Books written by Philip Yancey

  • The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt and What We Can Do About It

    pressure per square millimeter for the cornea of the eye to feel pain, as opposed to 20 grams on the forearm, 200 on the sole of the foot, and 300 on the fingertips. The eye is a thousand times more sensitive to pain than the sole of ...

  • Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church

    He also read Pearson's Many Infallible Proofs (which "had no effect on me") and Butler's The Analogy of Religion among a host of other Christian books and commentaries. Still, he could not reconcile the disparity he saw between Christ ...

  • The New Student Bible/King James Version

    “ The sick are not merely prayed about , ” said Phillips , “ they are healed , often suddenly and dramatically .... Human nature is changed . The fresh air of Heaven blows gustily through these pages .

  • Student Bible

    AUTHOR J.B. PHILLIPS , AFTER SPENDING 14 years translating For if their purpose the New Testament , sat back and reflected on his most lasting impresor activity is of sions . He kept returning to the book of Acts and its portrait of an ...

  • Destiny and Deliverance: Spiritual Insights from the Life of Moses

    Spiritual Insights from the Life of Moses Philip Yancey, Tommy Barnett, Max Lucado, John C. Maxwell, Jack W. Hayford, Joni Eareckson Tada, Kenneth Boa. 202 0 Two staged memory lessons were not enough . Despite Moses ' exhausted state ...

  • The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt & what We Can Do about it

    one exception was Dr. Derek Denny-Brown, a New Zealander and a brilliant neurologist who practiced at a charity ... The cat was anesthetized, of course, so she didn't feel anything, but the trauma caused the nerve to swell up to double ...

  • Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God's Image

    ... teeth sockets decrease in size, the chin protrudes, the jaw angles in, and the elderly are often left with more ... (1 Corinthians 11:24) 10 Remember the poor (Galatians 2:10) 11 Anoint the sick with oil (James 5:14) 12 Permit no ...

  • A Skeptic's Guide to Faith

    Looks at both the visible and supernatural to search for faith, offering new perspectives on looking beyond what is visible to find meaning and purpose in life.

  • In His Image

    In His Image takes up where its predecessor left off, beckoning us once again inward and onward to fresh exploration and discovery.Yancey and Brand show how accurately and intricately the human body portrays the Body of Christ.

  • Where Is God When It Hurts?

    : "One of the most helpful treatments of the problem of evil that I've ever read. If I were looking around for something to give to individuals who are going through travail or difficulty, this is the book I'd recommend.

  • Where Is God When It Hurts?

    This perennial best-seller, now in a revised and expanded edition, includes a study guide. The book and study materials focus on the role of pain in God's plan for life and how we can respond to it.

  • What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters

    Here is a story of grace for armchair travelers, spiritual seekers, and those in desperate need of assurance that their faith really matters.

  • Gracia divina vs. condena humana

    Capítulo 1: La última de las grandes palabras 12: Niebuhr: Citado por D. Ivan Dykstra en Who am I? and Other Sermons ... Capítulo 2: Un relato: El banquete de Babette 19: Babette's Feast: Cuento corto incluido en la obra de Isak Dinesen ...

  • What's So Amazing about Grace?

    Philip Yancey's What's So Amazing About Grace? won the Book of the Year Award in 1998 and has sold over one million copies since it was first published in 1997.

  • What's So Amazing about Grace?

    In this Gold Medallion Book of the Year, best-selling author Philip Yancey gives us a probing look at grace: what it looks like ... what it doesn't look like ... and why only Christians can and must reveal the grace the world is searching ...

  • The Jesus I Never Knew: Participant's Guide : Six Sessions on the Life of Christ

    The Revolutionary Grace of Jesus 4. The Miracles of Jesus 5. The Death of Jesus 6. The Resurrection, Ascension and Ongoing Presence of Jesus. The Jesus I Never Knew DVD and Participant's Guide are available separately.

  • The Bible Jesus Read: Why the Old Testament Matters

    In A Skeptic's Guide to Faith, previously titled Rumors of Another World, Philip Yancey writes: “I am where you are ... an ordinary person trying to figure things out. I love, I experience beauty and pain, my friends die, I weep, ...

  • Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?

    Looks at both the visible and supernatural to search for faith, offering new perspectives on looking beyond what is visible to find meaning and purpose in life.

  • Meet the Bible: A Panorama of God's Word in 366 Daily Readings and Reflections

    Meet the Bible introduces you to the full, epic sweep of the Bible -- the characters, the places, the times, the stories, and the meanings of this Book of books -- and shows you that even the most obscure passage can hold relevance for your ...