Bøger af Philip Yancey

"e;How do I relate to a God who is invisible when I'm never quite sure he's there?"e;--Philip YanceyLife 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 quest for answers. Dovetailing with Philip Yancey's book Reaching for the Invisible God, the twelve sessions are your opportunity to journey toward insights that affirm and dignify your most pressing questions--even the ones you may have found it hard to ask. Get ready to experience the challenges and rewards of relating to God as he is, not as you've thought he is. Yancey shifts your focus from questions to the One who offers himself in answer: the God who invites you to reach for him--and find.Includes:* Bible readings * Discussion questions* Personal reflections and applications* Tips for group leaders* Summary excerpts from Reaching for the Invisible God

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 of Christ.

Philip Yancey has a gift for articulating the knotty issues of faith. In this 25th Anniversary edition of Disappointment with God, Yancey poses three questions that Christians wonder but seldom ask aloud: Is God unfair? Is he silent? Is he hidden? This insightful and deeply personal book points to the odd disparity between our concept of God and the realities of life. Why, if God is so hungry for relationship with us, does he seem so distant? Why, if he cares for us, do bad things happen? What can we expect from him after all? Yancey answers these questions with clarity, richness, and biblical assurance. He takes us beyond the things that make for disillusionment to a deeper faith, a certitude of God's love, and a thirst to reach not just for what God gives, but for who he is. Included in this anniversary edition is a study guide with questions about these perplexing questions of faith that the author confronts.

Picking up where he left off in bestseller WHERE IS GOD WHEN IT HURTS?, Philip Yancey tells stories from his recent life experiences, raising this perennial question but suggesting fresh encouragement for faith - even when it is most severely put to the test.

Can there be a world without pain? The answer is 'yes'. This book is about a leprosy colony. A world where people don't feel the pain but are suffering terrible consequences. After his work with lepers in India, Dr. Paul Brand began to explore the mystery of pain and he reveals its importance.

Philip Yancey has a way of confronting our most cherished but misguided notions about faith. In 'The Bible Jesus Read', he challenges the perception that the New Testament is all that matters and the Old Testament isn't worth taking the time to read and understand. Yancey admits that, like many Christians, he usually avoided the Old Testament. After all, why bother with writings that can be so baffling, boring, even offensive to the modern mind? But a surprising discovery awaited Yancey when he began to explore how the Old Testament related to his life today. Those seemingly irrelevant Hebrew Scriptures took on a startling immediacy, portraying a passionate relationship between God and people against the broad backdrop of human experience. Like nothing else, the Old Testament depicts the cries, the complaints, the deep, insistent questionings of the heart, the stuff of life we all must contend with. With his candid, signature style, Yancey interacts with the Old Testament from the perspective of his own deeply personal journey. From Moses, the amazing prince of Egypt, to the psalmists' turbulent emotions and the prophets' oddball rantings, Yancey paints a picture of Israel's God--and ours--that fills in the blanks of a solely New Testament vision of the Almighty. Probing some carefully selected Old Testament books--Job, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the Prophets--Yancey reveals how the Old Testament deals in astonishing depth and detail with the issues that trouble us most. The Old Testament in fact tackles what the New Testament often only skirts. But that shouldn't surprise us. It is, after all, the Bible Jesus read. 'The Bible Jesus Read' will give you abundant new insights into the heart of God the Father. And as you read with a fresh eye the prayers, poems, songs, and bedtime stories that Jesus so revered, you will gain a profound new understanding of Christ. 'The more we comprehend the Old Testament, ' Yancey writes, 'the more we comprehend Jesus.'

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?

When life gets tough what use is a belief in God?

In this six-session study, award-winning author Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeatthe most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspectof our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? How does it work? And more importantly, does it work? In theory, prayer is the essential human act, a priceless point of contact between us and the God of the universe. In practice, prayer is often frustrating, confusing, and fraught with mystery. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? is an exploration of the mysterious intersection where God and humans meet and relate. Designed for use with the video.

Winner of the CBC Book of the Year 2002. In his most personally revealing book yet, Philip Yancey searches for the true hallmarks of Christian faith

The Old Testament is God's biography, the story of his passionate encounters with people and also a prequel to the story of Jesus. This Zondervan Groupware uses video and group discussion to explore the sometimes shocking and cryptic writings in an effort to know God better.

What on earth are we missing? Philip Yancey believes we are missing the supernatural hidden in everyday life.In Rumors of Another World, Yancey investigates the natural world and discovers the supernatural hiding in plain view. He grapples with why God made the world and what our role truly is, and seeks to answer the question, "e;How do I live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural?"e;Philip writes, "e;I have come to understand faith as the highest form of integrated encounter. Faith puts together, assembles, re-orders, accepting the entire world as God's handiwork. We live among clues, like rescuers sifting through pieces of stained glass shattered by a bomb, and only with a blueprint or some memory of original design can we begin to connect the shards, to assemble them into a pattern that makes sense of our world."e;Nature and supernature are not two separate worlds, but different expressions of the same reality. To encounter the world as a whole, we need a more supernatural awareness of the natural world."e;Yancey invites readers to join him on a journey of discovery. He challenges us to tune into "e;rumors of another world,"e; and connect the seen with the unseen. He promises that the grace-filled result will be a life of beauty, purpose, freedom, and faith.

Brilliant, provocative, inspirational and earthy - a much-loved Philip Yancey collection of everyday spirituality.

The participant's guide to the Gold Medallion Award-winning ZondervanGroupware for groups of all sizes. This book helps group members explore, understand, and appreciate Christianity's greatest gift to the world: grace.

