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Upside-Down Spirituality
- The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life
- By: Chad Bird
- Narrated by: Brandon Batchelar
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38
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In our age when the church can too often seem like a poor copy of the world, Chad Bird challenges us to reclaim the astounding originality of our ancient, backward faith. With compelling examples from the Bible and today, Bird paints an enticing picture of the counterintuitive, countercultural life that God wants for us. He helps listeners delight in all of the ways that Jesus turned the world upside down, allowing us to experience true freedom, not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.
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Great messages for today
- By Fred M on 07-24-22
- Upside-Down Spirituality
- The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life
- By: Chad Bird
- Narrated by: Brandon Batchelar
This book changed my life.
Reviewed: 11-16-22
Are you worried about failing? Are you anxious of becoming less than what you aspired to be? Does the notion of settling for something other that what you’ve planned and plotted for your life could potentially be, frighten you?
Good. That’s where God wants you to be.
This book speaks of the unabashed failures each of us has or will experience in our everyday lives. The lyric, “I am weak, and He is strong” is a sore understatement as you turn these pages. This book is for the workaholic overachiever, the devoted private school soccer mom, the lone-ranger Christian, the mega-church congregate. This book is for everyone on the margins and all of those in between.
This book made me reevaluate my perceptions on how Jesus views and interacts with his beloved. Christ is waiting on the sidelines of our lives. He is anticipating us to swan dive in our self-righteousness, and belly flop as our flesh takes a beating.
And when that happens, he is waiting for us to call on him. His undying love will always be there to nurture us from the depths of our despair and bring us back to what really matters, Him.
Once you start this book you will not put it down.
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