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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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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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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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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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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
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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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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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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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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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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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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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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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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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There is an offense to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.
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