"e;There is no writer in the evangelical world that I admire and appreciate more."e;Billy GrahamPhilip Yancey helps reveal what two thousand years of history covered upWhat happens when a respected Christian journalist decides to put his preconceptions aside and take a long look at the Jesus described in the Gospels? How does the Jesus of the New Testament compare to the "e;new, rediscovered"e; Jesus-or even the Jesus we think we know so well? 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. From the manger in Bethlehem to the cross in Jerusalem, Yancey presents a complex character who generates questions as well as answers; a disturbing and exhilarating Jesus who wants to radically transform your life and stretch your faith.The Jesus I Never Knew uncovers a Jesus who is brilliant, creative, challenging, fearless, compassionate, unpredictable, and ultimately satisfying. "e;No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same,"e; says Yancey. "e;Jesus has rocked my own preconceptions and has made me ask hard questions about why those of us who bear his name don't do a better job of following him."e;

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 a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain-physical, emotional, and spiritual-and helps us understand why we suffer. Where Is God When It Hurts? will speak to those for whom life sometimes just doesn't make sense. And it will help equip anyone who wants to reach out to someone in pain but just doesn't know what to say.

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, the Old Testament can be baffling, boring, and even offensive to the modern reader. But as he personally discovered, the Old Testament is full of rewards for the one who embraces its riches. With his candid, signature style, Yancey unfolds his interactions with the Old Testament from the perspective of his own deeply personal journey. From Moses, the amazing prince of Egypt, to the psalmists' turbulent emotions and the prophets' oddball rantings, Yancey paints a picture of Israel's God - and ours - that fills in the blanks of a solely New Testament vision of the Almighty. As he reconnects for us the strong, sinuous chords that bind the Old and New Testaments, Yancey reclaims the Reformers' deep sense of unity between the two. Most important, he says, reading the Scriptures that Jesus so revered gives believers a profound new understanding of Christ, the Cornerstone of the new covenant. "e;The more we comprehend the Old Testament,"e; Yancey writes, "e;the more we comprehend Jesus."e;

Hvordan kan man relatere til en Gud, som er usynlig, og hvis eksistens man ikke kan bevise? Læs denne indsigtsfulde bog og lad Philip Yancey hjælpe dig til at finde svar.Livet i Gud fungerer ikke altid sådan, som vi forventede. Ofte kolliderer forventningerne med livets barske realiteter og vores egen magtesløshed. Den Gud, som Bibelen forkynder er kommet os nær, og som kaldes vores himmelske Far, kan ofte synes fjern og utilnærmelig. Leger Gud kispus med os? Kan vi regne med ham? Tør vi stole på ham? Hvordan kan vi få et personligt forhold til ham?Denne bog formidler en dyb indsigt, der imødekommer og bekræfter de svære spørgsmål, som vi ofte er bange for at stille. Ærligt og redeligt deler Yancey her sin indsigt med enhver, der ønsker mere end patentløsninger på livets svære spørgsmål - for til sidst at skifte fokus fra vores spørgsmål til ham, der er selve Svaret, og som har lagt sig i vores hænder for at lade sig gribe og finde.

Bøn af Philip Yancey blev valgt til årets kristne bog 2007 i England i forbindelse med CBC (Christian Booksellers Convention). Efter to års research har Yancey skrevet denne interessante bog om bøn og om bøns virkning.Bogen handler om, hvad bøn er. Som altid går Yancey til sit emne med en blanding af skepsis og åbenhed. Bogen fortæller om forskellige menneskers bønnevaner, hvordan de beder, om de får svar mm. Heriblandt er der en del sjove historier. Som altid, og også i denne bog, formår Yancey at kæde hverdag, kristenliv og den åndelige verden sammen.En inspirerende og lærerig bog.

Philip Yancey, der har skrevet bestsellerne 'Den nåde jeg ikke kendte' og 'Den Gud jeg ikke kendte' sætter her fokus på personen Jesus, hans liv og hans tidsløse budskab.Philip Yanceys bøger er solgt i over 14 mio. ekspl. Han beskriver i et interview sine bøger således: "Mine bøger er et udtryk for min famlen. Jeg er bare en synder, der har fundet nåde. Jeg vælger bevidst svære emner, som jeg ikke kender svarene eller løsningen på. Det er virkeligt et stort privilegium at bruge et par år på at finde ud af noget. Og hvis jeg allerede kendte svarene, når jeg startede, ville jeg kede mig meget, meget hurtigt. Før jeg skrev "Den Jesus jeg ikke kendte", tænkte jeg: „Jeg har læst mange bøger om Jesus, men ingen af dem har beskrevet den Jesus, jeg kender, så den beskrivelse vil jeg gerne skrive”.

Vi taler ofte om nåde. Men forstår vi, hvad vi taler om. Og hvad der er mere vigtigt, tror vi på nåden .... og vidner vore liv lige så stærkt om den, som vore ord gør. Forfatteren til bestselleren Den Jesus jeg ikke kendte sætter i sin hidtil mest. personlige bog fokus på nåde: Hvad er nåde ... hvad er nåde ikke... og hvorfor kristne kan og skal vise den nåde, som verden søger efter. "Jeg har uden tvivl aldrig læst en bedre bog af en kristen forfatter."Dr. Robert A. Seiple, formand for World Vision "Philip Yancey er en af de mest fængende og overbevisende forfattere inden for den kristne verden. Og endnu en gang vil han formå at få alle til at hidse sig op. "CharLes W. Colson, Prison Fellowship Ministry