Limping with God: Jacob & the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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.
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- Explores Jacob’s namesake of the Old Testament community of God.
- Shows the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah.
- Discovers that the longer we follow him, the more we lean on our Lord.
- Title: Limping with God: Jacob & the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship
- Author: Chad Bird
- Publisher: 1517 Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 251
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Jacob (Biblical patriarch); Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Christian life › Biblical teaching; God (Christianity) › Mercy
- ISBNs: 9781948969826, 9781948969840, 1948969823, 194896984X
- Resource ID: LLS:LIMPINGWITHGOD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-07-06T17:29:44Z
Chad Bird has served as a pastor in the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, as assistant professor of Hebrew and exegetical theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and as a guest lecturer at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Novosibirsk, Siberia. He has contributed articles to the Lutheran Witness, Gottesdienst, Concordia Journal, Concordia Theological Quarterly, Modern Reformation, Concordia Pulpit Resources, Logia, Higher Things, and The Federalist. He is the author of The Infant Priest, Christ Alone, and Night Driving. In addition to hosting chadbird.com, he is a regular contributor to Christ Hold Fast (christholdfast.org) and 1517legacy.com. He lives in Texas.
Reviews
1 rating
Glenn Crouch
11/3/2023
This is a good read, and a fascinating journey through Jacob’s life. The Author has a down-to-earth approach to the Patriarch whilst always keeping Jesus Christ firmly in focus. He also opens up about his own life and faith journey, which is done well and adds to the points he is making. This is the sort of book that encourages you to get into the Old Testament, and gives a more realistic and Scriptural view to a character we often only recall from Sunday School stories. The 30+ chapters also work well as Bible Studies or as Devotions. I took one of them and gave to our women’s fellowship to use as a devotional study, and they really enjoyed it. Each chapter does have useful discussion questions. Whilst well indexed, I would have appreciated a “For Further Reading” section. I would highly recommend this to all my fellow Christians.