fictio ... Always Coming Home by UKL
And It Was Good by L'Engle
Amazing Grace by Kozol
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Alvin Journeyman by Card (had to hold my nose a bit while including that one)
Amazing Grace movie...really touched me! I was so surprised by how well this movie was done.
Sin Eater.....wasn't quite sure what to expect with this one, but it sure was interesting, especially at the end.
The Passion of the Christ....think I have that right, by Mel Gibson...I ... ... (author of Savage Inequalities and wrote about his experience working with Dr. Fred Rogers in the Bronx in a books called Amazing Grace. I knew he was a great person, but I didn't know all of the work that he had done for children until I read that book. ... popular. About a journalist who investigated the claims of Christ and finds them persuading.
234 Salvation and Grace - What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey - Wonderful, wonderful book. Yancey is a great writer - especially among Christian writers where I swear the bar is set ... ... Theology - Jesus with Dirty Feet by Don Everts
231 God - God: A Biography by Jack Miles
234 Salvation and Grace - What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
242 Devotional Literature - Streams in the Desert by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
248 Christian, Experience, Practice, Life - ... ... world. It's interesting, because the factors you mensioned above remind me of a Christian book I was reading last night {What's so amazing about grace?, if anyone's interested.} It discussed the difference between "looking" Christian and actually feeling, acting and believing Christian.
In ... The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard
What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
Answering God by Eugene Peterson
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters ...
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