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Description edit
Author Philip Yancey asks the question How does a relationship with God work? and answers it with an investigation that turns up surprising and satisfying answers about life and communication with an invisible God.
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Characters/People edit
- Paul: Add a description of this character.
- David
- John Donne
- Peter
- Betsy
- Ciszek
- Augustine
- Jeremiah
- Abraham
- Janet
- Adam
- Thomas Merton
- Tom
- Jacob
- C. S. Lewis
- Frederick Buechner
- Daniel
- Martha
- Billy Graham
- Tournier
- Reiner
- Moltmann
- Mother Teresa
- Pierre
- Joe
- Cowper
- Carolyn
- Dr. Brand
- Dorothy Sayers
- Arun
- Bondi
- Isaac
- Mandela
First Sentence edit
ONE YEAR MY WIFE and I visited Peru, the country where Janet spent her childhood.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Part One--Thirst: Our Longing for God
1. Born Again Breech
2. Thirsting at the Fountainside
Part Two--Faith: When God Seems Absent, Indifferent, or Even Hostile
3. Room for Doubt
4. Faith Under Fire
5. Two-Handed Faith
6. Living in Faith
7. Mastery of the Ordinary
Part Three--God: Contact with the Invisible
8. Knowing God, or Anyone Else
9. Personality Profile
10. In the Name of the Father
11. Rosetta Stone
12. The Go-Between
Part Four--Union: A Partnership of Unequals
13. Makeover
14. Out of Control
15. Passion and the Desert
16. Spiritual Amnesia
Part Five--Growth: Stages Along the Way
17. Child
18. Adult
19. Parent
Part Six--Restoration: The Relationship's End
20. Paradise Lost
21. God's Irony
22. An Arranged Marriage
23. The Fruit of Friday's Toil
Notes
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Yancey (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0310235316
Page Count: 301
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0310235316
Page Count: 301
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: BV4501.2 .Y36 2000
- Dewey: 248
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