Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1491547596 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 468 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yancey lives with his wife in Colorado. Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. . He has written thirteen Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards for What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies
Research shows that favorable opinions of Christianity have plummeted drastically—and opinions of Evangelicals have taken even deeper dives.So what’s so good about the Good News?In his landmark audiobook, What’s So Amazing about Grace, Yancey issued a call for Christians to be as grace-filled in their behavior as they are in declaring their beliefs. Then he explores what is Good News and what is worth preserving in a culture that thinks it has rejected Christian faith.. In this important and compelling new audiobook, New York Times bestselling author Philip Yancey explores what may have contributed to hostility toward Christians, especially Evangelicals, and offers illuminating stories of how faith can be expressed in ways that disarm even the most cynical critics.Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?Philip Yancey has been asking this all his life as a journalist. His perennial que
Here he poses the question, 'How is Christianity still relevant in a post-Christian culture'? Yancey is one of the best writers of our time, with his books already regarded as classics. The Church Times The book encourages us to look again at our life and witness to ensure that we treat people as people and not as a cause. Together Magazine Journalist and popular writer, Philip Yancey asks why the church tends to so often stir up negative vibes in our society. --Rev Paul Wilson The Methodist Recorder . Eddie Olliffe Blog Interview with Philip Preach Magazine An interesting, lively and thought provoking insight into the theological, ecclesiastical, and cultural questions being grappled with by our American brothers and sisters.
She said A Must-read for church leaders. Best if you are familiar w/my fave, What's So Amazing About Grace, but definitely stands alone.. I read What's So Amazing About Grace (WSAAG) about 7 years ago. It is one of the best books I have ever read. Period. In it Yancey described real life examples of what grace is and what it isn't. It's a book I reference when I need a reminder of what grace looks like and I quote from it to others. I would'. Three of the four sections were excellent. There are four parts to this book and even in the introduction Yancey says that this is essentially four different books. I just wish he had tried to do less.The first part is all about the vanishing of grace from the message of the church. This part is five stars and I would like virtually all Christians . Worth reading Avid Reader This book spoke to some issues I have pondered over the past year as I've tried to understand why so many US churches are ineffective, and to find a context for hurtful things Christians sometimes do to each other in the name of religion. It's clear I'm not the only one with these struggles, and that in th