We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
Philip YanceyEndurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Philip YanceyFaith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Philip YanceyPower, 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.
Philip YanceyTag: love christianity suffering jesus
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
Philip YanceyPrayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
Philip YanceyWhen I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
Philip YanceyTag: inspirational prayer
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
Philip YanceyTag: christmas jesus-christ underdog
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
Philip YanceyI 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.
Philip YanceyTag: c-s-lewis bible-college life-s-catastrophes
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