TY - BOOK AU - Bird,Chad TI - Upside-down spirituality: the 9 essential failures of a faithful life SN - 9780801075674 (pbk.) AV - BV4501.3 .B4958 2019 U1 - 248.4 B53 2019 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA PB - Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group KW - Christian life N1 - Includes bibliographical references; The believer -- The good news that God doesn't believe in you -- What if i just want to be average? -- Go home, heart, you're drunk -- Family, work, marriage -- Super-moms, uber-dads, and other people who don't exist -- My altar has a diesel engine -- Love will not sustain your marriage -- Church -- Building walls and digging moats around churches? -- Christians don't have a personal relationship with Jesus -- The church of St. Wal-Mart; CAS N2 - Blogger, speaker, and Bible teacher invites readers to embrace the upside-down teachings of Jesus, where failure is success, endings are beginnings, and freedom is found only as we learn to fully submit ER -