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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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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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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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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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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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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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