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This is a book that has been bouncing around in my head for a couple of years now. In my years of teaching Bible study at the Lake County Juvenile Detention Center, I would frequently get questions about different aspects of the Christian life and not always have the time available to answer them properly. Being a detention center, there is frequent turnover and I often see young people only once or twice. For a few years now I've wished I had something to give them to help answer the questions. 

 Grace Changes Everything is that book. I had a list of 9-10 topics that I wanted to cover, but just couldn't figure out a way to make it all flow without sounding like a textbook. Then, one Sunday in church, I heard the statement, "Grace changes everything," and immediately said to myself - "There's the 'hook'!"

That was worked into a lesson which was expanded into nine lessons over the summer of 2025. I have watched God's grace impact countless lives over 19 years of teaching at detention center. I have experienced His grace impact my life. I pray that God will use this humble offering to impact many more lives for eternity. 

Print and Kindle available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Grace-Changes-Everything-John-Vincent/dp/B0FPLXCPHN/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

Digital copy available on Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/grace-changes-everything/id6751821545

Our Desperate Need

Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

58 people shot in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend.

Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina.

Today, Evergreen High School in Colorado.

Charlie Kirk in Utah. 

It seems as though it is a never ending parade of people's lives being torn apart by violence. But at the same time, it seems as though we have become a culture desensitized to violence and cowed into complacency.

Not By Works

 

"Just as our good works can't save us, our good works also cannot keep us saved. Our salvation is not achieved by good works nor is it sustained by them." 

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost." Titus 3:5

If It Was Up to Me

In Grace Changes Everything, I begin each chapter with a short quote. The quote tends to be relevant to the topic of the chapter and helps to set the stage for what is to come in the chapter. It is a habit I picked up from a teacher I have worked with, and while I'm not trying to copy someone else's style, I do like the effect it has.

One of the quotes is from a song by Ben Fuller. Ben has quite the testimony. At 16, he had been living a life of depravity and attempted to take his own life, even to the point of having the gun barrel in his mouth. But as he states, "God wouldn't let me pull the trigger." 

Ben moved to Nashville--as so many do--to break into the country music scene. He continued to struggle, and one day he met a couple who were from Vermont, where he had grown up. They invited him to church, and because of the Vermont connection, he accepted. 

To hear "Well Done"

"It's not about the amount of talent or responsibility God has given you; it is all about what you do with it and how faithful you are with it."

Chapter 6--Well Done, Grace Changes Everything

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Kindle Pre-Order is live!

 Kindle copies of Grace Changes Everything are now available for pre-order! By pre-ordering, Amazon will automatically deliver the Kindle book to your preferred device on October 1, 2025. 

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(unfortunately Amazon does not have a process for pre-ordering print copies so those will have to be ordered on October 1)

Advance Reader Copies!

Advance Reader Copies (ARC) arrived today! This will never get old. There's something about holding the culmination of all the work, research, and study. Can't wait for this to release!

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