Faith and Grace explores the vital balance between true biblical faith and the transforming power of God’s grace in a world pulled toward both moral chaos and rigid legalism. Drawing from Paul’s message to the Romans and decades of missionary experience, Russell Stendal shows that genuine faith is heartfelt dependence on God, and grace is His power to change us from within. This timely book calls believers back to the vibrant, overcoming life Christ intended.
Description
Faith and Grace: Total Dependence on God addresses one of the most urgent spiritual challenges of our time: a world swinging wildly between the extremes of unchecked moral chaos and rigid legalism. As paganism resurges across the secular West—and legalistic mindsets tighten their grip in other cultures—Russell Stendal shines a timely light on the balanced, transformative message found in Paul’s letter to the Romans.
Stendal explains how the same biblical truths that helped overturn the pagan Roman Empire and break the chains of legalism in the early church are desperately needed today. He exposes how the enemy has long attempted to distort key biblical terms, twist doctrine, and reduce faith to either emotionless ritual or mere intellectual agreement. True faith, he argues, is a living, ongoing heart‑level dependence on God. And grace is far more than “unmerited favor”—it is God’s active power to change us, strengthen us, and enable us to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Drawing from decades of missionary experience in Colombia, including work among rebels, government leaders, and remote communities, Stendal writes with both biblical depth and firsthand testimony of God’s transforming grace. Faith and Grace invites readers to rediscover the life‑altering truth that Christianity is not about striving in our own strength—but about total reliance on the One who changes us from the inside out.
Faith and Grace
Description
Faith and Grace: Total Dependence on God addresses one of the most urgent spiritual challenges of our time: a world swinging wildly between the extremes of unchecked moral chaos and rigid legalism. As paganism resurges across the secular West—and legalistic mindsets tighten their grip in other cultures—Russell Stendal shines a timely light on the balanced, transformative message found in Paul’s letter to the Romans.
Stendal explains how the same biblical truths that helped overturn the pagan Roman Empire and break the chains of legalism in the early church are desperately needed today. He exposes how the enemy has long attempted to distort key biblical terms, twist doctrine, and reduce faith to either emotionless ritual or mere intellectual agreement. True faith, he argues, is a living, ongoing heart‑level dependence on God. And grace is far more than “unmerited favor”—it is God’s active power to change us, strengthen us, and enable us to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Drawing from decades of missionary experience in Colombia, including work among rebels, government leaders, and remote communities, Stendal writes with both biblical depth and firsthand testimony of God’s transforming grace. Faith and Grace invites readers to rediscover the life‑altering truth that Christianity is not about striving in our own strength—but about total reliance on the One who changes us from the inside out.
(164 pages)
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