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 ears---and out of one man's grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the church's great distinction. 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 this book, 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? Grace does not excuse sin, says Yancey, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous. It shakes our conventional way of thought with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope.
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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 ears—and out of one man's grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the church’s great distinction. 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 this book 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? Grace does not excuse sin, say 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.
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Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written thirteen 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. Yancey lives with his wife in Colorado. SPANISH BIO: Philip Yancey es un autor que ha ganado premios, editor general de Christianity Today y colaborador de publicaciones tales como Books and Culture. Entre algunos de sus exitos se encuentran: El Jesus que nunca conoci y Gracia divina vs. condena humana.
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Entendiendo el amor de Dios por el pecador,
This review is from: Gracia divina vs. condena humana (Paperback)
Este es un libro que merece leerse varias veces... Phillip Yancey toca un tema difícil pero absolutamente necesario en un tiempo donde el hombre se aparta de Dios y comete errores que lo separan todavía más de Él. Como cristianos nos hace falta tener un comprensión correcta de las formas cómo Dios nos ve, de cómo nos podemos acercar a Él cuando estamos en pecado, y de cómo su corazón puede ser formado en nosotros para acercarnos a aquellos maltrechos por los caminos equivocados de la vida. El libro habla de la inmensa gracia de Dios, de los ejemplos concretos de esta gracia manifestados en Jesús, de las parábolas ilustrativas, del amor extravagante del Padre, del perdón que es para nosotros un acto "antinatural". Para ello usa historias, recursos narrativos que llegan a lo profundo del corazón. A la par toca problemas tan difíciles donde la gracia es comprometida muchas veces por el institucionalismo, el legalismo, la rigidez, el orgullo, retándonos a buscar la fuente principal que nos debe guiar permanéntemente, la Gracia de Dios, en lugar de la tendencia humana a condenar. La fiesta de Babette es la parábola moderna del gran festín dónde irán solo los enfermos, rechazados, adictos, corruptos, quebrantados emocionales que Dios quiere salvar a través de Jesús. Y la escritura de Yancey nos reta a cambiar nuestra vida eclesiástica y religiosa para que la "Casa del Padre" quede abierta a los enfermos, necesitados y todos aquellos que no tienen pastor en esta sociedad post-moderna. Honestamente, se trata de uno de los mejores libros cristianos, y de los más desafiantes, que he leído en los últimos cinco años.
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La verdad de la Gracia de Dios aùn nos cuesta digerirla,
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Desde C.S. Lewis no habia leido tan buen escritor como Yancey, es un hombre valiente y pragmático, me gusta porque se toma su tiempo y riesgo para exponer un tema tan importante como la gracia de Dios, pero que debiera ser reflejada tal cual es a travès de los hijos de Dios.Querido lector, si a usted le gusta verse a si mismo y reflexionar acerca de su vida y hacia donde se dirige de manera sistematica y constantemente, debe procurar leer este libro, este libro es una joya, para aquellos que nos interesa encontrarnos con la voluntad de Dios. Quiero advertir que este libro desnuda a la iglesia de hoy y el lector que quiera descubrir en sus pàginas algo relevante quedara sorprendo por la sencilles de las apresiaciones de Yancey.
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I have read the original version of Yancey's book and was so impressed. The best explanation of the life of grace Christian's should lead. I bought this Spanish book for my mom and she breezed through it. She loved it! I hope it makes the same difference in her life that it made in mine.
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En mi libro El Jesus que nunca conoci, contaba un relato de lavida real que por mucho tiempo ha permanecido en mi mente. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
las grandes palabras, padre enfermo, del aborto, los serbios, aquellas cartas, empeorar las cosas, por vez primera, las injusticias, derechos civiles, barrios bajos, los homosexuales, sin embargo, nos ama, los fariseos, aquellos momentos, por largo tiempo, sin hogar, las iglesias, los pecadores, del evangelio, las cuestiones, aquellos tiempos, ser bueno, las hermanas, sus enemigos Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Estados Unidos, Antiguo Testamento, Nuevo Testamento, Madre Teresa, Casa Blanca, Bill Clinton, Will Campbell, Jessye Norman, Traverse City, Billy Graham, Jonathan Daniels, Karl Barth, Mel White, Helmut Thielicke, Oriente Medio, Ralph Reed, Randall Terry, Simone Weil, Adolfo Hitler, Alemania Occidental, Corte Suprema, George Herbert, Gordon Wilson, Henri Nouwen, Hillary Clinton New!
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En mi libro El Jesus que nunca conoci, contaba un relato de lavida real que por mucho tiempo ha permanecido en mi mente. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
las grandes palabras, padre enfermo, del aborto, los serbios, aquellas cartas, empeorar las cosas, por vez primera, las injusticias, derechos civiles, barrios bajos, los homosexuales, sin embargo, nos ama, los fariseos, aquellos momentos, por largo tiempo, sin hogar, las iglesias, los pecadores, del evangelio, las cuestiones, aquellos tiempos, ser bueno, las hermanas, sus enemigos Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Estados Unidos, Antiguo Testamento, Nuevo Testamento, Madre Teresa, Casa Blanca, Bill Clinton, Will Campbell, Jessye Norman, Traverse City, Billy Graham, Jonathan Daniels, Karl Barth, Mel White, Helmut Thielicke, Oriente Medio, Ralph Reed, Randall Terry, Simone Weil, Adolfo Hitler, Alemania Occidental, Corte Suprema, George Herbert, Gordon Wilson, Henri Nouwen, Hillary Clinton New!
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- Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Edition) by N. T. Biblia on page 211, page 285, and page 313
- Brother to a Dragonfly by Will Campbell on page 165, and Back Matter
- Selected Poems by C. K. Williams in Back Matter
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis in Back Matter
- How the World Began: Sermons on the Creation Story by Helmut Thielicke in Back Matter
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