Amazing Grace for Survivors: 51 Stories of Faith, Hope & Perseverance
About this ebook
As Christians, we recognize that life’s struggles can bring us strength and peace even if the challenges remain. This means that surviving is more than merely getting through an ordealÑit is being triumphant in spirit, regardless of the outcome.
In Amazing Grace for Survivors, you will will witness God’s power as He forms and strengthens ordinary people who faced extraordinary circumstances. You will experience the pain in these stories and share the glory of their triumph. In the end, their grace becomes yours, for we are one body in Christ.
In Amazing Grace for Survivors, you will meet:
- A man with cancer whose fear of dying teaches him how to live.
- A disabled girl who comes to understand that all life is precious.
- A woman who fights to adopt her son from Vietnam, and then fears she only brought him home to die.
- A heartbroken mother that learns to trust that her autistic son is in God’s hands.
- A mother that hunts down her drug-addicted daughter and brings her home.
- …and many more
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About the author
Jeff Cavins served as a Protestant minister for twelve years before returning to the Catholic faith. His story is chronicled in his autobiography, My Life on the Rock (Ascension Press). Jeff is best-known as the founding host of the popular EWTN television program Life on the Rock. With Matthew Pinto, he is the co-creator of the Amazing Grace series, and is the author of Iím Not Being Fed: Discovering the Food that Satisfies the Soul (Ascension, 2005). Jeff is also the creator and principal author of The Great Adventure, a popular Bible study program. He and his wife, Emily, reside in Minnesota with their three daughters.
Matthew Pinto is the author of the best-selling question-and-answer book Did Adam & Eve Have Belly Buttons? (Ascension, 1998), co-author of Did Jesus Have a Last Name? (Ascension, 2005), and co-author of A Guide to the Passion (Ascension/Catholic Exchange, 2004). Matt is co-founder of several Catholic organizations, including CatholicExchange.com, Envoy magazine, and the Theology of the Body Institute. He is the creator, with Jeff Cavins, of the Amazing Grace series. Matt and his wife, Maryanne, live in Pennsylvania with their five sons.
Patti Maguire Armstrong worked in the fields of social work and public administration before staying home full-time to raise her children. As a freelance writer, Patti has written more than 400 articles for both secular and religious publications. She has authored the book Catholic Truths for Our Children (www.raisingcatholickids.com) as a guide to help parents pass on the Catholic faith to their children and served as co-editor of four Amazing Grace books. Patti and her husband, Mark, live in North Dakota with their ten children.
Luke Armstrong is a graduate of North Dakota State University, with a double major in philosophy and English and a minor in Spanish. After spending his final semester studying in ValparaÌso, Chile, he spent four months traveling through Central and South America. He is currently living in Antigua, Guatemala, where he is the program director for the charity Nuestros Ahijados as part of the Godís Child Project (www.godschild.com). Luke is also a freelance writer currently looking to publish his first novel, Leaving Left Behind.
