Her startup had great potential, but when the recession came it took her business down with it.

He had studied long and hard, but when his grade was posted it had been all for naught.

They had promised to love and cherish one another forever, but a dozen years and hundreds of arguments later a judge declared they were no longer husband and wife.

Failure.  We’ve all known it.  It’s part of being human.  Who among us doesn’t cringe at the memory of a failed friendship, plan, or project?  And while our failures may not have been as devastating as the entrepreneur’s, student’s, or married couple’s, they still stung.

The Bible is full of people who failed.  In fact, it starts with the failure of Adam and Eve and continues from one generation to the next.  And failure didn’t stop with the co…