Philip Yancey Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

In his most powerful book since What’s So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat—the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect—of 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. Writing as a fellow pilgrim, Yancey explores such questions as: •Is God listening? •Why should God care about me? •If God knows everything, what’s the point of prayer? •Why do answers to prayer seem so inconsistent and capricious? •Why does God seem sometimes close and sometimes far away? •How can I make prayer more satisfying? “I have found that the most important purpose of prayer may be to let ourselves be loved by God,” says Yancey. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? encourages us to pray to God the Father who sees what lies ahead of us, knows what lies within us, and who invites us into an eternal partnership—through prayer. Also available: unabridged audio CD.

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, “How do I live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural?” Philip writes, “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. “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.” Yancey invites readers to join him on a journey of discovery. He challenges us to tune into “rumors of another world,” and connect the seen with the unseen. He promises that the grace-filled result will be a life of beauty, purpose, freedom, and faith.

Každý člověk, který se někdy tázal po smyslu života, po existenci Boha a setkal se s osobou Ježíše, se ptal: „Vážně Bohu na nás záleží? Má vůbec Bůh zájem o utrpení tady na zemi?“ Philip Yancey ve své knize na tyto otázky odpovídá: Jestli tak mohu mluvit, Bůh „se naučil“, jak chutná život uvězněný na planetě Zemi. Ježíš poznal zármutek důvěrně, během krátkého, strastiplného života nedaleko prašných plání, kde se kdysi v bolestech svíjel Jób… V Ježíši se Bůh jakoby položil na pitevní stůl, rozpažený v pozici ukřižovaného, aby se dal k přezkoumání všem skeptikům, kteří kdy žili… Mám pocit, že všechny ty pokroucené teorie o Ježíši, které samovolně vznikaly už od chvíle, kdy zemřel, prostě jen potvrzují to nesmírné riziko, jaké Bůh podstoupil, když se položil na pitevní stůl – a dokonce se zdá, že to riziko vítá: „Prozkoumej mě. Vyzkoušj si mě. Rozhoduješ ty.“

Nefalšovaná milost je šokující, skandální. Boří konvence, protože se přibližuje k těm, kdo se provinili proti nám, protože se jich dotýká s láskou a nadějí. Milost přináší odpuštění – a odpuštění obnovuje. Autor ve svých jednotlivých zamyšleních, která jsou ilustrována skutečnými příběhy, hledá hloubku milosti, naděje a odpuštění.

No part of the Bible goes unstudied in this book's search for God's hidden nature.