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    A Fresh Start with Jesus: Embracing the God of Second Chances
    A Fresh Start with Jesus: Embracing the God of Second Chances
    A Fresh Start with Jesus: Embracing the God of Second Chances
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    A Fresh Start with Jesus: Embracing the God of Second Chances

    By Rebecca Livermore

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    What do King David, Moses, Colonel Sanders, and Dr. Seuss all have in common? They, and many others were magnificent failures prior to and in some cases even after becoming a success. 

    The message is clear: regardless of how much you've failed in the past, you're not beyond hope. 

    Every one of the people mentioned above had multiple "second chances" and second chances are yours for the taking as well, regardless of how many times you've failed, or how far you've fallen. 

    This is especially true for believers in Jesus, who have an opportunity for a fresh start, each and every day. 

    In A Fresh Start with Jesus: Embracing the God of Second Chances, you'll discover:

    • How to turn failure into success
    • God's definition of success
    • How to be reconciled with God and others
    • 9 Secrets to developing good habits
    • A Guaranteed way to transform your life from the inside out
    • An incredible story of forgiveness against all odds
    • and so much more!
    • Regardless of whether you need a fresh start with diet and exercise, business, relationships, or forgiveness of sins, this book is for you. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrdinary Believer
    Release dateNov 30, 2017
    ISBN9781386422358
    A Fresh Start with Jesus: Embracing the God of Second Chances
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    Rebecca Livermore

    Rebecca Livermore is a bestselling author, blogger, and the cofounder of Ordinary Believer, a ministry focused on helping "everyday" Christians apply biblical truths in meaningful ways. She has been married to her husband, Chuck, for more than 30 years and is the mother of two young adults who affectionately nicknamed her, "Hot Rod Mama."

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      A Fresh Start with Jesus - Rebecca Livermore

      Introduction

      About this Book

      I titled this book, A Fresh Start with Jesus: Embracing the God of Second Chances because we all fail on a regular basis. All of us, including me, need a fresh start.

      The good news is, God is for us! He loves us and wants to give us as many do overs as we need. Regardless of whether you’ve sinned to such a degree that you feel like you’re beyond hope, you simply have a hard time sticking to a diet or exercise program, or you’ve suffered from business or relationship failures, you’re not beyond hope.

      God delights in you. He loves you. He wants to help you. This book shows you how.

      In it you’ll discover:

      How to turn failure into success

      God's definition of success

      How to be reconciled with God and others

      9 secrets to developing good habits

      A guaranteed way to transform your life from the inside out

      An incredible story of forgiveness against all odds

      And so much more!

      This Book is For You If:

      The entire line of Ordinary Believer books is written for ordinary believers. Our books are practical in nature and get to the heart of what it means to live the Christian life. While ministry professionals who have advanced theological degrees may well enjoy and benefit from our books, they were written by, and for, laity – Christians who love Jesus and the Bible, but may or may not have attended seminary, and probably aren’t fluent in Greek or Hebrew.

      If that describes you, you’ll likely benefit from our books, as well as the content published on our website, OrdinaryBeliever.

      About the Author (an Ordinary Believer)

      Rebecca Livermore has been a freelance writer since 1993. She started off writing for Christian publications such as Discipleship Journal and Pray! Magazine, as well as many homeschool publications. In 2006, she shifted her writing focus to the Web, and in June of 2014 released her first Kindle book.

      Her initial Kindle books focused on business and personal development topics. The middle of 2015 she felt God stirring her heart to return to her Christian writing roots. As she wrote her first Ordinary Believer Devotional, she felt like she was returning to her true calling as a writer, and while she may continue to write in a variety of genres, you can expect to see many other Christian titles among her works.

      Rebecca and her husband, Chuck, founded Ordinary Believer in August 2015. They came up with the name because they are, indeed, ordinary believers. They don’t have advanced theological degrees, but simply love Jesus and the Bible. The key message of Ordinary Believer is that every believer is qualified to share the love of Jesus with others. While we each have faults and are, well, ordinary, we serve an extraordinary God that can take our sometimes messy lives and feeble attempts to serve Him, and turn them into something beautiful.

      SECTION 1:

      WE ALL FAIL

      One of the biggest lies that we believe is that somehow, we’re more defective than others. It’s easy to look at others and think that they have it more together than we do and that if they only knew how messed up we are, they’d be shocked.

      The problem is that we often only see a bright and shiny version of other people’s lives, but are well aware of our own shortcomings. After all, we’re always there when we mess up.

      The good news is that you’re not alone in your failure. In this section, I’ll show that everyone fails. Most of the people that we look up to have had more failure than success, and yet somehow in spite of that, eventually found success.

      Even better news is that not all failure is sin and no failure is so great that it’s unfixable.

      With that good news in mind, let’s go ahead and dive in. 

      Chapter 1: Not all Failure is Sin

      While this book is faith-based, and certainly deals with failure that fits into the sin category, I want to make it clear that not all failure is sin. Some failure just is. For example, failures can be based on a mistake or a series of mistakes we make, and at other times, failure is truly due to circumstances beyond our control. In this chapter, we’ll dig into the difference between these, and how to best respond to them.

      Sinful Failure

      Sinful failure is direct disobedience to God and his Word, the Bible.

      While I don’t want anyone to come under condemnation by the words I’m about to write, I need to be honest that some of the things in your life that you may justify as, just the way I am actually fit into the sin category.

      I’ll give a personal example. Ever since my dad was killed in a car accident, I’ve been very nervous on the road, or when someone I love (particularly my children) is driving.

      Many times I’ve felt all tied up in knots over this particular thing and have even missed out on events that I’d like to attend, due to this fear.

      Some people would say that such fear is normal under the circumstances, but consider the following verse:

      Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done (Philippians 4:6, NLT).

      In this Scripture, we have a direct command not to worry, along with specific instructions for what to do instead. Therefore, when I slip into worry and don’t immediately shift to praying about the concern, my behavior is sinful.

      Naturally, there are other types of failures that most of us think of as big sins. You know, things like sexual sin, theft, or breaking any of the Ten Commandments.

      The bottom line definition of sin is disobedience to God. If you know to do something, either because it’s directly commanded in the Bible or because God’s spoken to you about it in a clear way, and you deliberately choose to disobey, that disobedience is sin.

      How to Deal with Sinful Failure

      If it’s a particularly tough sin issue, you may need to

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