A Church to Move the World

"We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world."

—G. K. Chesterton

Yancey on God's Redemptive Work

Philip Yancey on the redemptive work of God:

I once was part of a small group with a Christian leader whose name you would likely recognize. He went through ...

Chinese Prisoner Finds True Freedom

Thousands of Chinese Christians were killed during the Boxer Rebellion—a nationwide effort to snuff out any foreign influences in China that were ...

Yancey Puts Pain in Perspective

On February 25, 2007, author and speaker Philip Yancey experienced a horrible car accident. In an article for Christianity Today, he describes the crash ...

Power Encounter in Ghana

I once met a brother from Ghana, West Africa, who was completing his PhD in the School of World Missions at Fuller Theological Seminary. During one of ...

Where Is the Church When It Hurts?

Author and speaker Philip Yancey writes:

One day a man said to me, "You wrote a book called Where Is God When It Hurts, right?"

"Yes."

Paralyzed Football Player's Life of Faith

Darryl Stingley was declared dead in a Chicago hospital on April 5, 2007, after having been found unresponsive in his home. He was 55.

Stingley spent 29 ...

Yancey on Prayer and the Mystery of Life

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. Prayer offers no ironclad guarantees—just the certain promise that we need not live ...

Oklahoma City Tree Brings Hope

The most-sacred symbol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a tree: a sprawling, shade-bearing, 80-year-old American Elm. Tourists drive from miles around to ...

Former Muslim Baptized Despite His Burns

Missionaries Ilir and Kate Cami write:

For some years we have worked with a ministry to refugees in Athens, Greece. Athens is part of the "Refugee ...