40 days of Grace by Rich Miller (Kregel Blog Tours)

I read 40 Days of Grace by Rich Miller for honest review from Kregel Blog Tours. I received a paperback copy of the book. This post contains Amazon affiliate links and images.

The book is a 40 day workbook on grace. The sections are organized by weeks and then days.

1. Week 1 Amazing Grace
2. Week 2 Canceling the guilt trip
3. Week 3: From Disgrace to Grace
4. Week 4 From fear to faith
5. Week 5 The power of humility
6. Week 6 The grace-rest life.

God provides us grace so we don't have rely on ourselves. Ephesians 2, verses 8 to 9 says:

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast (p. 15). The book also says Grace plus Faith equals salvation from sin and the penalties of sin (p. 15)

Other things the book says about grace:

1. God's grace must be received by faith. (p. 16 I think). 
2. Grace is  God freely giving us what we don't deserve...
3. God gives us freedom to fail (p. 27)
4. God never gives up waiting for us to return back to him (p. 28)
5. It is possible to do all the right things for the wrong reasons (p. 39). 
6. God's grace helps us turn away from sin daily (p. 43). 
7. Grace gives us the power to forgive (p. 44). 
8. Love involves grace because grace is from God (p. 49). 
9. Grace rescues us from guilt (p. 51). 

I struggle with guilt over past mistakes. Even though I have learned from some of them, I still feel regret, guilt, and shame. I also struggle with understanding grace. 

The beginning of each chapter provides a story, such as the author meeting his wife in Day 1. The end of each chapter gives a thoughts, truths, questions, and a talk with God. Each day is a short read with life-changing guidance. 

The book is Prime Eligible on Amazon. 

My Books Giveaway

For the Month of June, I am giving away one of my books (paperback). Either, Chocolate Kisses, Love.Lust.Life., or Conversations.

Chocolate Kisses is a book of poetry, dedicated to a former addicktion of mine. The book does contain sexual content. Started writing poems about him in 2005. The book ended up as therapy. Finishing it meant ending an addiction.

Love.Lust.Life. is another book of poetry. It does contain sexual content but covers other topics. My second book of poetry focuses on three aspects of my life. This book is more in depth with my feelings, emotions, struggles. Most of the poems were written between 2008 to 2010. I went through a crush, a miscarriage, graduation from school. I went through a lot mentally. Love.Lust.Life. was originally the first book and Chocolate Kisses was a part of LLL. I decided to break the two apart to separate two aspects of my life. Love focuses on being in love, unrequited love, the fantasy of being in love. Lust focuses on my sexuality. Life focuses on some of the things I went through

Conversations is a collection of short stories, I wrote. 3 was written for a contest for Lulu. One started out as a novel for NaNoWriMo, but I did not finish. and the last deals with some thoughts I have about sexuality.

The stories include:

• Conversing with Normality was about a conversation I had with my oldest child, who is autistic. He was hungry and I was struggling to figure out what to feed him, when we had nothing to eat. 
• Conversing with Salvation was about a conversation I had with God about my Children's salvation. Will Brad truly understand God's grace and mercy? It is my responsibility to make sure my son learns about God, despite his disabilities.
• Miscarried was about the pain I felt dealing with multiple miscarriages. The story became 600 words of therapy for me. 
• Conversing with Sexuality discusses my journey towards Celibacy. 
• First Attempt is a mini-short story, I wrote for National Novel Writing Month. This is the beginning of a story, based on things, which occurred between my sons and I.

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