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Yawning at Tigers: You Can't Tame God, So Stop Trying is unavailable, but you can change that!

“A needed corrective to self-indulgent Christianity.” Philip Yancey “A stirring challenge.” Lee Strobel “A strong antidote against a domesticated God.” Matthew Lee Anderson When was the last time you were overawed by God’s majesty? Have you ever stood in stunned silence at his holiness and power? In our shallow, self-centered age, things like truth and reverence might seem outdated, lost. Yet...

We ask God to keep us safe, not realizing that it is from him we most need protecting. Even when we see evidence of God in our midst, when we glimpse his holiness, we’re more likely to yawn than yell. Somehow we’ve succeeded in making the strange ordinary. We walk by tigers without looking twice. Why are we so anesthetized? What’s behind our lack of reverence, fear, and awe? I think it’s simple. We’ve forgotten how big God is. DANGEROUS PRESENCE I remember having this point presented in dramatic
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