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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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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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Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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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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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
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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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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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