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Why Jesus Prayed
by Philip yancey Prayer

Why Jesus Prayed

I look first to Jesus for clues to the mysteries of faith, and regarding prayer He did not seem to share some of my biggest struggles. He never wondered whether ...
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What’s So Amazing About Grace: No Strings Attached
by Philip yancey

What’s So Amazing About Grace: No Strings Attached

God’s Love for the UndeservingGrace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are. Categories of worthiness simply don’t apply. ~ Philip Yancey, ...
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Prayer: Do You Want to Know God?
by Philip yancey Devotionals Daily

Prayer: Do You Want to Know God?

According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and ...
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Ask Seek Knock
by Philip yancey Devotionals Daily

Ask Seek Knock

… And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries. ...
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Grace on Tap
by Philip yancey Devotionals Daily

Grace on Tap

Living “in the world,” we can look for natural opportunities to dispense grace — not just words — to those around us. Gabe Lyons recommends inviting community leaders, whether Christian ...
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Do No Harm
by Philip yancey Devotionals Daily

Do No Harm

The apostle Paul said about a healthy community, “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” The Christian community, ...
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Does Prayer Make a Difference?
by Philip yancey

Does Prayer Make a Difference?

Prayer can be easy during the good times, but it can be challenging during difficult times. Admitting this can be a difficult thing, but for many it is true. Philip ...
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Prayer: Timeless Love
by Philip yancey Prayer

Prayer: Timeless Love

The scene of Jesus huddled in a locked room with a dozen friends, one of them a traitor, while outside temple guards and Roman legionnaires buckle on their swords and ...
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I Want to Know Why!
by Philip yancey Devotionals Daily

I Want to Know Why!

It does not help to try to quantify suffering, I have learned along the way. That the tsunami of 2004 killed far more people than the tsunami of 2011 or ...
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The Scandal of Forgiveness
by Philip yancey

The Scandal of Forgiveness

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.Magnanimous forgiveness, allows the possibility of transformation in the guilty party. Lewis Smedes details this process of “spiritual surgery”:When you forgive someone, ...
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Oddballs, Defectives, Sinners, Aliens, Gentiles… and Grace
by Philip yancey Devotionals Daily

Oddballs, Defectives, Sinners, Aliens, Gentiles… and Grace

Before writing The Jesus I Never Knew, I spent several months researching the background to Jesus’ life. I learned to appreciate the ordered world of first-century Judaism. I admit that ...
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The New Math of Grace
by Philip yancey Devotionals Daily

The New Math of Grace

When a column of mine titled “The Atrocious Mathematics of the Gospel” appeared in Christianity Today magazine, I soon learned that not everyone appreciates satire. Response letters scorched the inside ...
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Why Is the Church Failing the Millennials?
by Philip yancey

Why Is the Church Failing the Millennials?

Last week, the CNN website led with this headline: Millennials Leaving Church in Droves, Study Finds. “We’ve known that the religiously unaffiliated has been growing for decades,” said the lead ...
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Vanishing Grace: Jesus Is Our Model of Grace
by Philip yancey

Vanishing Grace: Jesus Is Our Model of Grace

Jesus spoke several times concerning how people would feel about Christians because of our relationship with Him.Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you ...
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Creative Art: A Compelling Path to Faith
by Philip yancey Devotionals Daily

Creative Art: A Compelling Path to Faith

Much as I admire activists, I am not one. Most days I sit alone in my home office staring at a computer screen while pressing plastic keys that make an ...
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Uneasy Partners: Christians and Politics
by Philip yancey

Uneasy Partners: Christians and Politics

The media often use “right-wing” as an adjective inseparably connected with evangelicals.James Davison Hunter says, “It is possible to argue that at the same time the Christian Right acquired and ...
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