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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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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
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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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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 human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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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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... 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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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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