Philip Yancey
Philip Yancey
Philip Yanceyis an American Christian author. Fourteen million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About Grace? in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing and Hachette...
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jesus philosophy promise
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
prayer race goal
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.
land safety grace
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.
gratitude book world
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
prayer mean grace
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
jesus mind tasks
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
christian mean perfect
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
christian sacrifice self
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
free-gifts hands grace
Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
pain evil people
The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
grace church spirit
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.
love-is style
Love is an overarching style of relating to another.
heartfelt grace favors
Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
bad exercise gain god good package points spiritual
It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.