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...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
way share source
The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
jesus way old-testament
The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
suffering way different
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
christian desire way
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.
sex alcohol way
Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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.
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.
christian grace way
... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
great prayers reverence
Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.
good testament toward
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
god mysterious outrage
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
gods
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.
caught church either god people turned wary whatever wounded
The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.
caused rid
I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.