Carnage & Grace

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The picture on the cover is always hard for me to look at. It was taken in the Spring of 2018 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. I was sitting quietly by myself and just happened to look up when my wife Stacie snapped the picture. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Every time I see this photo I'm reminded of how sad I was. I had wrecked my life three years earlier and lost everything. I was still staggering from the internal and external consequences of it all-the guilt the regret the shame. I was hopeless most days convinced I'd never be happy again.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I still feel like that sometimes. But thankfully not as often as I used to. I'm broken but breathing. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is my story . . . this is my song.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tullian</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Against the backdrop of his own very public collapse best-selling author Tullian Tchividjian reveals how hope can find us in our darkest places.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Carnage & Grace is an unflinchingly honest memoir that explores the hard road of recovery and the mercy that finds us over and over along the way. This is a book about desperation and deliverance hopelessness and healing. It's a book about how God's restoring grace always flows downward and gathers in the low places of life-in the back alleys of our secrets in the ruins of our regrets and in the wreckage of our repeated failures. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My friend Tullian's new book has everything I want in a memoir. It's raw and unsanitized and uncomfortable. He is willing to expose the worst parts of himself which somehow exposes the best parts of God. This isn't so much a story of a Christian celebrity who fell from grace. It's the untold story of a broken human being who fell into grace-discovering God on the bathroom floor of his wrecked life. This is a must read!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Jonathan Merritt </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Author and contributing writer for The Atlantic</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>