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What's So Amazing About Grace? Leader's Guide
Experience the Impact of Grace It's one thing to talk about grace; it's another to taste its power. What's So Amazing About Grace? Groupware takes you and your study group for interactive, gut-level encounters with radical, life-changing grace. Through candid video interviews, Philip Yancey integrates true-life faces and experiences with 10 powerful sessions that will rock your preconceptions, get you thinking and talking, and help you discover together why grace is more amazing than you've ever dreamed. As group leader, you'll find this Leader' Guide an invaluable companion. It makes facilitating What's So Amazing About Grace? group studies easy and enjoyable. Simply follow the clear, easy-to-follow instructions, plug in the video, and let Philip Yancey introduce you and your group to each session. The tips and insights will help you help your group experience the full, transforming impact of the What's So Amazing About Grace? Groupware. Space is provided for you to personalize each session with your own planning notes. Because this book also includes the pages from the Participant's Guide, organized to help you track page for page with your group, it's the only guidebook you need. If you're ready to discover grace as more than just a fluffy concept, buckle your seat belt. You and your group are about to take a journey to the radical heart and soul of Christianity. The next life grace changes could be yours. What's So Amazing About Grace? Groupware complete kit 1 120-minute video containing introductions by Philip Yancey, complete with live interviews and other material 1 Participant's Guide (additional copies may be purchased separately) 1 Leader's Guide with everything you need for conducting powerful sessions with minimal preparation 1 hardcover copy of the book What's So Amazing About Grace?
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128 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2000
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About the author
Philip Yancey
299 books2,393 followersA native of Atlanta, Georgia, Philip Yancey earned graduate degrees in Communications and English from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago. He joined the staff of Campus Life Magazine in 1971, and worked there as Editor and then Publisher. He looks on those years with gratitude, because teenagers are demanding readers, and writing for them taught him a lasting principle: The reader is in control!
In 1978 Philip Yancey became a full-time writer, initially working as a journalist for such varied publications as Reader’s Digest, Publisher’s Weekly, National Wildlife, Christian Century and The Reformed Journal. For several years he contributed a monthly column to Christianity Today magazine, where he also served as Editor at Large.
In 2021 Philip released two new books: A Companion in Crisis and his long-awaited memoir, Where the Light Fell. Other favorites included in his more than twenty-five titles are: Where Is God When It Hurts, The Student Bible, and Disappointment with God. Philip's books have won thirteen Gold Medallion Awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, have sold more than seventeen million copies, and have been published in over 50 languages. Christian bookstore managers selected The Jesus I Never Knew as the 1996 Book of the Year, and in 1998 What’s So Amazing About Grace? won the same award. His other recent books are Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image; Vanishing Grace: Bringing Good News to a Deeply Divided World; The Question that Never Goes Away; What Good Is God?; Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?; Soul Survivor; and Reaching for the Invisible God. In 2009 a daily reader was published, compiled from excerpts of his work: Grace Notes.
The Yanceys lived in downtown Chicago for many years before moving to a very different environment in Colorado. Together they enjoy mountain climbing, skiing, hiking, and all the other delights of the Rocky Mountains.
Visit Philip online:
https://www.philipyancey.com
https://www.facebook.com/PhilipYancey
Catch his monthly blog:
https://bit.ly/PhilipYanceyBlog
In 1978 Philip Yancey became a full-time writer, initially working as a journalist for such varied publications as Reader’s Digest, Publisher’s Weekly, National Wildlife, Christian Century and The Reformed Journal. For several years he contributed a monthly column to Christianity Today magazine, where he also served as Editor at Large.
In 2021 Philip released two new books: A Companion in Crisis and his long-awaited memoir, Where the Light Fell. Other favorites included in his more than twenty-five titles are: Where Is God When It Hurts, The Student Bible, and Disappointment with God. Philip's books have won thirteen Gold Medallion Awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, have sold more than seventeen million copies, and have been published in over 50 languages. Christian bookstore managers selected The Jesus I Never Knew as the 1996 Book of the Year, and in 1998 What’s So Amazing About Grace? won the same award. His other recent books are Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image; Vanishing Grace: Bringing Good News to a Deeply Divided World; The Question that Never Goes Away; What Good Is God?; Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?; Soul Survivor; and Reaching for the Invisible God. In 2009 a daily reader was published, compiled from excerpts of his work: Grace Notes.
The Yanceys lived in downtown Chicago for many years before moving to a very different environment in Colorado. Together they enjoy mountain climbing, skiing, hiking, and all the other delights of the Rocky Mountains.
