I recently borrowed a friend's copy of "What's So Amazing About Grace?" but not the regular book (which I have & I read years ago) but a small paperback copy called the Visual Edition. I was a bit skeptical at first, and I'm not a real artsy person by nature. And Phillip Yancey mentions in the intro that he was initially skeptical too about "someone messing with his book." But what that "someone" (a bunch of artists, in reality) has done is create a beautiful, thought-provoking piece on the marvelous and counterintuitive idea of grace, by mixing excerpts from the book along with some great photographic and other visual imagery.
Their use of fonts, colors, and spacing is superb. This book will make you think. It will make you uncomfortable. It might even make you cry as you realize more of the depths of God's unquenchable grace towards us as rebellious people, and towards you as a rebellious person (Romans 5:1-2, 17).
I've put it on my Christmas list, and I suggest you do, too. Who knows? Maybe someone will give it to you even if you've been naughty this year...
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