Rating:  Summary: A honest book Review: This is a honest book of a honest pilgrim in this world. A lot of christian books seems to create a fantacy world for christians. This book picture a real christian life in a real world. It does not make God a lesser God but a real God. A God that never let us down, but also a God that does not deliver us from all kind of pain when we live here in this world. A God that does not play along with western cultures easy life thinking, bot a God that lead us through real life such as most of us experience it.
Rating:  Summary: Every Yancey's book is a new surprise Review: Well,I'm a young Brazilian ( 22 ), who speaks Portuguese and try to talk and read in English. Since I have read Yancey's books my way of faith has been different. He showed me a new "prisma" and another style of Christianity : The true Christianity. He writes and says exactly he thinks, not formal or acceptable words, Yancey introduce us a new conception. THis book, Reaching for the Invisible God is a gift from God to every Christian. When you read it you'll realize how God is near from us but we don't realize or how He desires to have a close relationship with us. I love it. How can you have a relationship with God when you aren't sure if He exists? This is the bottom-line of this book.
Rating:  Summary: What's so amazing about Grace Review: While reading this book, I was stunned as it felt like Mr Yancy wrote it for me. I stopped being a christian for about 20 years, because I had many questions regarding christianity but was always told not to ask questions that only sinners dared question our faith. I was made to feel I was a sinner and was doomed, until a friend presented me with this great book. The sentence "nothing we can do will make God love us less, and nothing we can do will make God love us more" are imprinted in my heart for ever. I have started going to Church, I love God and am striving to know more about him, I now know I am not doomed to everlasting hell. Thank you Mr Yancy, God bless. I reccomend this book to anyone who is put off by some Christians overbearing, and holier than thou attitudes. I really can't describe what this book did for me, one has to read it. I have read all of Mr Yancy's books except Reaching for the Invisible God which I have ordered, and "found something" in every one.
Rating:  Summary: Another great book filled with insight Review: Yancey continues to deliver with outstanding and insightful prose that both carefully asks the questions and then answers them. Of course the answers are merely thoughts from the human perspective, but the questions are universal and Yancey has a way of helping me (a dense headed but trying Christian) see the answers and God Himself in a a clearer light. I can't recommend this and other books by him enough. I am currently in the middle of my second time through this one, I consider his books a great bargin, they all get read more than once.
Rating:  Summary: Great Book Review: Yancey really won me over with this one! He helped me to deal with questions I've been struggling with for over 25 years. His totally open, honest style is a refreshing contrast to that of so many Christian authors and television ministries.
Rating:  Summary: One of the Best Review: Yancey's best so far, I think, and I've read them all. The favorite from a favorite author.
Rating:  Summary: Great Thoughts on Building a Real Faith Review: Yancey's latest journey into faith has the same honesty and reality that make all his other books a welcome remedy to many other "Don't worry, be happy" books on the Christian faith. There are immaculate pearls of insight in this book, and anyone with a desire to contemplate their faith - and come out feeling excited about it - will not be disappointed. My only criticism is that the book is more a dumping of great thoughts, than something that moves along with a common theme. But don't let that stand in your way. Yancey is the type of writer you'd trust with your inner doubts and anxieties. Those new to Yancey should jump first into "The Jesus I Never Knew" - that is a faith-changing book - but those considering buying "Invisible God" will likely already have that one in their library.
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