Visit Philip online:
https://www.philipyancey.com
https://www.facebook.com/PhilipYancey
Catch his monthly blog:
https://bit.ly/PhilipYanceyBlog
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July 11, 2008
If all the assholes in the world would read this book, we could finally kick-off that global Kumbaya session I've been rallying for since high school.
This book is no mere Christian pep talk; it is moral philosophy that would make Plato burst out of the Lyceum to proclaim the slaughter of the fattened calf. And by that I mean it's good. Damn good.
Cristian philosophy got a bad wrap during the medieval period after Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas published their writings, several of which remain the most turgid acts of sophistry in all of human history. In so doing, Augustine and Aquinas sought to rectify the divinely revealed precepts of Christianity with the well-developed classical thought of Plato and Aristotle. The result was reams of utterly useless, hyper-technical proofs regarding the nature of god's being. No one cares about their work today (other than philosophy profs) because most of it is so profoundly unpractical that reading it is a waste of time.
This book gloriously reverses that trend. Yancy argues that "grace", which he defines as forgiveness (albeit more thoroughly), is the salvation not only of humans as individuals, but of communities and civilizations as well. He offers countless examples of how our human instinct for vengeance (and justice?) poisons and destroys humanity, whereas an enlightened preference for forgiveness preempts the cycle of "ungrace" and leads to peace and, one is tempted to infer, the aforementioned round of kumbaya (though Yancy is too humble to say it himself).
This book is everything Christian thought should be: valid without resort to revelation or previously accepted precepts, and yet compatible with--and indeed supportive of--a resolutely theistic world view. For that reason, though I would describe this book as a work of "Christian" philosophy, by the nature of its message it invites a readership of Jews, atheists, Hindus, Islamics, agnostics, and whoever else desires to seek out and understand what is good and right in this world--what it means to live a "just" and "moral" life. I think Christian philosophy should strive to be valid even if the theistic assumption is false. Yancy apparently does too: he proceeds by appealing to independently valid ideas and simply supporting them with evidence drawn from the Christian tradition (the life of Jesus, etc.). Plato would be proud.
Pick up a copy tomorrow. And print off the lyrics to Kumbaya while you're at it.
This book is no mere Christian pep talk; it is moral philosophy that would make Plato burst out of the Lyceum to proclaim the slaughter of the fattened calf. And by that I mean it's good. Damn good.
Cristian philosophy got a bad wrap during the medieval period after Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas published their writings, several of which remain the most turgid acts of sophistry in all of human history. In so doing, Augustine and Aquinas sought to rectify the divinely revealed precepts of Christianity with the well-developed classical thought of Plato and Aristotle. The result was reams of utterly useless, hyper-technical proofs regarding the nature of god's being. No one cares about their work today (other than philosophy profs) because most of it is so profoundly unpractical that reading it is a waste of time.
This book gloriously reverses that trend. Yancy argues that "grace", which he defines as forgiveness (albeit more thoroughly), is the salvation not only of humans as individuals, but of communities and civilizations as well. He offers countless examples of how our human instinct for vengeance (and justice?) poisons and destroys humanity, whereas an enlightened preference for forgiveness preempts the cycle of "ungrace" and leads to peace and, one is tempted to infer, the aforementioned round of kumbaya (though Yancy is too humble to say it himself).
This book is everything Christian thought should be: valid without resort to revelation or previously accepted precepts, and yet compatible with--and indeed supportive of--a resolutely theistic world view. For that reason, though I would describe this book as a work of "Christian" philosophy, by the nature of its message it invites a readership of Jews, atheists, Hindus, Islamics, agnostics, and whoever else desires to seek out and understand what is good and right in this world--what it means to live a "just" and "moral" life. I think Christian philosophy should strive to be valid even if the theistic assumption is false. Yancy apparently does too: he proceeds by appealing to independently valid ideas and simply supporting them with evidence drawn from the Christian tradition (the life of Jesus, etc.). Plato would be proud.
Pick up a copy tomorrow. And print off the lyrics to Kumbaya while you're at it.
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August 18, 2016
Awesome insight into how one can understand / remember that we are saved through grace and the grace that we have been given should be passed onto those in our lives.. regardless of whether or not they are following Christ. I highly recommend it. Also gave some good insight into the early beginnings of Hillary Clintons earlier days and who she was before her time in the white house.
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May 8, 2008The most important book I've read in the past years...
...a book full of God's GRACE.
...a book full of God's GRACE.
April 14, 2016
Can't say no to Yancey's books.
A great recap, reminder of Jesus's Grace! or rather JEsus IS grace!
A great recap, reminder of Jesus's Grace! or rather JEsus IS grace!
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