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By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:31:49 +0000

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

By: samuel de sousa

samuel de sousa — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:35:31 +0000

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:

I have since learned that the meaning of “Bartimaeus” is under dispute. If you Google it, you’ll find various opinions. I was using just one source when I wrote that in the book, and should have checked more thoroughly.
Philip

By: Deacon Robert

Deacon Robert — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:42:48 +0000

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

By: Glennen Grannemann

Glennen Grannemann — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:40:02 +0000

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.

By: maggie daniel

maggie daniel — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:17:42 +0000

One of the best books i have read……..dont stop writing ever 🙂

By: Marty Jones

Marty Jones — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:00:36 +0000

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

By: Arnold L. Pasamba

Arnold L. Pasamba — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:03:27 +0000

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!

By: Tina "The Book Lady"

Tina "The Book Lady" — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:07:45 +0000

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:

Tina: Sorry about the delay in responding. The first two quotes are by yours truly. The last is from James Agee, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”
Philip

By: laura

laura — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:58:05 +0000

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

By: Stan Johnson

Stan Johnson — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:25:42 +0000

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