Reaching for the Invisible God

Reaching for the Invisible God
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Reaching for the Invisible God

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"How do I relate to a God who is invisible when I’m never quite sure he’s there?" --Philip Yancey Life with God doesn’t always work like we thought. High expectations slam against the reality of personal weaknesses and unwelcome surprises. And the God who we’ve been told longs for our company may seem remote, emotionally unavailable. Is God playing games? What can we count on this God for? This relationship with a God we can’t see, hear, or touch--how does it really work? Reaching for the Invisible God offers deep, satisfying insights that affirm and dignify the questions we’re sometimes afraid to ask. In this Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Philip Yancey explores six foundational areas: our thirst for God, faith during times when God seems unavailable, the nature of God himself, our personal relationship with God, stages along the way, and the end goal of spiritual transformation. Honest and deeply personal, here is straight talk on Christian living for the man or woman who wants more than pat answers to life’s imponderables. Ultimately, Yancey shifts the focus from our questions to the One who offers himself in answer. The God who invites us to reach for him--and find.

Description of Reaching for the Invisible God:

Author Philip Yancey asks the question How does a relationship with God work? and answers it with an investigation that turns up surprising and satisfying answers about life and communication with an invisible God.

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Life has a way of toppling our presumptions as Christians. Just when we're confident we understand God, the bottom drops out. We lose a loved one. Our health fails. Or our own intellect begins to shout objections it once only whispered.Where is God with the answers? Why is he so distant so often? How do we bridge the gap? After all, God is not a physical being like us -- so how are we supposed to relate to him? If your hunger for God often seems more frustrating than satisfying ... If you've sensed a disturbing disparity between theology and experience, between God's promises and life's realities ...Or if you've seen God's promises work, but have stumbled and want to believe again ... then this book is for you. Award-winning author Philip Yancey articulates the fundamental questions that confront us all: How does life with God really work? How do I communicate with God? If God heals, why hasn't he healed my loved one? If he changes people, why am I still the same? How does God work -- and how does he work for me?Yancey takes us on a journey into personal faith where there are no sacred cows that can't be discussed. Intellectual doubt, hurt, risk, dark times, baffling providence, the mysteries and paradoxes of life ... the very things that threaten to capsize our trust can become the catalysts for a deeper, wiser, more mature yet childlike faith in the end.With trademark candor, Yancey trims away false expectations of God -- and in their place, reveals what we can expect of him. Here is a probing, personal look at six gut issues: What God is really like? What it means to desire God? How a relationship with an invisible God works. What faith looks like in actual operation. What stages we go through in personal growth. What we can expect in spiritual transformation.If you're ready for a spiritual journey that reconciles faith with honesty, start here. Reaching for the Invisible God helps you move from tough questions to a deeper relationship with a God you can trust, love, and live for with all your heart.

About Philip Yancey:

Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where is God when it Hurts, Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What’s So Amazing About Grace? were also awarded the Christian Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Bible Jesus Read.

Description of Philip Yancey, author of Reaching for the Invisible God:

In Disappointment With God, Philip Yancey explored how we frequently have false expectations of God and the way he interacts with us and the world. Now he looks at the situation from the other side, asking "How do we relate to a God who is invisible, when we are never quite sure he is there?" With his unflinching determination to explore truth, Yancey investigates how we communicate with an invisible God. He probes an area of faith where theology and personal experience often oppose each other and searches out workable ways for Christians to grow into what he calls "childlike maturity."