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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eternity
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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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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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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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.
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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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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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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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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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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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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 self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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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 Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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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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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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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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