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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salt littles bits
Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
knowing-god knows
I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.
reflecting-back mirrors church
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
kingdoms revolution violent
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
why-not naked acknowledge
God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
christian religious brother
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.
nice people theologian
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
opposites grace holiness
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
top-down goodness grows
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
doe his-love love-and-forgiveness
God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
want-something want ifs
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
grace pharisees entitlement
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.
christian jesus differences
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
christian church principles
We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.