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Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace | 
 enlarge | Author: Cathleen Falsani
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 031027947X
Dewey Decimal Number: 234
EAN: 9780310279471
ASIN: 031027947X
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.
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Honest and Affirming December 16, 2008
This book puts you on the lookout for grace. Falsani finds it in unlikely places and opens your eyes to do the same. I love the book - when I was finished, started over again to savor it. Thank you Cathleen Falsani!
Sin Boldly offers wit and insight December 16, 2008
The title gets your attention and so do the stories that journalist Cathleen Falsani tells. The subtitle - "A Field Guide for Grace" -- is really what this book is about. It's not a theological treatise. It's a very human look at moments in Falsani's life when she was open to a sense that God was breaking through in some way. She has a eye for detail and a writing style that makes you feel as though you are sitting with a good friend whose wisdom illuminates previously unseen corners of life.
Grace... why yes it is everywhere... ;) November 7, 2008
The title was definetly an eye catcher for me and caused me to be rather curious as to what does it mean to Sin Boldly... and is that as a Christian a good thing... aren't we called to not sin...?
After I got out of my cloud of confusion of what direction the book would take I was surprised both by the simplicity and beauty of language. Falsani went through stories of her life by painting pictures of the experiences that God has guided her through. We have all learned at least one definition of the word grace, however Falsani tells a story of how grace prevails even in the most dire of circumstances. From remote villages in Africa, to Katrina destroyed areas, to a funeral for the late Pope.
How often do you look for grace to emerge from the ashes? How often do you pray for grace to come and over come the ugly of this world? But it does... it really does... I had never thought of grace touching each experience in my life. This book doesn't contain a ton of theological rock your brain until something convicting and wowing pops out about grace. Rather, takes a more simple don't overlook experiences look at grace. It truly is everywhere and even if you don't think you have experienced it in one way or another, you need to take a step back and realize that you really have.
one of the best books i've read this year October 14, 2008
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wow.
let me shoot straight: this is one of the best books i have read this year.
falsani has writtten an absolutely stunning book about grace. i could not recommend this book more highly.
sin boldly is a gorgeous, wandering, adventure in looking for (and finding) grace. it's not a theological treatise (though it has real-world theological implications dripping off every page). instead, falsani uses questions, searching, stories, and reflections to dig around and unearth a three-dimensional grace. there's an almost "amazing race" vibe to the book, as she takes readers on a 'round-the-world grace-seeking adventure. but it's not a heart-pounding amazing race -- it's an amazing grace race with space and slow and quiet and small noticing. it's a spiritual quest, delivered with humility, frailty, imperfection, stumbling, insight, a-ha moments, and a cast of characters all-the-better in that they're real.
i'll be honest about this: i was regularly surprised, as i read, that my parent company, zondervan, published this book. and, as much as i love my parent company, i don't really mean that as a compliment (except in the fact that i'm both astounded and pleasantly shocked that this brilliant and rough manuscript made it through the editorial process in a major christian publishing house). falsani is not your everyday christian bookstore writer. put it this way: the book is more anne lammot than it is beth moore.
i'll be adding "sin boldly" to my list of most-often recommended books, along with my other "friends", like:
messy spirituality and dangerous wonder, by mike yaconelli
traveling mercies and grace (eventually), by anne lammot
take this bread, by sara miles
the life you've always wanted, by john ortberg
and a few books by parker palmer and frederich buechner
this book moved me deeply, and gave me hope. i didn't want it to end.
helpful, delightful and grace-filled October 13, 2008
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If along with most people you've ever wondered what God possibly could do to transform your pitiful attitudes and pathetic lack of alignment with the demands of the commands, this collection of stories from Chicago Sun-Times religion columnist Cathleen Falsani's recent peregrinations will give you hope and keep you keepin' on, since God lovingly reigns with showers of mercy-filled grace, no matter who, no matter what, no matter when.
On page 57 Cathleen cites a couple of "grace" examples that especially resonate with me: "Sometimes it's having the guts to rebuild, to take a chance, to follow your nose and your heart rather than your head." "Sometimes grace is finding out that your preconceived notions are dead wrong." "And sometimes it's a bowl of watermelon gazpacho when you were expecting Taco Bell."
Discussing the possibility of following precise recipes for spiritual and religious experience and renewal (there aren't any), Cathleen described herself as "rhubarb pie with pistachio ice cream," making me wonder how to describe myself in food, and maybe how I'd describe some of the people I've met.
Cathleen's book chronicles God's "audacious" grace, as she sometimes styles it; and in its free, elusive, characteristically unanticipated and unexpectedness, Grace is audacious, bold and wild. But just as much, grace often is physically tastable, audible, visible, aromatic and touchable: incarnate and enfleshed; in that case, where can grace lead us? What is our response in the Spirit to the Divine Image in which we've been created?
I predict you'll enjoy this book, you'll recommend it and you'll probably want to read it again!
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