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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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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.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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