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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.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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...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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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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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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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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... 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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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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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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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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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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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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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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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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