Stumbling Into Grace

Something new for me on this corner.  I have been praying about adding to this blog and sharing other things with my readers about my Christian walk. Since I am an avid reader and many programs are offered for free books to anyone who will review the book at least two places on the internet, I have decided this will be my next route. I will continue to share my walking experiences but at intervals will include a new book review. I hope you will enjoy them. 
Keep walking. 




Real life, Real Gifts and Real Growth divide Lisa Harper’s STUMBLING INTO GRACE. Lisa confesses quite frankly that her goal “is for the lisping prose to compel readers to lean further into the strong, safe embrace of our Redeemer.” Lisa may not quite have me leaning on the Redeemer’s shoulder, but she certainly causes her reader to lean closer and grow in a relationship with the Savior.
Her refreshing admissions of her own stumbling in life are so easy to understand because we have all stumbled in the same daily areas. She opens Chapter 3 “So, today I’ve been thinking about fattening things.” Well who hasn’t done that? Lisa continues to discuss temptations and addictions both physical and spiritual. 
In another chapter she discusses real growth. She relates her struggle to depend more completely on God. Her acknowledgment of her grief at the death of her step-father and her need to depend on the Lord during this time. Each personal illustration is one that as a woman I can so easily relate to and her use of Scripture gives me answers to those stumbling times. 

Three sections at the end of each chapter are the exercises that make me lean “into the strong, safe embrace” that she refers to in her opening words. Reacting to the sections Living in Light of His Story, Personal Reflection and/or Group discussion, and Journal Entry helps me to recognize that I ,too, have stumbled into Grace.

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