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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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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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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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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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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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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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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 church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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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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...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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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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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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