The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

As Christianity is unique among world religions, so is the grace Christ offers.

This book describes a very personal journey for me, spawned by a crisis with my father, which sent me on a lifelong quest to solve the riddle of grace. Along the way, I found the undeniable evidence of grace in the life of a Korean orphan; in a teenage addict; in a homeless felon; in a humiliated pastor; in a famous preacher’s son who was living a wasted and vapid life; and in a Cambodian man who fled the Khmer Rouge, only to find his life intertwined with a notorious war criminal.

Each story contributes a piece to the grace puzzle, showing how grace goes beyond forgiveness to acceptance and even adoption by God; how it restores hope when none is left; how it extends to the most heinous circumstances; and how it allows us to forgive those who caused our most intimate wounds — and even to forgive ourselves.

So here are stories for you — true accounts of people whose transformation and renewal are so radical that they are best explained as the work of a gracious God.

—Lee Strobel