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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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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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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 world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
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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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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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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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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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Release what is good.
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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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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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