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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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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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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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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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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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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!
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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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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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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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