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Jim Essian is the author of Jesus For You: He Became Like You So You Could Become Like Him and Like Father, Like Sons. Jim planted The Paradox Church in 2011 and serves as Lead Pastor. The Paradox is an Acts 29 Network church in Downtown Fort Worth, TX. Jim played eight years of professional baseball in the Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Detroit Tigers organizations, prior to planting a church. Jim and his wife, Heather, have three girls, Harper, Hollis, and Hadden.

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3 Ways 2024 Can Be Better

Medical science and secular sociologists all realize that the American pace of life isn’t working; in fact, it’s detrimental. Sleep scientists are telling us there’s a sleep epidemic in the West. Adam Grant and Cal Newport, and other vocational sociologists, tell us our hurried pace at work is less effective, and more hours don’t equal more performance. Physical trainers tell us our body needs to

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"Concise and biblically. I really enjoyed it and think it will encourage my church as we navigate a season of growth and look to what God has for us in the future. The exegesis was solid and the illustrations were especially clever and helpful."
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“We are all impatient as long as we are imperfect. It is the mark of the child that he is in a violent hurry where men are steady.”
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