{"id":694,"date":"2012-12-09T21:22:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2013-01-15T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:31:47","slug":"book-review-grace-by-max-lucado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/book-review-grace-by-max-lucado\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Grace by Max Lucado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Such a big word to only be 5 little letters. It&#8217;s a subject that even a child can understand, but we never fully grasp the full meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Max Lucado does a great job, as usual, of crafting the narrative to keep the reader involved and intrigued. He suggests that grace is available to all &#8211; and needed by all. Yet it is only effective to the extent that we allow it in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>The book itself is well-written and easy to read. It has resources that easily lend it to a study or discussion group. It could also be used as a devotional book &#8211; and is well-suited to be a gift book.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some questions posed &#8211; and answered &#8211; in this book about grace:<\/p>\n<p>Do we really understand it?<br \/>\nHave we settled for wimpy grace?<br \/>\nDo you believe in grace?<br \/>\nHave you been changed by grace?<br \/>\nAre you softened by grace?<br \/>\nHas grace snatched you by your neck and shaken you to your senses?<\/p>\n<p>The book is fleshed out with the author&#8217;s personal stories about grace, along with the stories of others. It accomplishes it&#8217;s purpose as we meditate and reflect on grace &#8211; how it affects us personally and the effect of grace in the lives of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Lucado does a great job, as usual, of crafting the narrative to keep the reader involved and intrigued. He suggests that grace is available to all &#8211; and needed by all. Yet it is only effective to the extent that we allow it in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-rev","tag-discipleship","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lucado_Grace.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-bc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}