Philip Yancey

The author, a journalist and spiritual seeker has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in this book concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; on the Virginia Tech campus...

Award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace, the engine that powers Christian love and pushes evil away with forgiveness, in action in everyday life. As he searches for its presence in his own life and in the church, he finds that grace is indeed shocking and scandalous as it shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope.

As the world entered a long dark night, Philip Yancey returned to a nearly 400-year-old manuscript for guidance. In it, he found a trustworthy companion for living through a global pandemic - or any other crisis. As Yancey says, "Nothing had prepared me for John Donne's raw account of confrontations with God." Preacher and poet John Donne wrote Devotions in 1623, during a pandemic in his city of London. For a month he lay sick, hearing the church...

Featuring the complete text of the New International Version translation, this study Bible includes cross references, concise study notes, theological notes, translators' footnotes, in-text subject headings, words of Jesus in red, concordance, and full color maps.