But the damage had been done for a life time . Philip. I attended CIU from 99-03 and first saw your book The Jesus I never knew on the nightstand in the alumni center when my parents came up for a visit one weekend. She was in the service of churches and pastors for most of her life and expected her sons to follow in her steps. I stood up for what I believed was the right thing to do. Eternal bodies need the eternal earth to live on. I shared with him one area that a lot of evangelicals dont hold, that he said they did. I thought I would mention it to you in case you have come across anything about this in your research/writing. I am a judge in our court system and a product of loving Christian parents who valued all people people of all races and backgrounds. We heard about love and grace, but I didnt experience much. Its probably too late to start a volume 2, but you ask a great question. I would like to know if the brother would have any more books to recommend me, or any tips on passages that would be a good starting point to study more about the subject. Through all the changes in my faith and life I am still moved by it. Some others, both living and dead: Jurgen Moltmann, a contemporary German theologian; Millard Fuller, who founded Habitat for Humanity; John Perkins, who pioneers racial reconciliation; Ron Nikkel, who took Prison Fellowship to more than 100 countries; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia. You are warm and encouraging with words, and Im truly grateful for you. Forever thankful for your ministry and help! Philip Yancey is an accomplished American author who mostly writes about spiritual issues. Thank you for your life and all the struggles you went through. Your sorrow has been used to comfort so many of us. I just finished it this morning and found myself reading out loud portions of the final chapter to my husband with tears falling down my face. Thank you. I want to thank you for writing this book and for your ministry of writing. A reflexive Christian, (raised Baptist, drifted in and out of different denominations from college years deep into my 40s), I have tried to turn to God and fight through all this with Him, but I realized I didnt know how. This year is the tenth anniversary of my accident, and your prayers have been answeredin reverse! I have purchased the Participants Guide (Zondervan 2000) and the DVD (both have the pink cover with pasture and fence). Did God put your book in front of me and push me towards it? C.S. Thank you again for donating this book as this gift was a blessing to me, my family and the military community. This fact has become a Trend Topic on Twitter Worldwide, remaining on second place for a while. Every blessing David. Hes obviously not a Christian (its not even clear he believes in God) but he clearly takes the Bible seriously, and its refreshing to see that from someone in the elite. Grace is so important to Yancey, he told me, because he was late to discover it. We visited each other in our homes in Canada and the United States, and in 1995, with the assistance CSC, the three of us organized a COPE conference in Edmonton for 300 people from across Canada. While the political part of me seeks revenge, (Let the markets crash! I seek your wisdom as I am at one of the lowest points in my life. At one point Yanceys mother, enraged at Marshalls plan to transfer to Wheaton, which she considered an apostate institution, tells him she will pray every day for the rest of your life that God breaks you. We have to confess. Mr Yancey, Can you help me to send your e book ? Could you tell me the title of the book so I can try to purchase a copy of it? I gave the first copy I had to a friend, who also gave it to another friend. Enough of this. I am reading your book Prayer, Does It Make Any Difference. If you can recommend any specific readings on this passage and how it applies to our daily lives, I would appreciate that as well. You can follow Jesus around, and he always responds with compassion and comfort and healing. I have known your writings in the devotional Daily Bread that I receive for free in my home and bless me a lot. + The Jesus I Never Knew Back in 2007, I decided to put myself out there and finally answer what I believed to be Gods call on my life to be a worship pastor. He once said to me, There is something I do not understand, Richard. Thank you for your articulate book, which has come the closest to making me re-think my doubts in the whole matter. I am so glad to see that there are others walking the same path as myself. I could see Bob was really talking about patience, faith and forgiveness by suspending his judgement. God bless you. Search for Beautiful Courageous You by Lauralee Berrill. A profound inspiration, I keep pressing on to write about the many facets of life. 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. I finally was tired of waiting for the contract to sign and so complained to Bruce Smith about it and he replied by throwing me out of the church Army and CSC failed me. Roman law did not allow the marriage of previous slaves and free-borns, so common-law marriage was rife. as of now I am doing a book review of your The Jesus I never Knew as a requirement in one of my subject. My HIV-pos. For two years she lived on the streets until finally she made her way to an orphanage. At the group home where I stay, people say I pick up diseases from these ladies, because I developed a mystery physical illness some years ago, complete with black skin sores and blocked urinary tract! Thanks again! It is a large community of Romanians who would need your help. Thank you for being you. What kind of Christian would dare be disappointed with God? What a beautiful spirit you show! In a few paragraphs before you wrote that AVM is not completely clear of all these developments in the Balkans and the former Yugoslavia. 