In “Undeserved: Grasping Gods Grace”, Christopher invites you to join his journey of learning how to accept the grace of God into our lives. It is so easy to say that we are covered by His grace, but how do we live in it? How do we take this free gift that God has given us, open it up, and give thanks to our Father for it?

A memoir about loss and grief, finding Jesus and grace amidst the most painful parts of our stories.

This book is about my life struggles, what I’ve been through and how I came out of the fire to the other side. It portraits me struggling in adult relationships, in daily life, and the undeserving grace I have received from God. Mercy and grace had gone hand in hand in my life to form a vessel of belief. There is hope, but only one answer, one way. Walking hand in hand with Jesus is the only way.

Life is often referred to as a journey. Without a doubt, every person who uses that analogy does so from at least a different perspective and likely a different reason. Sometimes it is because they have found life hard, and the term journey represents the struggle and its length they have experienced. There is some of that factor in our so titling the book. Other times, it is used to express finding life delivering beyond their expectations, and the experience took them where they never imagined going. There is that factor in our so titling the book also. Sometimes it is because life seems mundane, repetitious, and they feel caught in its cycle. There is nothing of that in our book. There is a poem called "Footprints in the Sand" by Mary Fishback Powers that illustrates the caring hand of God she experienced in hard times of life when she saw only one set of prints. Too often, that is all we look for""help in the parts of life's journey we think we need help with. True, we should look for that, but the promise of God to his children is, "I will never leave nor forsake you;" good or hard times. This book was written to demonstrate the truth and reality of that promise made over 200 times in various wordings of the Bible. This book was written""no, had to be written""so every child of God is alertly looking for what God is doing for them every day in ways they have not considered before. Then experience the amazement of realizing their Journey has been part of the Creator's plan from the beginning, who works all things according to his good and perfect will, so that they can know purpose and blessing in life and not just an aimless Journey.

We often wear the tattered remnants of unfathomable hurt and trauma heaped upon us by others. Dysfunction grows as the pain pours over us. Trapped in a chaotic existence, we desperately seek a different direction without knowing how to find it. Carrying the scars inflicted on us, we wound ourselves more deeply with the sharp weapon of shame. What do you do when forgiveness is undeserved? When you are a victim of unimaginable pain? How do you move on? How do you escape from the ties of your tormentors? How can you find freedom and peace? Julie Giles knows the devastating agony of horrific abuse. She has lived a life bound by this and a life set free. She has struggled, suffered, and pushed to release the weight of a past bound by distrust and destructive patterns. She speaks with an honest vulnerability that will stir your soul and inspire you to grow. In her poignant book you will learn: - How to interrupt dysfunctional patterns - Freedom from pain - Release from shame - Courage to confront past problems - The role of forgiveness

It is widely assumed that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. Leslie McCall contends that such assumptions are based on both incomplete survey data and economic conditions of the past and not present. In fact, Americans have desired less inequality for decades, and McCall's book explains why. Americans become most concerned about inequality in times of inequitable growth, when they view the rich as prospering while opportunities for good jobs, fair pay and high quality education are restricted for everyone else. As a result, they favor policies to expand opportunity and redistribute earnings in the workplace, reducing inequality in the market rather than redistributing income after the fact with tax and spending policies. This book resolves the paradox of how Americans can express little enthusiasm for welfare state policies and still yearn for a more equitable society, and forwards a new model of preferences about income inequality rooted in labor market opportunities rather than welfare state policies.