Stumbling into Grace: Confessions of a Sometimes Spiritually Clumsy Woman by Lisa Harper
I love Lisa Harper's sense of humor, her charming personality and her way of weaving biblical application into modern day life. She seems like someone you'd want to meet for coffee or just hang out with! Lisa Harper is very active on the Christian lecture circuit, specifically with the group Women of Faith, and I will be adding her to my “bucket list” as someone to go hear.
Using her own life's humorous moments, she carefully weaves the reader around to a full view of Christ and His desire for us to let go and trust. Each chapter is set up to tackle a certain area of a woman's walk with God. She giftedly takes life events that we all deal with, shares her experience and struggles, then shares her understanding of how the Bible would have us respond. Harper’s stories made me smile as I related her stories to my own life.
At the end of each chapter there is a prayer, followed by personal or group reflection questions and then an area for a journal entry. I found the personal reflection questions really helpful, to go through at the end of each chapter, in order to go deeper on the chapter topic on a personal level. Topics covered in this book include things such as fear, forgiveness, humor, rest and honesty.
Cover Information: Stumbling Into Grace is the diary-devotional of one woman's honest, ongoing, bumbling journey of faith and how she finds encouragement through a deeper understanding of Christ's time on earth. Within each chapter she alternates her often humorous memoir with stirring portraits of Jesus and his own encounters as recorded in the New Testament.
Both intimately relevant and refreshingly inspirational, this book would work well as part of a group setting, like a devotional/book club type thing with group discussions.
I gave this book four stars even though I must admit, I fell in love with the cover first!
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