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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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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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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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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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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
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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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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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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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... 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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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
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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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