Limping with God: Jacob & the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship by Chad Bird

Limping with God: Jacob & the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship
Chad Bird
Page: 266
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9781948969833
Publisher: New Reformation Publications
Limping with God: Jacob & the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship

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Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple. 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 his 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.﻿

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