… 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 …
When God brings humans into relationship with himself he makes us part of a larger body. The danger is when being part of larger body becomes a substitute for a replacement for the relationship with God. That’s when we need to hear his call to come back to him. From Chad Bird: All of Israel’s …
Chad Bird writes about forgiveness, observing that forgiving others is not something we do for our own therapeutic benefit. Followers of Jesus forgive because we have to pass on the forgiveness that has been given to us. From Bird’s post: What does it mean to forgive? For the Christian, it means simply this: to see …
Chad Bird contends that God does not reveal himself on the mountaintops of life as consistently as he is found in the valleys. He makes reference to what he describes as “one of the most in-American verses in the Bible,” truthfully one of the most counter-cultural verses of our age. If I could rewind my …
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