The Bible is an ongoing narrative of God’s capacity and desire to do everything that his people need, only for people to keep wanting to do what they can’t achieve in his place. From Chad Bird: Doing nothing is the hardest thing for us to do. we’d rather talk nonstop for hours than be utterly …
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 …
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 …
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