Finding God in Unexpected Places

Sep 3, 2008 - comments: 1

Today’s guest has had to look beyond church walls in order to find God. Growing up in a church that he writes “vaccinated him against spiritual truth;” he has written often and eloquently of his journey toward the God of the Bible. Philip Yancey is editor-at-large for Christianity Today and a best-selling author.

His book, Finding God in Unexpected Places, is a series of essays that challenge his readers to look through the cracks in their lives to see the hand and heart of God drawing us closer to Him. When Philip is with us, we can rest assured we will be challenged to rethink what it means to be a follower of Christ.

Philip’s writings challenge us to simply see the world and the traces of God’s presence through his journalist eyes. It may be in a Chicago health club, at a meeting of Amnesty International, on a weekend retreat with a group of Youth for Christ volunteers, or at Ground Zero in New York City, but Philip always manages to opens our eyes to see God in these, the most unexpected of places.

To many it seems that today more than ever before, we are surrounded by more danger than safety and more division than unity in our world. With the flip of a television switch or the turn of a page, we see examples of fear and destruction. Amidst it all, however there is hope and a future assured by our Creator.

topic(s): Faith, Bible, Citizenship, War

1 comments

1 On Dec 16th, 2008, at 11:20pm, Ben wrote:

God is most easy to find if you look. He is within us first the foundation of our inner self. Once we find him in us we see him in all things great and small. God is not in the sky or in the ocean but within us first then in all things we come in contact with. If God is not within us first then he is no where to be found.

Ben,

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