Product Description
by Michael Leno (Author)
Author and pastor, Michael Leno, finds God's grace in all kinds of situations, including horrifying actions such as a suicide, and in common frustrations like being stranded in an airport. He also finds grace evident in the way Jesus died, and in Luther's rejection of the church's teaching about a hostile god. "All the ancient witnesses, and all the other evidence we might consider," Leno says, "agree consistently that God is not hostile. Rather, he has declared peace on Earth, and good will toward human beings." Extreme Grace is about a God who does not take revenge. Rather he extends limitless and unconditional love to his human family.
Author Biography
Michael Leno has been a pastor for 35 years, leading churches in Oregon, Arizona, Georgia, and California. He is currently the senior pastor of the Palm Springs, California Seventh-day Adventist Church. He has had a life-long interest in ancient literature and the progression of ideas about God through history. Leno completed a bachelor's degree at Walla Walla University, majoring in music and theology. He received training in marriage and family therapy at Arizona State University, and he completed a masters of religion degree at the H.M.S. Richards Divinity School, La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He received the university's President's Award for Outstanding Graduate Student for his research on the fate of the wicked in Second Temple Jewish literature.