Scandalous Grace

Grace is a dangerous topic. We want to domesticate it, calm it down, and stuff it into a blue blazer and a pair of khakis. But biblical grace-or charis-doesn’t like to settle down. Grace is a dangerous topic because the Bible is a dangerous book.Scandalous Grace flows from the author’s half dozen years of teaching the Old Testament to college students. You might think that would produce a book about judgment - but he shows how every character, every event, every single page of the Old Testament bleeds grace. Rather than looking for heroes to emulate - readers discover a gracious God who loves to redeem the unredeemable.Review“We often think that grace enters the Bible when Jesus appeared. However, Preston shows us that within the pages of the confusing, sometimes bizarre, and often war-filled pages of the Old Testament, there is heaps and heaps of grace. And the more we look, the more grace we see-grace that melts our hearts in worship of our God who shows His overwhelming, mind-blowin