Philip Yancey
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How does a relationship with God really work? How do I relate to a God who is invisible, when I'm never quite sure he's there? How do I know him? How do I communicate with him? How do I live my life growing in my understanding of him, living more and more with a conscious awareness of him, doing more of those things he indicates are good for me--and others?Many have found the bright promises people make about God don't work. Others have seen...
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¿ES DIOS INJUSTO? ¿ESTÁ CALLADO? ¿SE ESCONDE DE NOSOTROS? Las respuestas a estas tres preguntas que muchas veces se hacen los cristianos, aunque no se atrevan a decirlas en voz alta, aparecen en este libro. Las preguntas hechas por la gente que sufre y se angustia, son respondidas con claridad y certeza bíblica. Desilusión con Dios ha dejado una huella muy profunda en la vida de muchas personas.
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Life with God doesn't always work like we thought. High expectations slam against the reality of personal weaknesses and unwelcome surprises. And the God who we've been told longs for our company may seem remote, emotionally unavailable. Is God playing games? What can we count on him for? This relationship with a God we can't see, hear, or touch--how does it really work? The Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide gives you a path in your personal...
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Christians have proclaimed the good news about Jesus for centuries. But the good news isn't sounding so good these days, at least to some. More and more surveys show that people view Christians as bearers of bad news, judgment, and intolerance.
In Vanishing Grace, bestselling author Philip Yancey acknowledges the problem and then explores how we can respond with both grace and truth. He offers a discerning look at what contributes to a hostility toward...
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Philip Yancey helps reveal what two thousand years of history covered up. What happens when a respected Christian journalist decides to put his preconceptions aside and take a long look at the Jesus described in the Gospels? How does the Jesus of the New Testament compare to the 'new, rediscovered' Jesus-or even the Jesus we think we know so well? Philip Yancey offers a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work-his teachings,...
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In this six-session revised and updated video Bible study, bestselling author Philip Yancey explores the concept of grace-the one thing the world cannot duplicate and the one thing it craves above all else-and explores what it looks like in action. He also examines how Christians, as the sole dispensers, are doing at lavishing the grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness, than it does of mercy.
As Yancey explains, true grace...
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If there is a loving God, then why is it that …? You've heard that question, perhaps asked it yourself. No matter how you complete it, at its root lies the issue of pain.Does God order our suffering? Does he decree an abusive childhood, orchestrate a jet crash, steer a tornado through a community? Or did he simply wind up the world's mainspring and now is watching from a distance? In this Gold Medallion Award–winning book, Philip Yancey reveals...
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In this six-session study, award-winning author Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat-the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect-of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? How does it work? And more importantly, does it work? In theory, prayer is the essential human act, a priceless point of contact between us and the God of the universe. In practice, prayer is often frustrating, confusing, and fraught...
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You may talk about forgiveness often, you may believe that you are a forgiving person, but do you understand the true depth of it and what it demands of you? Does your life proclaim it as powerfully as your words?
Adapted from his bestselling book, What's So Amazing About Grace?, bestselling author Philip Yancey presents a one of a kind, probing look at forgiveness: what it is, why it is so difficult, why we have to choose it again and again.
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Why are there so many more professing Christians than churchgoing Christians? Is it because something is wrong with the church? Perhaps that's part of the picture. But Philip Yancey insists there is another part. In this candid, thought-provoking account, he reveals the reasons behind his own journey back from skepticism to wholehearted participation in the church, and weighs the church's human failings against its compelling excellencies as the body...
11) Prayer
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In his most powerful message since What's So Amazing About Grace? And The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey explores the intimate place where God and humans meet in this Prayer Ebook. Polls reveal that 90 percent of people pray. Yet prayer, which should be the most nourishing and uplifting time of the believer's day, can also be frustrating, confusing, and fraught with mystery. Yancey probes such questions as: •Is God listening? •Why should God...
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Philip Yancey's words-captured in his many bestselling books-have influenced the lives of millions of readers by strengthening their faith, building their hope, sparking their creativity, and challenging their comfort zones. If you're one of those readers, you know personally how his insights have affected your mind and heart. And if you're new to Yancey, you're in for a life-altering experience. These meditations-all drawn from the beloved and bestselling...
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Award-winning author Philip Yancey takes you for a soul-searching look at two of Christianity's most important topics WHAT'S SO AMAZING ABOUT GRACE? In this critically acclaimed, bestselling book, Philip Yancey explores the church's great distinctive-grace-at street level. If grace is God's love for the undeserving, and if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness...
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El perdón ofrece una alternativa a un ciclo interminable de resentimiento y venganza, pero ¿comprendes realmente el perdón? En El escándalo del perdón el autor superventas Philip Yancey responderá: Qué es el perdón, por qué es tan difícil perdonar, por qué es escandaloso el perdón, y qué tiene que ver Dios con el perdón.
Todos vivimos y amamos de forma imperfecta. Por eso, sólo el perdón nos hará libres. Yancey nos enseña a perdonar...
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Based on Philip Yancey's Gold Medallion Book of the Year on the life of Christ, The Jesus I Never Knew is a six-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately) in which Yancey uses film portraits of Jesus and contrasts them with the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus I Never Knew gives you fresh, uncluttered perspectives on history's central figure-his radical claims, his challenging teachings, and his effect on others... including...
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"Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?" Philip Yancey has been asking this all his life as a journalist. His perennial question is more relevant now than ever: research shows that favorable opinions of Christianity have plummeted drastically-and opinions of Evangelicals have taken even deeper dives. Yet while opinions about Christianity are dropping, interest in spirituality is rising. Why the disconnect? Why are so many asking, "What's...
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Journalist and spiritual seeker Philip Yancey has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in What Good Is God? concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; on the Virginia...
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We speak of grace often. But, do we understand it? More important, do we truly believe in it ... and do our lives proclaim it as powerfully as our words? In What's So Amazing About Grace, explores grace at street level. If grace is God's love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? And, if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a cruel and pain-filled world?
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19) Undone
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As the world entered the long night of 2020, Philip Yancey turned to John Donne's Devotions, a nearly 400-year-old manuscript, for guidance. In it, he found a trustworthy companion for living through a global pandemic-or any other crisis. As Yancey says, "Nothing had prepared me for Donne's raw account of confrontations with God."
By faithfully and poetically rendering Donne's 17th century prose into 21st century vernacular, Yancey opens up this...
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Discover this updated and combined edition of two bestselling books!
The human body holds endlessly fascinating secrets. The resilience of skin, the strength and structure of the bones, the dynamic balance of the muscles - your physical being is knit according to a pattern of stunning purpose. Now Gold Medallion winners Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image have been completely revised and updated to offer a new audience timeless reflections...