Title: Captured By Grace: No One is Beyond the Reach of a Loving God
Author: Dr. David Jeremiah
Released: August 10, 2010
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Overall: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Grace–It’s a stained-glass, impersonal word until it happens to you…
Until you have been broken beyond belief and need a miracle for your soul. Until you have betrayed a loved one and cannot bring them back. Until you have befriended every darkness and are desperate for the light. That’s when God’s relentless, amazing, very personalized grace finds you.
It reached a slave trader onboard a ship raiding Africa’s coast in March 1748. He later gave the world its most beloved hymn. It struck the Christian church’s most treacherous enemy on a Damascus road in AD 45, and he became the gospel’s greatest messenger. And it can free you too… of any shameful memory, open wound, unthinking mistake, or willful choice.
Encountering God’s grace changes lives forever. Dr. David Jeremiah shows how the transforming mercy that captured songwriter John Newton and the apostle Paul can awaken within you a fresh experience of the God who loves you fearlessly and pursues you with abandon.
Dr. David Jeremiah is an excellent storyteller and he puts that skill to work in Captured by Grace, telling the tales of Paul the apostle and John Newton–two men whose lives were radically changed when they encountered the living Savior. Where many books on basic Christian theology become stale, this one grows ever more intriguing thanks to a plethora of rich metaphors, invented allegories, and historical retellings.
I love the detailed analysis of John Newton’s famous hymn Amazing Grace and the way Jeremiah parallels Newton’s and Paul’s lives. The little sections at the back of each chapter, entitled Moments of Grace, provide inspiration for practical application of the lessons taught in the chapter.
Overall, I found this a very encouraging book, well-written, and full of hope.
Other things you can do:
Visit David Jeremiah’s website.
Purchase a copy of Captured by Grace.
Source: This book was provided to me by Thomas Nelson.
This sounds like one I would really enjoy and get a lot out of. Thanks!
I listen to David Jeremiah all the time on the radio and I saw him when he came to my city last year on tour too. Awesome teacher!
My church is doing a video series based on one of David Jeremiah’s books–about living well in the chaos of this world. He’s been inspiring! I’ll have to keep this book in mind for the future!
Definitely do! It’s worth taking the time to read!