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). Hi Mr. Yancey, Brian did not send me anything in writing concerning Brians allegation; nevertheless, Misty McLaughlin of Bridges of Canada later quoted it in conversation with me as a reason for my dismissal [35]. Got baptized the other year a few days short of my 57th birthday!? Im impressed by your openness. Then one day word came that a couple from America was going to adopt a little boy. He and I had been to the same evangelical Anglican theological college, and we were part of the evangelical wing of the worldwide Anglican Church. Wishing that I might be able to see you in person one day by wandering around the world. How to position? We help young men from addictive backgrounds with life controlling issues. I yearned for more, not knowing what more meant. Fast forward a couple years later to a Christian publishing conference I was attending in San Diego, where you were present to speak about writing. There were several parts that stood out to me that I could relate to. So, what is the answer to communicate with God and Him with me I have even told God that I will be quiet and wait to hear from Him but to no avail. I would then take the completed cards from the prisoners, put stamps on the envelopes and hand them back to the prisoners to be mailed. Yet our Lord did not pronounce forgiveness upon his murderers at that moment by saying to them, I forgive you or Your sin is forgiven. No, instead he prayed that they would be forgiven, which is very different than actually pronouncing a person to be forgiven. I am thinking of Andrew Murray, Frank Laubach, George Muller, Thomas Kelly, Brigid Herman, and Rosalind Rinker. My, Im putting you on a pedestal, arent I? Paul wanted to take two weeks off during the holiday season, and he told me that he did not want me to take any services during his absence. My interests include skiing, climbing mountains, mountain-biking, golf, international travel, jogging, nature, theology (in small doses), politics, literature, and classical music.. Those Serbs who had so much hatred of my people had ethnic cleansing of Croats, Roma and Jews. And I truly believeyou know the word evangelical, which has been so stained and brings up so many kinds of false stereotypes todayit means at its core good news, and I believe that the Gospel is good news.. I might not agree with the perspective or conduct of a lot of Southern Baptists, but this was the most unfair caricature I have seen in a long time. 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. I was shocked and distressed by all this hatred being expressed by a lay CSC chaplain. The reason I am writing is to request a suggestion from you. She captures her adoptive daughter's life, revealing her baby's supernatural gifts from God. I look forward to reading more of what you have to say and teach. I do know where Cape Town is, and its one of the most beautiful spots in the world. Being a gay man is to want something that only women are supposed to want, thus robbing women of their proper use as Paul puts it, whereas being a lesbian was virtually incomprehensible to the ancient Roman world in which the Church fathers wrote what became the New Testament canon. Thanks for the idea. I apologize for putting you to this much trouble. What a grace-filled note, Greg. Im afraid my 2017 travel schedule is full. Ive wanted to talk to my local vicars to discuss my situation, but they never seem to find the time. Matthew had the best medical care available, a loving church that cared for him and his family, and parents who loved and prayed for him. It has been recommended that I have the book professionally edited and I was wondering if I could ask you for a good editorial recommendation. We met again in a few days, and talked for hours. Hi, Gordon, Paul even told me directly that he would not work for Bridges of Canada, and he had nothing but criticism for the CSC chaplaincy and the regional chaplains. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. Just like you, I am having a hard time shedding the influence it has upon me largely because I owe an immense debt of gratitude to the denomination that facilitated my becoming a US citizen. That take is a far cry from his youth, where he grew up in a fundamentalist, King James-only church near Atlanta that often viewed the outside world with fear. I told the Warden that I would buy my own couch; I planned to buy a futon couch from IKEA with private funds I had for my ministry. Sometimes I wish I did have simpler, more formulaic answers. Then one day, taking a flight on a small regional jet, we encountered the worst turbulence I had experienced in 60 years of flying. His primary source of income is his career as an author. Known for his captivating personality, Philip has blue eyes and the color of his hair is white. I would be remiss if I didnt thank you properly or tell you that. He does not know why evil exists Your books have been my refuge! I like your book title, so Ill definitely try to check it out. Reinforce the satanic suffix foolishly extending its legitimacy Susan Stevens, My goodness, thats now 20 years ago! Philip stands at a height of 5 feet 3 inches. Thus we met, merely as a matter of courtesy, with no expectations, no points of reference. Such places of suffering in Slovenia are only 300. Jesus taught the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector as a corrective to those who, in the words of Luke, were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else. The Pharisees showed discipline, took God seriously, and were willing to risk their lives for their faith. This truly encourages me. I havent had anything published yet, but as someone recovering from bitterness, forgiveness, and legalism, your work has given me a reference point. Whats radical is that God loves bad people and wants to change them and is holding out the remedy for the evil that is in them. A subsequent letter of dismissal from the Bridges of Canada head office in Fredericton praised me for my dedication but also failed to include a reason for my dismissal [37]. or even to St Albans in Herts! And we were taught that God answers prayers, miraculously, but my father died of polio just after my first birthday, despite many prayers for his healing., For Yancey, reading offered a window to a different world. I knew Barry. We have lost the ability to create metaphors for life. I certainly dont think our Bible College is at all like what you presented in your book. (Wish I could post the pic) This is my 3rd time reading Rumors. To think that someone else had thought it too, separately, at a different time and country. One of them was Soul Survivor, a book I read more than ten years ago and whose