My Rad Life, a Journal by Schatz and Stahl

An inspiring, empowering journal that encourages its owners to think, create, reflect, and explore their own radness.

This journal is meant to be a companion to the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide. I had not heard of those books until I got this journal and was able to enjoy it on it's own.The journal features pictures of a wide range of inspirational and diverse women, from Gloria Steinem to Beyoncé, Shirley Chisholm to Michelle Obama, Eve Ensler to J.K Rowling. Miriam Klein Stahl’s artwork is bold, fun and adds dimension to the book. The journal is a softcover book, with bright colors and a fun design. It includes blank pages for doodling, lined pages for writing, quotes from the women pictured, and writing prompts to help get your pen flowing on the page. This book makes journaling fun and would make a great gift for tweens or teens.

I received this awesome journal in exchange for my honest review from Blogging for Books .All opinions are 100% my own.

Sinners in the hands of a loving God by Brian Zahnd

 "In his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards’s wrathful God. 

In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us? 
 
Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love."

Brian Zahnd has never been on to be silent or avoid controversy, so taking on the image of God and angry and wrathful was probably something he didn't think twice about. Too often God is portrayed as the angry man in the sky, smiting sinners and hurling them into lakes of fire. Brian takes a different approach, showing us through the text of the bible that God is like Jesus, more loving and desiring of bringing strayed children back to him than just throwing them into hell.

Scripture tells us God and Jesus are one and the same. When we look at the teachings of Jesus we see he taught a lot about turning sinners from their sin and back to him. He taught mercy, love, compassion, forgiveness. The harshest criticisms Jesus ever had were for the hypocrites among the religious elders. Those who thought they were perfect, above others and above reproach. But for the common man, Jesus was more merciful and forgiving. I think that says a lot, and shows that we should teach God's character as less wrathful and more loving and forgiving.

As someone who has been in the church most of her 31 years on this earth, I didn't expect that this book would be anything eye opening, but I was wrong. It's a book I absolutely recommend.  

I recieved this book to review from Blogging for books. My review is 100% my own.