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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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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.
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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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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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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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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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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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