Jacalyn S. Mcleod

Letters to Jamey: Grace for a Broken Life Jacalyn S. Mcleod

..a drug infested trailer park..running with his baby from police..spilling the paint over and over--this is the life of a Christian? Rage, alcoholism, and rejection keep Jacalyn McLeod's son-in-law in and out of jail. He's accepted Jesus but only a gritty, practical understanding of God's grace can truly set him free and deliver his family from poverty and fear. Over three years of her letter campaign, prodigal Jamey is befriended and exhorted to access God's grace through repentance; he's encouraged that God enjoys him even as he struggles with sin, taught the difference between grace and legalism, how God looks at the secret place of the heart, how to know what God is feeling about him, all based on the uncompromising teaching developed by Pastor Mike Bickle of IHOPKC. When the cost of loving her son-in-law reaches to the injury of her own child, the dramatic conclusion asks whether Jacalyn can herself maintain a posture of redeeming love and obedience to Christ.