Chad Bailey

Forgiven follower of Jesus Christ, family man, and pastor.

[Chad Bailey @chadallenbailey]

O Lord, how happy should we be
If we would cast our care on Thee,
If we from self would rest;
And feel at heart that One above,
In perfect wisdom, perfect love,
Is working for the best!

- Hudson Taylor

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Failure is not missing a target or falling short of a goal. Failure is succeeding in the wrong things or with the wrong motives. Success looks a lot like faithfulness to the right things with the right motives…regardless of the results.

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The salvation Jesus gives is freedom from the vain chase to find peace and meaning in even the good things in this life. Finding peace with God and meaning in Christ frees us up to savor the good things that we are so quick to make our saviors.

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The Bible is a living document in the same way that God is alive; not that it changes, but that all who behold it are changed.

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Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

Bonhoeffer, Life Together

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If you do not think of biblical community as family, you will not stick around through the awkward, difficult and inconvenient moments for it to become beautiful and life-changing and all that God intended for it to be.

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In the new heavens and new earth preheat temperatures for frozen pizzas will be standardized.

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God is Not on Your Side.

The only thing better than having God on your side is being on His… https://t.co/6ZHbSL3Gn1

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🎶 “Ours the cross, the grave, the skies. Alleluia!”

C. Wesley 1739

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Tucked between our Good Friday and Easter Sunday celebrations is Saturday, a day for waiting in faith!

Saturday https://t.co/QYUv236Z6A

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Celebrating Good Friday can be heavy, even sorrowful, but it is very good!

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[Ryan Bailey @ryanleebailey]

Good Friday Reversals - revealing the beauty of God’s plan of redemption, His intentionality and the deliberateness of His work revealed in His Word, beginning to end.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

One day we will read death’s obituary.

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My favorite worship song is one that I can hear sung by a room full of Christians.

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I don’t trust people who do not fear God.

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I have good news: You are not the active ingredient in your sanctification!

“Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely… He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

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“The heresy of heresies was common sense.” - Orwell, 1984

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Marriage of a man and a woman is the metaphor. Christ and His Church is not the metaphor, but the greater reality.

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“Some may preach the Gospel better, but no one preaches a better Gospel.” - not me

[Chad Bailey @chadallenbailey]

Childish faith and childlike faith are only separated by two letters but could not more different to one another.