Philip D Yancey
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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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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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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...
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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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Finding Meaning in the Midst of Suffering In his classic book Where Is God When It Hurts, Philip Yancey gave us permission to doubt, reasons not to abandon faith, and practical ways to reach out to hurting people. And now, thirty years after writing his first book, Yancey revisits our cry of "Why, God" in three places stunned into silence by the calamities that have devastated them. At some point all of us will face the challenges to faith Yancey...
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Philip Yancey has a way of confronting our most cherished - but misguided - notions about the Christian life. In his newest book, Yancey challenges the perception that the New Testament is more important than the Old, that the Hebrew Scriptures aren't worth the time they take to read and understand them. Writing as always with keen insight into the human condition and God's provision for it, Yancey debunks this theory once and for all. Yes, he agrees,...
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The Bible Study Source series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, What's So Amazing About Grace? includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover this important Bible-based topic. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching.
In this six-session revised and updated video Bible study,...
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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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En 1987, una bomba del Ejército Republicano Irlandés enterró a Gordon Wilson y a su hija de veintiún años bajo metro y medio de escombros. Sólo Gordon sobrevivió. Y perdonó. De los que pusieron la bomba, dijo: "He perdido a mi hija, pero no les guardo rencor...Esta noche, y todas las noches voy a orar para que Dios los perdone." Sus palabras captaron la atención de los medios de información, y en el dolor de un hombre, el mundo pudo captar...
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Su pregunta es más relevante ahora que nunca: en un periodo de veinte años comenzando desde mitad de los noventa, la investigación muestra que las opiniones favorables hacia el cristianismo se han desplomado de manera drástica; y las opiniones de los evangélicos han caído incluso más profundamente. Yancey examina lo que pudo haber contribuido a la hostilidad hacia los evangélicos. Ofrece esclarecedoras formas de cómo la fe puede expresarse...
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Si usted cree que el Antiguo Testamento es un simple libro misterioso, no es así; es la Biblia que Jesús leyó, usó y amó. El Antiguo Testamento es la biografía de Dios, el relato apasionado de su encuentro con la gente. Es también el preámbulo de la historia de Jesús, que encarnó a Dios para vivir entre nosotros. Phillip Yancey desafía al creyente de hoy a valorar al Antiguo Testamento tanto como al Nuevo brindándole una visión novedosa...
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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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En su libro más impactante desde que escribiera Gracia Divina vs. Condenación Humana y El Jesús que nunca conocí, Philip Yancey examina el núcleo vital -el aspecto más fundamental, controvertido, desconcertante y profundamente enriquecedor- de nuestra relación con Dios: la oración.¿Qué es la oración? ¿Cómo opera? Y el punto más importante: ¿Sirve para algo? En teoría, la oración es el hecho humano esencial, el punto de contacto más...
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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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La vida con Dios no siempre es como nosotros pensamos. Las altas expectativas se vienen abajo ante la realidad de las flaquezas personales y las sorpresas inoportunas.¿Está Dios entretenido? ¿Podemos contar con él? ¿Cómo podemos saberlo? ¿Cómo podemos conocer a Dios?Al encuentro del Dios invisible nos da una comprensión profunda y satisfactoria que afirma y dignifica aquellas preguntas que muchas veces tememos hacer. El galardonado escritor...
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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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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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The story of the Bible starts with the simple statement, "In the beginning, God created . . ." From that first sentence of Genesis, the story of salvation unfolds in strange and wonderful mingling of the commonplace and the miraculous, the human and the transcendent. But if you were born after the baby boom, chances are the Bible seems more like an item of passing interest than a book of depth and meaning for the twenty-first century. If you're not...
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Voted Book of the Year Philip Yancey's bestselling book The Jesus I Never Knew peeled away popular stereotypes to present a brilliant and fascinating portrait of Christ. Now individuals and groups can join Yancey in this probing look at Jesus Christ-his teachings, his miracles, his death and resurrection, and ultimately, who he was and why he came. This study guide helps readers press beyond the traditional picture to uncover a Jesus who is brilliant,...