Question 1: How did you manage your disappointment with God when your father wasn't healed?

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An Interview with Philip Yancey

We read in the Bible that God is good, loving, and faithful; yet we live in a world where horrible pain exists, and God seems anything but good, loving, and faithful. It's one of life's greatest conflicts. How do we live peacefully with this great tension? Author, speaker, as well as comforter to those who suffer is Philip Yancey; one who sheds incredible wisdom and insight on this conflict. If you have ever wondered "Why?" about life and suffering, you cannot miss this interview.

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From world terrorism and natural disasters to personal loss and unexplained pain, we are all haunted at some point by the question "Why? Why me . . . why this?" Or maybe your question today is "Where was God when . . . ?" What part of life has been most difficult for you? Have you become stuck or angry?

Perhaps someone in the church has been the source of your pain. You are not alone, nor are you wrong for searching. You are in good company, my friend—Jesus Christ experienced the greatest mistreatment and judgment, and He offers us a way through life's struggles. But we can't do it alone.

If you're hurting, PLEASE step onto the healing path and connect with Insight for Living Ministries. For Christians, transforming change in this world begins when we choose to serve and love one another. Today is the day your life can change by one phone call, letter, e-mail. What's holding you back?

Join the conversation on our blog at www.reframingministries.com.

About Philip Yancey

From his earliest memories, Philip Yancey began wrestling with faith and belief in Jesus Christ in the midst of pain and suffering. He began work in Chicago as a journalist, editing the Campus Life youth magazine some 20 years ago. Currently he has been awarded 13 Gold Medallion Awards from Christian publishers and booksellers. He currently has more than 15 million books in print, published in 35 languages worldwide. Philip lives with his wife Janet in the foothills of Colorado. Philip enjoys skiing, mountain climbing and biking, golf, international travel, nature, jogging, theology, reading, and classical music.

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About Philip Yancey

Blog: philipyancey.com

Books: philipyancey.com/books

Personal Recommendations for Reading, by Philip Yancey

Most Influential Books:

Augustine: Confessions

Frederick Buechner: Telling the Truth

Superior Books in Style and Christian Content:

Frederick Buechner: Telling the Truth; The Hungering Dark; The Magnificent Defeat; The Alphabet of Grace; Now and Then; The Sacred Journey; Peculiar Treasures; Wishful Thinking; The Book of Bebb; The Final Beast; Godric

Christian Essayists with Style:

G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy; St. Francis of Assisi; St. Thomas Aquinas; The Man Who Was Thursday; The Everlasting Man

C.S. Lewis: A Grief Observed; The Weight of Glory; The Four Loves

Dorothy Sayers: The Mind of the Maker; Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World

George MacDonald: Life Essential

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