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 thinking air
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.
gratitude book world
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
mean grace god-love
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less
jesus mind tasks
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
christian mean perfect
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
jesus people heaven
Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, "Be good." Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, "Help!"
christian sacrifice self
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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.