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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grace alternatives harder
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
prayer company
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
divorce simple opposites
I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.
prayer declaration dependence
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
conservative sometimes feels
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
differences people done
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
prayer doe answers
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
christian running confused
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
christian desire way
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.
confused community ordinary
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
prayer alliances world
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
messengers messages peril
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
humility grace prerequisites
... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
mistake errors people
... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.