Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?
Written by Philip Yancey
Narrated by Jay Charles
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Why does God feel so distant so often, and how do I bridge the gap?
- Does your hunger for God often seem more frustrating than satisfying?
- Have you sensed a disturbing disparity between God's promises and life's realities?
- Have you seen God's promises work, but you've stumbled and want to believe again?
Award-winning author Philip Yancey articulates the fundamental questions that confront us all: "How do I relate to a God who is invisible when I'm never quite sure he's there?"
Reaching for the Invisible God?offers deep, satisfying insights to the questions you’re sometimes afraid to ask. Honest and deeply personal, here is straight talk on Christian living for the reader who wants more than pat answers to life's imponderables.
Ultimately, Yancey shifts the focus from your questions to the One who offers himself in answer.
"A brilliant book. It is both profound and simple, the best blend, in my view. Simple is neither shallow, nor simplistic. The sections on doubt and God's 'absence' are classics." — Rick Warren, pastor and author,?The Purpose Driven Life
Philip Yancey
Philip Yancey previously served as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written thirteen Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards, for What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies. He lives with his wife in Colorado. Learn more at philipyancey.com.
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Reviews for Reaching for the Invisible God
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Philip Yancey is one of my favourite modern Christian authors; he writes honestly, without being over-religious or assuming that everyone is the same. He addresses the kinds of questions that Christians (and others) have about God. How is it that we can 'have a relationship' with Someone who is invisible and intangible? What does it mean to relate anyway? Can we really know God?
Peppered with anecdotes, this book is refreshing and insightful. It's not something to read all in one sitting: there's too much to take in. Mostly I read a few pages every day or two, sometimes a whole chapter, sometimes nothing. I found it inspiring in a low-key, comfortable sort of way. I do like it when an author writes in the way I would like to write, expressing sentiments that have occurred to me... yet with his own slant, and circumstances quite different from my own.
Highly recommended to anyone who likes a thoughtful Christian book.
On second reading, five years after the first, I found it a bit slow-moving and less inspiring in the early sections, but much more thought-provoking in the second half. Still five stars overall.2 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A must read for any Christian who has battled with being here....
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I was very disappointed by this book. For the countless believers who long to know the invisible God this book offers little help. The invisible God that Yancey writes about is not so 'unknowable'. For believers who long for intimacy with God and who like Moses yearn for more of His glory I recommend "Revival" by Lloyd-Jones, "Holiness" by J.C. Ryle, "Why Revival Tarries" by Ravenhill or anything by A.W. Tozer.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Substance: Basically a collection related essays on the nature of God and how we get to know It (Yancey, along with most modern Christians, subscribes to the non-corporeal theory). He offers a number of interesting anecdotes and observations, but nothing startlingly original. Comfortable inspirational reading.Style: Casual without being chummy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fabulous. Another Yancey classic.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Philip Yancey audiobooks. I highly recommend any of his books.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of his best, love Yancy’s books. Good for all stages of your Christian walk.