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The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
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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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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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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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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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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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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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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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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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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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