https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3031 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:08:17 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3031 Dr. Murray, I appreciate the post and wonder if you would be kind enough to explain what you mean by “fail well”. I understand that we can learn much from failure and that failure is essential to a life of repentance and humility, but the term “fail well” escapes me. Sorry for the thick skull. Thanks.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3030 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:41:40 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3030 Wow. So true. Followed the link from Challies.com and am glad I did. Isn’t the point of failure, under God’s sovereign hand, to drive us back again and again to the cross, to Christ? Shouldn’t we who preach the Gospel week in and week out, be of all men most keenly aware of the power of the Gospel, the living necessity of God’s mercy and daily grace in every moment of every day of our lives? Is it failure that echoes to us God’s Word to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you”? Still learning this, but if this is so then may Christ succeed through my daily failures.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3029 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:24:54 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3029 Honestly, you could never imagine the power of just reading this post – an encouragement to my soul as I struggle through a tough time planting a church. This brought me back to the stark reality we see throughout the pages of the Bible. The accounts of both instant and enduring success are hard to find. Most often there’s a grueling process up-front and only when we’ve been stripped can truly bring glory to the One to whom it’s due.This post is going in the “special binder” by the bedside I keep of things I reflect on from time to time. A refreshing spring in the desert.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3028 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:23:23 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3028 Outstanding post! Thank you for these encouraging words. I have thought that failure had set up camp in my yard and lurked about my door for most of my life. This post sheds some light on my sense of this. I’m going to link to this post on my blog. I hope you don’t mind.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3027 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:49:55 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3027 Professor Murray…Thanks for a great reminder that faithfulness, not success, is the goal for the Christian and, especially, the pastor. How easy it is, even when we are aware of the temptation, to allow all kinds of things to serve as functional gods for us instead of being content with failure before men if only God approves of our work.Blessings,Matt

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3026 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:48:53 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/04/05/failure-the-last-taboo/#comment-3026 It took me only two years, perhaps less. Crash!

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