Best Yancey, Philip
A Jesus fully capable of turning your life completely around. Bestselling author Philip Yancey offers a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work--his teachings, his miracles, his death and resurrection, and ultimately, who he was and why he came.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Jesus was emotional (just as God the Father is), and deals with the frustrations of real life in a fallen world. It is into this fallen world of conflicting choices that Jesus comes to live with us, suffer with us, and show us the way of God. "Disappointment" addresses the paradox of why an all-powerful God would not use that power to just "fix it", but allow us to live with the often harsh realities of living in a world that is seemingly antithetical to the way God planned things from the beginning. Phil is articulate in his thoughts and pointed in his exposition of scripture and theological truths of God's Word where God meets real life. If you question God, suffering, and the unfair things that have happened to you in life, these books are the TOP TWO books I would have you read as you search for answers. Please... if your faith is weak or you question God, read these three books..."
"Like Jesus himself, the book takes aim at subsequent church dogma and tradition, showing where it is, and often is not, on track with how he is shown to be in the gospels themselves."
"What did he mean when he said... Philip Yancey inspires the reader to read his book, and then dig deeper into the life of Christ. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to be challenged about their relationship with Christ, or just to find out more about what Christ was like here on earth while he was alive."
"I grew up in the evangelical church, never doubted God, always felt something was missing, but my doctrinal teaching was so absolute that I was afraid to even wonder if it was anything but 'the whole counsel of God'. The honesty and integrity of this author are disarming. He has no axe to grind, no personal agenda, nothing to be accomplished but reproach and disdain from traditionalists who often are afraid to allow or even think anything that is less than signed, sealed, and theologically delivered with approval from the today's Pharisees--of which there is some that in ALL of us."
"Very enlightening book."
"I agree with Phil, especially in his conclusions concerning what the kingdom of God is and what it is not!"
"Just like a good steak, you take small bites, chew on them, then let the rich content provide spiritual nourishment."
"This is a classic explanation of the essence of Christianity—Jesus, himself."
His words caught the media's ears--and out of one man's grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. It's the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else--for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world. 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 than it does of mercy? Should any grace at all be shown to the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed and cannibalized seventeen young men? And he challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, What's So Amazing About Grace?
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Find Best Price at Amazon"the Study guide does not go with the Participants guide for the bible study of this Title."
"Phillip Yancey challenges us to live our lives showing the grace that Jesus showed the he encountered in his ministry and, one assumes, people he encountered before he began his public ministry."
"He even goes as far as to say that it is only Grace exhibited within Christians at the grassroots level that will ever have the power to affect positive social and political changes in our world."
"Phillip Yancey's use of stories and modernized parables help paint a picture of grace that, if I'm honest, I knew already...but I never really envisioned."
"Yancy does a fantastic job of establishing his stand on the subject of grace and then backing up his claims with significant evidence. Yancy, however, points out that grace, while it is the only “good” word left, is lacking in some areas of the world where we as Christians would expect it to be. Yancy does such an amazing job of telling his thoughts on grace without making this a difficult read. It is humbling because Yancy places a lot of the blame for why Christians are viewed as ungraceful in today's society on those who call themselves 'Christians'."
"Christians are called to a different standard that can bring ridicule from others but often we take on very unChrist like attitudes and means when dealing with others with a different point of view."
"Grace... Five letter word packed with a priceless meaning."
"In the beginning of this book I was thinking of all the people who need to read this."
“I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge …” In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. He said of the bombers, “I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge … I shall pray, tonight and every night, that God will forgive them.” His words caught the media’s ear — and out of one man’s grief the world got a glimpse of grace. It’s the one thing the world cannot duplicate and the one thing it craves above all else — for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world. Yancey sets grace in the midst of life’s stark images, tests its mettle against horrific “ungrace.” Can grace survive in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust? He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award–winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards for What’s So Amazing About Grace?
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"the Study guide does not go with the Participants guide for the bible study of this Title."
"Phillip Yancey challenges us to live our lives showing the grace that Jesus showed the he encountered in his ministry and, one assumes, people he encountered before he began his public ministry."
"He even goes as far as to say that it is only Grace exhibited within Christians at the grassroots level that will ever have the power to affect positive social and political changes in our world."
"Phillip Yancey's use of stories and modernized parables help paint a picture of grace that, if I'm honest, I knew already...but I never really envisioned."
"Yancy does a fantastic job of establishing his stand on the subject of grace and then backing up his claims with significant evidence. Yancy, however, points out that grace, while it is the only “good” word left, is lacking in some areas of the world where we as Christians would expect it to be. Yancy does such an amazing job of telling his thoughts on grace without making this a difficult read. It is humbling because Yancy places a lot of the blame for why Christians are viewed as ungraceful in today's society on those who call themselves 'Christians'."
"Christians are called to a different standard that can bring ridicule from others but often we take on very unChrist like attitudes and means when dealing with others with a different point of view."
"Grace... Five letter word packed with a priceless meaning."
"In the beginning of this book I was thinking of all the people who need to read this."