(Contributor) Destiny and Deliverance (companion volume to film The Prince of Egypt), Thomas Nelson (Nashville, TN), 1998. I read you comments concerning your struggles with mental illness and the lack of resources available. Philip. Discovering God: A Devotional Journey Through the Bible, Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI), 1993. Id love to hear any you would recommend. Thats why, in desperation, Im contacting you. So many of our more progressive evangelical friends (i.e. If so, would be interested in your thoughts. If I choose well, and God is pleased, how is God benefited? This act of forgiveness is backed up by the command that Christians must forgive (70 times 7, etc.) I have never known a kinder, more generous, selfless (and, yes Christ-like) human being in my life than he isand yet, at a recent demonstration (in NYC, the Climate Justice March, and Flooding Wall Street), where I made signs with verses from Isaiah, Psalms, and other places, about our obligation to defend the poor, to be on the side of the oppressed, etcand he held them with mehe said, Christians dont like me. Sad but true. So much hate from those who should know better. Encyclopedia.com. Take a look and explore how well Alojza Stepinac rescued people. We must feel helpless. Please let me know if you would allow us to provide our brothers with this wonderful resource. It is God reaching to him again! Let the people around you know that you are serious about institutional corruption and the protection of whistleblowers. He grew up a "New Testament, Blood-bought, Born-again, Premillenial, Dispensational, fundamental" Protestant just like me. However, this did not get me down but made me realize I had received grace. I saw this quote today used in a Psychology Today article and decided I would take Mr. Emersons advice and write a letter of gratitude and appreciation to a few people whose works have had a significant impact on me. Thank you for writing the book that gave rise to my own passion to write. I have asked for an apology so many times. Again and again, I would offer them your name, hoping they would find a similar freedom in realizing their doubts and questions did not disqualify them from faith. I just submitted it to a publisher this month, and it should be published in 2021. Second Opinion, October, 1994, Edwin R. DuBose, review of Pain, p. 111. Until then, I feel connected to you in Him and I wish you and your family all the best. There is the scene at the cross where Jesus prays for forgiveness for the people who crucified himwho clearly had not asked. Thank you, Philip Yancey for a balanced, Godly look at ourselves. to think about, and a new perspective. Paul used the tensions between Brian and me to demoralize me. We desperately need people to speak some spiritual sanity here. Philip Yancey is the author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of columns and is an editor-at-large for Christianity Today. So, Ive long wanted to thank you. Im so grateful to Philip Yancey for helping me understand modern Christianity better. It was a good effort, though! All that to say, Philip, that your style of communicating really speaks to me. I often feel different than the Christian community that surrounds me far more skeptical, far more embracing of doubts, far more comfortable discussing the persistence of my questions than any answers Ive been offered. Welcome to the family, Scott. (As to your friend, I attended one more moderate church in Atlanta but most of my toxic memories are of another, smaller and more fundamentalist churchthe two are sometimes confused, as again I do not use their names.) Turning it on, I found a number to call. The weekend retreat will have three teaching sessions, each taught by different guys, maybe with sub-themes: Grace from God, Grace between Christians and Grace to the World. How is this logic possible? When we do feel helpless, God cares, but God is no less present or any less caring, or less interested in our prayers when there are some things we think we can do. I did sign up for the Launch Team, I hope that I can help in that. After reading your works for many years, I got the impression that you lean towards the Christus Victor interpretation. The other side of the coin is that while art today is here and present, it lives on, not necessarily as a piece (or artist) itself, but in the minds of those who encounter it and the influence they have on others, who in turn influence still others, and so on. The YWAM director Lynn Green invited me to join the YWAM community and told me that YWAM holland was wrong for the way they treated me. Listening to an online sermon by Chuck Schlie, we heard your Traverse City Prodigal story. Its an honest representation of what a Christian walk really is. We could talk over details, but I appreciate the broad sweep of what youre saying. Our prayers are that people who ask him the meaning of his name, will read your books, feel understood and rediscover their faith. I feel now a pull to come back to attending the local Church, even if only to reconnect with local community and participate in local charity work to which I feel a calling as well. Jesus talks about not being able to serve God and Money, yet our culture has glorified the comforts we enjoy thru money- to the point where when everything doesnt go our way we decide to fix it. GulpIm blushing. Philip, Ive been thinking about you lately and your book, Whats So Amazing About Grace? (What a great title) And how you deftly redefine the word to mean social justice. I applaud Yancey for his disarming honesty and for giving us a story that will cause us to reflect about our own life and also to thank God for his wisdom and grace. