Latest Book Released Today In the U.S.; Live Radio Interview 1:30 p.m. (E.S.T.)
Philip Yancey’s newest book, What Good Is God, makes its U.S. debut today, October 19.
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About Philip Yancey
For Yancey, reading offered a window to a different world. So, he devoured books that opened his mind, challenged his upbringing, and went against what he had been taught. A sense of betrayal engulfed him.
Mr. Yancey, I believe I’ve read all your work now and some more than once live Prayer and What’s so Amazing about Grace. What is next after What Good is God? Please put me on your e-mail notification list.
Joe
Warsaw, IN
Dear Philip,
I have enjoyed every single one of your books since I first read “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made” many years ago. In “What Good is God?” I completely connected with your experiences in pointing us to the grace of God and how God interacts with his creation in very difficult situations. In the section “Grace Under Fire”, you include the story of Bartimaeus, his name meaning “son of filth” in Hebrew. I would like to do a personal study on names in the Bible and their original meaning. I couldn’t find a good references for this name and meaning. If you have an opportunity, please comment further on this name as it was translated in the original Hebrew/Greek.
Again, thank you so much for all the years that you have shared your insights regarding God with us through your books.
Samuel d Sousa
In Reply:
Henri Nouwe & Mother Teresa, just like John of the Cross had experienced a
‘dark night of the soul’. This is very diferent than ‘doubting the existance of God.
God bless
I have enjoyed reading your new book, What Good is God? “In search of faith that matters”. I wanted to know what your thoughts are about what as happened in Arizona? In search of faith, I believe only through resurrection before we die can our faith be real.
One of the best books i have read……..dont stop writing ever 🙂
Reading your comments to the group of business people in China-
The comments about Marxism and morality being delivered at the point of a gun remind me a lot of the rhetoric from the Religious Right in the most recent election; and how Christianity does spring from the bottom up rather than the top down…
also, the concept of God moving to where people want to hear about God– in this case China and Africa.
There’s a connection there about when the time comes that the Gospel has to be delivered at gunpoint, God has already moved on; but the words aren’t quite coming to mind.
Thanks again for continuing to write.
I hope the winter weather isn’t affecting your neck too badly.
Marty
When I read your “What’s So Amazing About Grace” I was captivated by the message. When I read it again, I was captivated by your style . . . so I bought a second book: The Jesus I Never Knew. The more I read your books, the more the message sinks in . . . and the more I become amazed by the way you deliver it, using precise words.
Totally captured, I bought the next books, one after the other. I read Where is God When It Hurts, Disappointment With God, The Bible Jesus Read, Reaching for the Invisible God, and Rumors of Another World. I am planning to complete all your books including your articles. In the mean time, I am reading Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and Soul Survivor.
I hope before I finish Soul Survivor, What Good is God is already available here in the Philippines. I am excited about it . . . just another book from my favorite author.
Thank you sir Phillip for writing books that really penetrates and leaves strong impact to our lives, and to the “undeserving” people like me.
God bless you!
Hello – I’ve never read any of your books before and I just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying What Good is God? I tried to write down a few of your quotes in the book (I’m listening to an audio) and you mention these and i think they are by CS Lewis:
Can you confirm they are by him and if not by whom?
‘Prayer is a privilege and not a duty. Bible Reading is a source of life and not an obligation’
‘We should have our hands outstretched… embracing … the world’. Sorry I was at work and had a hard time catching this one.
There was also a quote by James Asey (sp?) about the poor:
“each is a new, incommunicable life” – is that right?
I haven’t been able to find these 3 quotes online by doing a search and I was wondering if you could clarify for me?
Thank you so much! Tina “The Book Lady”
In reply:
the books are really relevant for today, i was also wondering about major depression and mental illnesses, i have depression then im told its a demon then im told its an illness, what does one believe about things like depression?
kind regards
laura
Dear Philip,
I just sent you a response I hadn’t fully finished–my life and use of technology are often much alike. I pastor the First Presbyterian Church of Quincy, MA, and it is likely that we might be able to use your book as a follow-up to the energies generated among us from our reading Rich Stearn’s The Hole in Our Gospel.
Again, thank you for writing.
Sincerely,
Stan
Hi Mr Yancey, I get your in these days and I´m starting. Was a pleasure to read a inscription for us, brazilians. A hug and I will back here to say about the new book.
