Failure is Not the Problem: Discovering Empowerment for Successful Living by Leary E. Bonnett, 178 pg, perfect bound, ISBN 0-9713277-0-X, $14.95 + $3.00 P&H (NY residents add 8.5% tax) published by Amazing Grace Publications in conjunction with Old Mountain Press. In this helpful and insightful handbook, the author reminds us of this basic, but important lesson by making reference to select individuals that have attained the status of biblical heroes, in addition to other prominent personalities of yesteryears and the current time. To order send check or money order payable to Amazing Grace Publications, 764 East 22nd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11210. E-mail the author.

Other books by this author: Joy Cometh in the Morning Encouragement for Weary Soulis a testament to the fact that when our hopes and aspirations are anchored on Almighty God, that even when confronted by the worst adversity, we are empowered to hold on to hope, even when all rational grounds for holding on have been destroyed.		 Failure is Not the Problem

About the Book

      Commenting on the life of a prominent government official who buckled under the enormous pressures of his responsibilities while serving in the Clinton White House and unfortunately committed suicide, a journalist declared that the official’s one failure in life was the fact that he never really learned how to “fail.” 
       In this helpful and insightful handbook, the author reminds us of this basic, but important lesson by making reference to select individuals that have attained the status of biblical heroes, in addition to other prominent personalities of yesteryears and the current time.
       As we examine the lives of those who are frequently thought of as having attained perfection, we are sobered by the reality that we are “mere mortals with feet of clay.” But by throwing the spotlight on the enduring legacy of these larger-than-life individuals, we are better able to understand how God uses the mistakes of the past to produce miracles for the future living of our days.
       This remarkable treatise addressing the subject of failure, challenges present day followers of the great Galilean, Jesus Christ, to define their discipleship as fellow strugglers with the heroes and heroines of the Bible. On our pilgrim journey on planet earth, we travel in their sandal tracks and as they developed the capacity to comprehend the deeper dimensions of God’s amazing grace by anchoring their future aspirations on His promises, so shall we. For if these individuals were able to accomplish enormous success in the midst of horrific pressures when they were subjected to the crucible of adversity, then there is hope for the rest of us. So given the trials and tribulations that will inevitably befall us along the way, if and when we do fall, we can fall forward. We can fall forward into more faith, more hope and more love, because God will make of our failures a future – even a glorious future.
 

                                          Rev. Dr. Arlee Griffin, Jr., D.Min. 

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