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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. This is a well-written, powerful, deeply personal story about God’s amazing work of grace in the author’s life. The beginning was difficult for me to read because of the distress experienced by the author, but it was a very engaging story. I rejoice with Katie in the lavish grace of God she has experienced and continues to live in.This review contains my honest opinions after reading a free ARC of this book from the publisher. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. This is a brutal exposition as a memoir, constantly wrestling with doubts and fears. This powerful book will emotionally affect anyone who has never quite belonged, rebelled against the church, the leaders…against God. As Katie wrote in the last paragraph of chapter 20: “I had believed that I must choose God in order to be loved, but the reality was that God’s love chose me. The world right-sided itself in that instant, and I trembled as the foundations of my life fell out from under me, only to discover that I was standing, for the first time, on solid ground…..I wept as I’d never wept before, with relief, with gratitude, as years of pain poured out of me and hope at last poured in, a new song to replace the well-worn tracks of self-hatred. I’m loved. I’m loved. Oh, my God, my God, I’m loved!” - Katie, you will touch many people's lives as an ordained minister.I write this review having received an advance review copy of the book from LibraryThing and as a practising Christian believer with a strong faith in the grace of our Lord and Saviour,Jesus Christ. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: Katie Langston is an unlikely convert to Christianity. She grew up in a devout, conservative Mormon family in Utah, served a proselytizing mission to Bulgaria when she was 21, married for "time and all eternity" in the Mormon temple when she was 23. From the outside, she had a typical Mormon life. Inside, she was coming apart at the seams. From childhood, she battled "The Questions"??obsessive-compulsive disorder, though she didn't have a diagnosis for it until much later??and lived inside a complex maze of anxiety and fear. This was compounded by Mormonism's emphasis on "worthiness," a designation of acceptability in Mormon practice, that brought her to the edge of despair as a young mother. Then, almost by accident, she had an encounter with the grace of Jesus Christ??and her world changed. In candid but not sensationalized ways, Langston explores little-understood Mormon practices and teachings while grappling with universal human questions such as the nature of faith, the complexity of family, the process of healing, and what it means to truly belong. This book is intended to be a bridge-builder, a way to help non-Mormons understand Mormonism and Mormons orthodox Christianity through the power of personal narrative. Most of all, it is a testimony of Jesus Christ, in the hopes that those who read it??Mormon, Christian, or neither??will catch a glimpse of the spectacular, life-changing gra Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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More importantly, she details the spiritual effects that the Mormon Church had on her because she could never live her life perfectly enough. She found the sense of guilt that this caused emotionally crippling. One night at a lecture about Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, she discovered the true meaning of the word "grace". This opened new spiritual horizons as well as searing spiritual pain as she tried to function within Mormon Church and culture. When she finally realized that she did not need to choose god because God chose her, her life began a totally new trajectory. Happily, from my perspective as a Jesus-follower, she ended up finding her way to the Christian faith and is in the final steps of becoming an ordained Christian pastor in the ELCA. Well-done, Kate Langston! ( )