Philip:
I just finished reading ‘What Good is God?’ and found it very moving. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on South Africa and on C.S. Lewis (being, of course, a big Lewis fan myself). The elections in your country yesterday made the chapter ‘Upon this Rock’ especially poignant – also the deaths in the church in Baghdad with the chapter ‘Streams in the Desert’.
Thanks again, Philip. I continue to remember with gratitude your generosity with your time when we met at Regent College years ago, and the occasional exchange of emails since then. I’m glad to have found this blog.
Yours in Christ,
Tim Chesterton
Hello Philip!
Thank you for being ever God’s grace to me once again. Have almost completed reading What Good Is God? Just like all your other books it shines, it really does! You continue to be God’s sharp instrument of His boundless Love. As you spread more of His joy and Love in Romania may you yourself encounter in return His inestimable LOVE that He has for you His very own’s precious. God bless and have a real wonderful day!
An Avid Yancey Fan,
Kim( Malaysia)
I am currently reading The Jesus I Never Knew… and I just wanted to tell you that this book made me cry, question, and rejoice. Thank you so much for such an inquisitive journey. I look forward to reading your other books.
Philip,
Was listening to your radio interviews and have read your testimony in the Men’s Devotional Bible. I was wondering what you think about the chosen people’s troubles they continue to have in their corner of the world. God told them that they were to take the territories in Israel when they left Egypt. This was to be their property that he promised to them. They have been having trouble keeping that territory in total from their taking of it. The Bible is very specific about that area they were promised but God has made them fight to defend its area from the beginning. They seem to have lost God’s help in keeping the Promised Land. It seems that most of the Jews are more or less secular. The Orthodox Jews continue to live the old ways of the Commandments. Why do you think they are having so much trouble with the Palestinian people. They were displaced when the Jews were given back their territory after World War ll. Do you think God is once again giving them a hard time because of their secular slide ?
Sincerely,
David Gauvreau
Christine Eustaquio’s opinions about the Catholic Church reflect my long-time prejudice against the Roman sect. I was raised Catholic by a staunch, Catholic father, but came to Christ as a young adult when a loving family of believers befriended me. For years, I bitterly regarded the Roman sect as the apostate church, even though I counted several born again Catholics among my close friends.
Years later a beautifully spirited old saint related to me a story from his missionary days in Mexico: His denomination called upon him and his wife to travel south from their home in Montana. Their mission? To construct a church building in a remote, rural Mexican village. Though the local Catholic diocese violently opposed Protestant expansion into its territory, one local priest risked not only his career, but his very life, to help build that modest Church of God meeting place. Through his sweet spirit and positive intervention, the local diocese relented, allowing the building construction to finish, while officially discouraging its own constituents from entering it.
That display of true Christian love was an epiphany to my friend, whose rearing had taught him that Catholics were a bunch of idol worshipers.
Preconceptions–especially in avowed Christians–are a ministry killer. Failing to love as Christ loved belies any gospel preaching or witnessing, and only succeeds in embittering people toward God’s truth. Jesus issued one of His most dire warnings as recorded in Luke 17:1-4, where He promised His disciples that they would regret causing “one of these little ones” to stumble.
Nuff said?
I am not aware that Nouwen or Mother Teresa doubted God’s existence, though they did write openly about their experience of the “absence” of God. Recently the Vatican has moved much closer to the Reformed doctrine of justification by faith so I don’t think it’s accurate to say that Catholics subscribe to faith + good works. Regardless, I find much wisdom and nourishment from these two authors, as well as the many Protestants I cite.
Dear Philip,
Delighted to receive your email announcement and can’t wait to read the book.
You’re one of our favorite authors today. As Dr. Francis Schaeffer did, you have a finger on the pulse of true Christianity. That’s what we all need. Please keep writing & abundant blessings!
Dear Mr. Yancey, I am just wondering why when you give illustrations about great “Christians” 2 names inevitably crop up: Mother Teresa and Henri Nouwen… Staunch Roman Catholics who believed Jesus but also in the gospel of works… are we not saved by faith? (Of course i know saving faith is evidenced by works) but Roman Catholic way of salvation is faith + good works. Wasn’t Jesus death on the cross enough payment then? Shall i subscribe to the Roman Catholic way of salvation through the sacraments and Mary as the dispenser of those sacraments? I find it strange that with the number of great Christian examples to choose from, you choose these 2 who despaired about their faith and even doubted that God existed. I do not condemn them or anything but i really want to know is there such a dearth of Christian examples that you have to use Roman Catholic stalwarts as your model Christians?
Christine Eustaquio