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Losers Like Us: Redefining Discipleship after Epic Failure is unavailable, but you can change that!

In 2008, after seven years of preparation, Daniel Hochhalter permanently failed his PhD, leaving him with no refunds, no transferable credits, no recourse to appeal or try again, and no hope of gaining the qualifications needed for his desired career. Then he lost his job. Devastated and in crisis, with no Plan B and no clue how to redeem his future, he looked to the twelve disciples and...

He has only three main “scenes” in Scripture—bringing Peter to Jesus, bringing the boy with the loaves and fishes to Jesus, and bringing some Greeks to Jesus—but in each case, he is introducing someone to Jesus. Before we look at the first scene, it should be noted that the Gospels give different accounts of how Andrew and Peter started following Jesus. In Matthew 4:18 and Mark 1:16, Jesus calls them together, while they are fishing. But the gospel of John implies that they had met him before then: