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Sometimes it's as if the life we've been seeking has managed to elude us. We wake up and ask, "Is this what life is all about?" Scripture tells us the truth: life is hidden — not always obvious, but very much real.
This book shares one pastor's story of walking through disappointment and the principles of hope he discovered along the way.
The Hidden Life is organized around four aspects of God's Great GIFT to us:
- G — Grace — God's power and desire to do good to you, which is part of God's character and undiluted by anything you do
- I — Identity — Discovering the amazing transformative power of the Gospel
- F — Faith — Learning to trust God in the seasons when life feels elusive
- T — Training — Practical principles for overcoming deception with God's truth
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David Megill
David Megill is a pastor, conference speaker, and writer with a story that spans three continents. He leads Focus Church and has spent decades helping people discover that they matter to God through books that bring encouragement, hope, and laughter to the journey of faith.
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Learn moreDave has authored a great resource for the church. I could see this book being used in small group disciple making. His ability to blend vulnerability, wisdom and truth together along with practically is perfect for anyone seeking to grow more in their spiritual lives. Purchase multiple copies and shares them with friends, pastors or anyone seeking more out of this life! Use this book as a compass to point people to the grace of Jesus! I have highlights on almost every page of the book!
I had the privilege of hearing Pastor Megill speak recently, so I quickly ordered this book for my Kindle.
The author's style is personal, informal. While this is inviting and makes for easy reading, at times it can get a bit tedious and repetitive. Despite the book's subtitle, "Finding Out Why You Matter", this book is not going to give you the answer to "What am I here for?" or "Why did God create me?" Rather, it's a book about God's radical, outrageous grace. It's about believers discovering their true identity, who they have become if they have accepted God's gift of salvation, destroying the "sinner saved by grace" trope pretty convincingly. It's about living by faith, not by a set of rules.
This book is autobiographical, detailing the author's own personal journey of discovery. I like the honesty with which the author describes this journey. No formulas, no checklists, just raw, messy life full of highs and lows, victories and defeats...and God's grace through it all.
I recommend this for all Christians who find themselves in a place of discouragement, who have tried the formulas and the checklists and who have searched high and low for the secret to living the Christian life. The answer is that there is no secret, there is only a loving God. In the author's own words:
"I may grow weary but I know where to find rest. I may grow fearful but I know where to find safety."
I appreciate David Megill's honesty and openness. Everyone who knows God, is seeking to know God, or is questioning God can benefit from reading this book. It's a quick read but packed full of nuggets!
David Megill has written great book on Christian identity. At about 100 pages it is readable for everyone. It is interesting, insightful, and Biblically accurate. Megill's honesty about his own life and the application of what he teaches is perhaps the book's most powerful dimension. He is walking the road he describes for us.
I recently finished reading The Hidden Life: Finding Out Why You Matter, by David Megill. I found it to be one the most encouraging, uplifting, and doctrinally correct books I've ever read. I am most thankful to David for writing this book.
As another commentator wrote, David has a knack for taking deep theological truths of grace and faith and explaining them in story form, thereby making truth sweet and easy to chew. I am perfectly happy reading systematic theology, but the way David explains the doctrines of grace and faith are definitely more palatable. I also appreciate his use of the word "paradox" to explain things like having to die to self in order to have life in Christ. Here, too, he makes it easy to understand these seemingly contradictory truths of the Christian faith.
The last two chapters were bittersweet. The sheer brutal honesty of it all left me sad but yet hopeful at the same time. Calvin taught that God will never allow His sons and daughters to be fully satisfied with this life lest we cease to long for Him and for the next life. He said that we should live our life "with one foot raised" so as to be ready to leave at any moment. I find that to be a good way to live--one foot down, the other raised; Unlike David, I can't juggle even one ball, but I can do the foot thing. I believe that what David wrote, especially at the end, is consistent with what Calvin wrote.
The book reaffirmed my hope in God, hope that my problems are not what life is about but that only in Christ can we find true meaning in this life--love, comfort, joy... Thank you so much, David, for writing it; I'm a better man for reading it. I will certainly recommend it to everyone.