Reaching for the Invisible God : What Can We Expect to Find?

by Philip Yancey

• ISBN13: 9780310247302
• ISBN10: 0310247306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

"How do I relate to a God who is invisible when I'm never quite sure he's there?" --Philip YanceyLife 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Part One---Thirst: Our Longing for God	11	(24)
Born Again Breech	13	(12)
Thirsting at the Fountainside	25	(10)
Part Two---Faith: When God Seems Absent, Indifferent, or Even Hostile	35	(62)
Room for Doubt	37	(14)
Faith Under Fire	51	(12)
Two-Handed Faith	63	(10)
Living in Faith	73	(12)
Mastery of the Ordinary	85	(12)
Part Three---God: Contact with the Invisible	97	(62)
Knowing God, or Anyone Else	99	(14)
Personality Profile	113	(10)
In the Name of the Father	123	(12)
Rosetta Stone	135	(12)
The Go-Between	147	(12)
Part Four---Union: A Partnership of Unequals	159	(50)
Makeover	161	(12)
Out of Control	173	(12)
Passion and the Desert	185	(12)
Spiritual Amnesia	197	(12)
Part Five---Growth: Stages Along the Way	209	(38)
Child	211	(12)
Adult	223	(12)
Parent	235	(12)
Part Six---Restoration: The Relationship's End	247	(42)
Paradise Lost	249	(10)
God's Irony	259	(10)
An Arranged Marriage	269	(10)
The Fruit of Friday's Toil	279	(10)
Notes	289