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Paul expressed no interest in reconciliation. You communicate very well in English! Im sorry for all you are going through Philip. On earth as it is in heavenI pray for that, and work for it. I have read some of your books and enjoyed them all. Education: Cooper Union Sc, Yez Santos Delgadillo, Agustn (19041980). Nevertheless, he insisted that I go to Edmonton, saying that the need was greater there than in Winnipeg. I am still struggling on this journey of life and brokenness but have been spurred on to keep laying down my burdens one day at a time. Dear Mr. Yancey: Philip, Thank you so much for your reply and your help! I know he appreciates your interest, and Ill let him know next time we communicate. For the most part I have learned to live with this black dog. I pray that youll find what youre looking for. The Langauge of God ~ Francis Collins. Thank you for rescuing so many of us from rigid Christianity and teaching us to welcome messy Christianity :-), including doubts and questions. Read Romans 15: 4-13 Your letter reminds me why I dont. I will not mention what religion I was raised, nor the denomination of my friends church because it is not about the religion it truly is about our relationship with Him! God provides support and solidarity, yes, but not protectionat least not the kind of protection we desperately long for. keep digging? I met a pastor who also was a former law enforcement officer and who was leading a newly merged church. I first learned of the tradition in Annie Dillards book For the Time Being. While reading Whats So Amazing About Grace? God impressed on me to teach and write about forgiveness. It covers large chunks of the Bible, and is perfect for those who don't have a lot of time due to busy schedules. Its not just about black verses white, but also greed, inequality, poverty, violence, rape, and local people blaming foreign African shop owners for taking jobs away from locals. I have trouble using your books as curriculum because of your overt, explicit identity as evangelical and your constant implication that evangelical is the default setting for genuine Christianity. Occasionally, the why question tries to bubble up but we try to let it evaporate. Let me know. This was my experience, and it had been the experience of the two chaplains before me. It is a sad story and one that can be repeated, in many ways, by other families. I too look around and say where has all the Grace gone? When I first started attending my friends church, I bought a Bible and would randomly open it and read scripture (I was not raised reading the Bible). Including every single member of my wifes extended family. He does not know why evil exists What Ive learned, though, is that the more specific and detailed I write, it summons up responses in others who had parallel experiences, though not the same. This young girl was constantly ridiculed. We each had learned pastors who were regarded as Bible scholars; mine sometimes illustrated his sermons with humorous stories about darkies, and was the first person I recall using the curse of Ham justification for racial hierarchy. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, Look at that, you son of a bitch. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. I saw this man with his huge hands lift up each and every baby. The clarity of your challenge What is the alternative to grace? They are sincere and genuine. Your books have been my refuge! Let me recommend some reading: The Road Less Traveled, by Scott Peck; books by Brene Brown; the book Lean In, on the power of introverts, and almost anything by Henri Nouwen. That's probably one of the main reasons why I'm a writer today: because there are millions of people in a [closed] world like [the one in which I was raised]. As a small step I listed the most influential books I have ever read. I asked the guard at the main control station outside the chapel about this, and he told me he had no idea what happened to it. http://necrometrics.com/pre1700b.htm#Martyrs, Maybe you have know that already, so I am sorry for stepping in. So they are not able to reach and write English. This is an excellent resource for daily quiet time. You are, besides the Spurs part, the same. But Phillip I have a question, I read a book rumors of another world and I thought it was written by you. And for perhaps the first time, I was able to articulate so many of my experiences or lackthereof with God and the church. My doctor told me to find a good GP and to take a year off work to recover. In early 2000 I drove back to Alberta. U taught me that. Philip. Roman control of mens beliefs and he followed through to conspire, Rome strategically designed a state religion and Christianity was crafted It is my sincere hope that you will consider my case and use the authority given to you by God to defend the vulnerable members of our society. I must say, though, that missionaries to places like Africa and Haiti, and some parts of S. America and East Asia, have impressive firsthand accounts of possession that manifests itself in ways similar to that described in the Bible. We always have and we always will.. I have two boys and a daughter who are in their early teens. He reminded me that Paul was not my boss, that we were equals. It provides extra background and may be helpful for you, but isnt tied in directly to the video group study. You may remember me from our contact in the early 2000s. How fortunate we are to be able to grow through fellow pilgrims across the globe and the centuries, so like and unlike us. Philip. We do, of course, have one strong example of forgiveness offered even without apology or remorse: when Jesus prayed for his persecutors, Father, forgive them, for they dont know what they are doing. By the time I had given out about 15 stamps/cards, word had gotten around to Paul. Increase your biblical knowledge or pursue a career in ministry. I was told to sell my condo and move east, which I did. Whew, great question and well-expressed. It is a good read to see the tremendous good that was generated during that time.

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