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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hope encouragement jesus
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
prayer father doe
Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.
prayer views may
Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
complaining reason tempted
When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.
debtors giver universe
There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
understanding true-understanding exposed
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
prayer important use
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
disappointment keys doe
The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.
prayer shopping way
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.
prayer reality views
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
humility church world
We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.
humility people grace
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
genius world bears
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
disappointment reality thinking
We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.