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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god people boss
The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
gratitude great-love doe
If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.
should-have europe impact
John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to accomplish just that. They were dispensing grace to the broader world, and in the process their spirit helped change a nation, saving it from the revolutionary chaos that had spread across Europe.
suffering tragedy faith-in-god
Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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.
jesus agents earth
We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.
jesus believe giving
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
missing done may
By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
fall grace world
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
people who-god-is who-we-are
God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
growing-up long way
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
life-changing father thinking
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?
light imperfection grace
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.
jesus people work-out
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer only three times. Instead, he responded with a different question, a story, or some other indirection. Evidently Jesus wants us to work out answers on our own, using the principles that he taught and lived.