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.
christmas jesus powerful
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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.
christian sin angry
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
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.
christian prayer struggle
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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.
christian jesus powerful
Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way truly leads to a life most abundant and most thirst-satisfying.