Welcome to the blog for your journey based on the book Miles Past Normal (Wipf and Stock, Fall 2010) by Tim Cooper.
At each turn in life we are bombarded with the idea of normal. I’m quite sure that normal is the last thing I want to become in this journey. Normal finds a job he hates so it can pay for things he doesn’t need while he wishes he was doing something else. Normal believes that creativity, imagination, innovation, and dreaming should cease after the fifth grade. Normal does things the way she does them because that is how everyone has always done them. Normal goes to church for an hour on Sundays but doesn’t get carried away or allow her faith to truly intersect her life any other time of the week.
The end result is that there is little difference between the followers of Jesus and those that have never met him. Jesus did not die so that we could be normal. He did not suffer through torture, exhaustion, and cruelty on the cross so that our lives would look just like everyone else. I don’t want to be normal.
What if you could unlock the secrets to an abnormal life? What if God’s design for your life is so much more than the success standards of this world? What if there is a life up ahead that could be meaningful, adventurous, and most of all, matter for eternity? What if God is not done altering the course of history and you’re his next move? What if you could discover a life of meaning, purpose, and eternal significance? This is your invitation to travel miles past normal.
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June 2, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Chucl Lees
Reserve a copy for me!! If it reads like your blogs it will be terrific. If it reads like the example you have set forth in your life it will be better than great!! Congratulations, Tim!
August 24, 2010 at 10:55 am
Debbie Back
Your mother told me about your book. I can’t wait to go out and buy it. It will be a great read. Your blogs are inspiring. I can almost hear you saying it to the congregation.