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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Journalist
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Atlanta
Georgia
Punishment
Deserve
Love
Wrath
Forgiveness

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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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