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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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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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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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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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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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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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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 need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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