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Limping with God
Jacob & The Old Testament Guide to Messy DiscipleshipBy Chad Bird, Chad BirdNarrated by Chad BirdLength7h 34m
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When we look to the Bible for role models in our daily discipleship, we tend to think of Noah's obedience and David's bravery.
Limping With God: Jacob and the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship
posits that we can also look to Jacob.
Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple, though we can learn a lot from his journey.
He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing.
But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow Jesus.
In Jacob's life we see our lives, our struggles, our failures, and most especially the God who loves us and chooses us as his own. As we explore his bio, from his wrangling in the womb with Esau to his death as an old man in Egypt, we will learn more about ourselves and the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah.
From the author: "I have entitled this book Limping With God instead of Walking With God or Running With God, not because there would be anything wrong with those metaphors, but because, as Jacob limped away from his famous wrestling match with God, so we all get by on bum hips and bad knees. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord. Finally, at our most mature, our eyes are opened to realize that we've never run or walked or even limped a single day of our lives.
"We've been on Christ's shoulders the entire time."
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (873)
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length7 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byChad Bird
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 19, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
20Chaptereighteen
2Foreword
21Chapternineteen
3Chapterone
22Chaptertwenty
4Chaptertwo
23Chaptertwentyone
5Chapterthree
24Chaptertwentytwo
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6Chapterfour
25Chaptertwentythree
7Chapterfive
26Chaptertwentyfour
8Chaptersix
27Chaptertwentyfive
9Chapterseven
28Chaptertwentysix
10Chaptereight
29Chaptertwentyseven
11Chapternine
30Chaptertwentyeight
12Chapterten
31Chaptertwentynine
13Chaptereleven
32Chapterthirty
14Chaptertwelve
33Chapterthirtyone
15Chapterthirteen
34Chapterthirtytwo
16Chapterfourteen
35Chapterthirtythree
17Chapterfifteen
36Chapterthirtyfour
18Chaptersixteen
37Afterword
19Chapterseventeen
38Outro
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