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.
grace pharisees entitlement
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.
top-down goodness grows
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
kingdoms revolution violent
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
hurt church body
Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.
hurt forgiving may
Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.
prayer voice giving
The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.
god jobs giver
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
community intellectual christianity
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
christian asking should
We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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.
journey heaven forget
Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
matter individual formulas
Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.