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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. Where the world
stresses the importance of success, Bird invites readers to embrace
nine specific failures in the areas of our personal lives, our
relationships, and the church. Why? Because what human wisdom deems
indispensable is so often an impediment to our spiritual growth,
and what it deems insignificant is so often essential to it. 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 readers 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.
Journeys that begin in brokenness rarely follow a straight road to
healing. There are twists and turns-and setbacks-on the path of
repentance. Night Driving tells the story of a pastor and seminary
professor whose moral failures destroyed his marriage and career,
left his life in ruins, and sent him spiraling into a decade-long
struggle against God. Forced to fight the demons of his past in the
cab of the semi-truck he drove at night through the Texas oil
fields, Chad Bird slowly began to limp toward grace and healing.
Drawing on his expertise as an Old Testament scholar, Bird weaves
together his own story, the biblical story, and the stories of
fellow prodigals as he peels back the layers of denial, anger,
addiction, and grief to help readers come face-to-face both with
their own identities and with the God who alone can heal them.
Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our
lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the
kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships
beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the
mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and
places. In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this
is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and
our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of
simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for
God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has
always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in
unattractive, inglorious places. Your God Is Too Glorious reminds
readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world,
it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his
most important work.
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