influence I still feel today. Dear Mr. Yancey: In my childhood church, sermons on Sunday mornings and evenings were filled with images of hellfire and brimstone, and in Awana some of the first verses we memorized included Romans 3:23, For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and Romans 6:23a, For the wages of sin is death. Around Halloween, the church youth ministry would host a hell house with frightening rooms filled with demons, darkness, and large knives and bloody bones (thanks to a butcher who was a member of the church)followed by a message on hell and an invitation to repent and be saved. I became the western representative of COPE, while Monty was its eastern representative. Please translate your books into Urdu (Pakistani) language. I have weird tastes in movies. Recently I got rid of a number of books that Id owned for some years. The Bible ways what it says, I figured. I wish I could help, Mariana, but its impossible for me to send an e-book to another country. And that is good news. I was praying recently that God would put some generative, mature, joyful Jesus people in my life. So Lynn Green of YWAM UK sent me to a logging camp in Colorado run by YWAM . My Church is experiencing a major challenge shaking us to the roots. Ive stood at Patong Beach where the 2004 Tsunami hit Thailand. 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. Ill keep your caution in mind. Again, thank you. Yet your writing points me back to a better response, loving the church even while disagreeing with her at times. Again, I was told to shut up about it. The Director of the Church Army did nothing to stand up for me with the loss of my prison job. Curious. In particular the book PrayerDoes it make any difference? I began to teach Sunday School and lead Wednesday night prayer and study meetings, meanwhile preparing sermons. What a gracious and generous note. In regard to abortion and homosexuality, these are symptoms of a huge cultural and moral decay in our country, but judgmental Christians are crucifying the sinner, not the sin! I had been sexually abused by older men when I was a teenager, so I began to feel targeted. Actually, his views on abortion have been very mixed over the years, so I wouldnt count on it Philip, An article in CP politics has you wondering about voting for Donald Trump for pres. I liken him to one of the philosophers Paul addressed so wisely in Acts 17only, of course, Peterson is already familiar with the Christian story. If nothing else could you please pray I could be more of worth to my family and God would help with my depression and chronic pain. Jesus would not have had this response, had he been condemning the young man. In your book, Disappointment with God, you quote Moltmann on page 104: God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him. I love this quote, but I cannot find it anywhere in any of Moltmanns books or articles. I did not I could not imagine anyone holding a grudge and hatred for 18 years, I had very high respect for the Bishops, and leaders of the Church ,too high it seems and it did not enter my head that some could be as ugly as non Christians or worse. We ate lunch together before we delivered to the airport. Might you consider writing your next book as a Christian and for Christians? I want to SEE God. You warm my heart. His beliefs are more in line with New Age, a belief in supernatural and another world, but not one he would express in Christian terms. I have been so troubled by my Christian friends who have lashed out judgmentally at, well, at all Democrats! My, thats unimaginable. Lots of miracles. A delightful response, for which I thank you. I wanted to share it with you to let you know how you have been part of my faith journey, In love he[b] predestined us for adoption to sonship[c] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and willto the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. Ephesians 1:5-6 Thank you for taking the time to tell your story. He claimed that Bridges was not qualified to hire chaplains, and that it was associated with the Apostolic Church of Canada, an off-shoot of one of Canadas traditional churches. Philip. Didnt really see how anyone could have the time for it. Can you help me by telling me the difference between Christians and Evangelical Christians? Thank you for having such courage to write such a book and I want to know how you did it. Here is the story. That God is a creator who invented love and beauty and those things. Now I will go back lurking, Very helpful website, thank you. If longer, write us a pyasst@aol.com. That was 4 years ago and today I still struggle with my flesh but I know He truly loves me! Whats so Amazing About Grace is a book that has changed my life, so thank you for writing it. We would love to have you come and speak here! Gulp, Im uncomfortable being compared with Patrick Mahomes and really uncomfortable being idolized. She had called ahead and warned them this queer as she saw me was on the way. Your note is proof of that. When I teach fire safety (to adults, and after a warning), I show a video from the 2003 Station Nightclub Fire, very, very similar to last nights fire in Bucharest. I have read your books over the years and gained from them. Yes, I think a lot of it has to do with us humans relating to an invisible God. Physical Assault In this raw memoir, Philip Yancey shares about his life experiences growing up in an abusive home and a legalistic church environment. I am not an autograph hound, but it was fun to get your autograph on my 1987 Fearfully & Wonderfully Made paperback, and chat about your coming release of you and Dr. Brands rewrite of that book with. Lets be clear here. Ramazan was very dependent upon Paul to complete all the information on Moslem diets and other customs on the computer, and therefore worked closely with Paul. Women had it tough in those days! I was employed as a chaplain with Bridges of Canada from April 11, 2016 to February 14, 2017. As you know, no book can cover everything, and I am sorry you had different expectations when you got this book. Anyhow, I was wondering about your thoughts about the sexual abuse accusations that have arisen lately, particularly pointed out in the Fort Worth Telegraph. 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