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Philip Yancey
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A truly original character died this week. I first got to know Will Campbell through his splendid book Brother to a Dragonfly. Typical of Will, he shone the spotlight not on his own story but rather on that of his alcoholic, self-destructive brother Joe.
Ordained as a teenager, Will was destined to be a preacher. No one could have predicted, though, that he would choose for his flock first the l...
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What's So Amazing about Grace?
— published 1997 — 37 editions |
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The Jesus I Never Knew
— published 1995 — 26 editions |
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Where Is God When It Hurts?
— published 1977 — 20 editions |
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Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
— published 2006 — 13 editions |
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Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
— published 1988 — 26 editions |
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Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church
— published 2001 — 23 editions |
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Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?
— published 2000 — 14 editions |
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The Bible Jesus Read: An 8-Session Exploration of the Old Testament [With Leaders Guide and Participant Guide and Video]
— published 1999 — 19 editions |
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Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?
— published 2003 — 14 editions |
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
by Philip Yancey (Goodreads Author), Paul Brand — published 1980 — 17 editions |
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“…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes – well, maybe seven. Do you sense the presence of God when you pray? Occasionally, not often. Many of those I talked to experienced prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. They regarded it as important, even paramount, and felt guilty about their failure, blaming themselves. Does this sound familiar? (pp. 14/Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?)”
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“As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)”
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“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
― Philip Yancey
― Philip Yancey
“Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.”
― Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
― Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
“To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. ”
― Philip Yancey
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. ”
― Philip Yancey
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“Where is God when it hurts? We know one answer because God came to earth and showed us. You need only follow Jesus around and note how he responded to the tragedies of his day: large-scale tragedies such as an act of government terrorism in the temple or a tower collapsing on eighteen innocent bystanders; as well as small tragedies, such as a widow who has lost her only son or even a Roman soldier whose servant has fallen ill. At moments like these Jesus never delivered sermons about judgment or the need to accept God’s mysterious providence. Instead he responded with compassion – a word from Latin which simply means, “to suffer with” – and comfort and healings. God stands on the side of those who suffer. (pp.27-28/What Good Is God?)”
― Philip Yancey, What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
― Philip Yancey, What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
“We are all trophies of God’s grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)”
― Philip Yancey, What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
― Philip Yancey, What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
“On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)”
― Philip Yancey, What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
― Philip Yancey, What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
“In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square. (pp. 12-Christians & Politics: Uneasy Partners/ebook/Amazon)”
― Philip Yancey
― Philip Yancey
“A clear pattern soon emerged, as demonstrated by many polls: the more prominently Christians entered the political arena, the more negatively they were viewed by the rest of society. (pp.1 Christian & Politics: Uneasy Partners/eBook/Amazon)”
― Philip Yancey
― Philip Yancey
