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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christian mean issues
... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
christian views people
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
spiritual children views
As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
jesus church saws
[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?
people want happens
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
christian dream opposites
The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.
fall best-effort church
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
news needs best-place
... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
christian palaces needs
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
jesus thinking air
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.
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.
mean grace god-love
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less
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.