Jesus is not a life coach. He’s not providing an example to follow, or teaching techniques to get us through the day or tough situations. What he invites us to do is die with him. From Chad Bird: Likewise, to take up our cross daily doesn’t mean to shoulder our personal cares and concerns. Jesus …
It’s because Jesus knows us completely that he knows how completely we need to be saved. And that’s how he reveals the gracious magnitude of God’s love. From Chad Bird: Jesus knows good and well that there’s nothing inside us worth believing in. In fact, everything inside us looks absolutely untrustworthy. If anything, when the …
Tomorrow Christians will gather and be reminded yet again that we are unlearning non-dependence and learning dependence on Jesus. Christian maturity is not learning how to develop our own strength so we need Jesus less, it is increasing in our knowledge of our inability to stand anywhere but in Jesus’ strength. From Chad Bird: The …
… true success is found in the failure to find meaning and purpose in something we do, accomplish, build. Rather, our identity, our meaning and purpose, is not something we work for but receive from the hand of our Father. Chad Bird, Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life, as quoted at …
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