Few of us are totally blind or living in the dark. Our problems are much more a result of worldly distortions that lead us down destructive paths to ungodly destinations. Reframe is a very insightful and powerful book that clarifies the true truth and how we can change our lives by changing the way we view God and our circumstances.
STEVE ARTERBURN
Bestselling author and host of New Life Radio
This beautiful, honest, and vulnerable book has a way of stripping away your weary dogmas and legalistic lies, your fear-filled oughts and shoulds, and reminding you of Gods amazing love and why you surrendered your life to Him. It was liberating, all over again. Read it. Weep if you must, want to, or need to. But read it.
JO SAXTON
Speaker and author, chair of 3DMovements, and co-pastor of Mission Point Church
Reframe lays it out there for Christians to reconsider the assumptions they may be making about God, faith, the Bible, and themselves. Its very clear and insightful, and tailor-made for anyone who senses they are missing something significant in life... but cant quite place what it is. Reframe reveals the spaces between Christian culture and the relationship with God that we have always been promised but rarely experience.
PASTOR BRAD MATHIAS
President of Bema Media iShine, pastor of Four Winds Anglican Mission, and author of Road Trip to Redemption
Reframe is Brian Hardins compelling challenge to rethink what we know about God and how we relate to Him. Too many people live with a limited, small-minded view of God and end up living a limited life. Brian wants to change that. God has dreamed for you a bigger life, a more significant life. Hardin insists that you not settle for less and invites you to restart your story and live the exhilarating, bold life God has waiting for you. If your relationship with God has turned stale and anemic, then you must read Reframe. Hardin says its time to start over! Because right now, today, you can restart a completely new relationship with God.
PALMER CHINCHEN, PHD
Speaker, cultural artist, and author of Barefoot Tribe: Take OffYour ShoesandDare to Live the Exhilarating Life and True Religion: Taking Pieces of Heaven to Places of Hell on Earth
Brian Hardin has a way of asking the hard questions that you just cant shake. Like a modern-day mystic, his writing hits you diagonally and haunts you. In Reframe, Brian seeks to bring the reader to a place of spiritual awakening. I highly recommend this read to anyone who feels dead... as most of us do, most of the time. I wept throughout reading it, and as I did, I sensed a strange warmth arising from within.
FR. CHRIS SORENSEN
Abbot of Mission Chattanooga
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Reframe: From the God Weve Made to God with Us
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hardin, Brian, date.
Reframe : from the God weve made ... to God with us / Brian Hardin.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-63146-447-8
1. Spirituality Christianity. 2. Spiritual life Christianity. I. Title.
BV4501.3.H3653 2015
248.4 dc23 2015021836
ISBN 978-1-63146-448-5 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-63146-449-2 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-63146-450-8 (Apple)
ISBN 978-1-63146-448-5 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-63146-449-2 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-63146-450-8 (Apple)
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For Rosalie Ann Hardin
When I began to flesh out this book, I planned to write of things I thought had seasoned in my life and become a part of who I am. I wanted to transfer a few hard-won truths onto paper and offer them. Little did I know...
After a few months of writing, in between long stretches of a strenuous speaking schedule, I felt as if I was writing words that werent going to connect the dots to anything. I was discouraged. Three and a half chapters into Reframe I threw most of it out and started over. For a writer, throwing away thousands of words and dozens of hours of work leaves a bit of a sigh and a deflated, almost nauseous feeling. But I also knew that there was more to this story. Something profound was taking shape inside me.
What I didnt know when I began to write again was that it was going to challenge my own faith to the core and force me to reframe everything I thought I knew about God.
For many, including myself for so many years, having a relationship with God has become synonymous with believing in God. But is this really all there is to it? I believe in a lot of people that Im not in a relationship with and, for that matter, have never even met. Im sure the same is true for you. It would seem that a relationship is more than just belief; unpacking what its actually shaped like can be a bit of a mystery. Its not talked about that much its more assumed. But maybe it shouldnt be.