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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.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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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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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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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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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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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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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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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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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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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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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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