Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.
To confess Christ crucified and risen as the only hope in a world that has lost its mind to wickedness and rage.
The following entries are excerpts from Chad Bird’s upcoming book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of the Psalms (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 191-192.

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Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.
We don’t need another brand. We need a people who remember who they are. And that’s us, Gen-X.
MacArthur’s courage to speak Scripture’s truth, no matter the audience, should be commended.
“The Church exists to tell anyone and everyone who knocks on her door wondering what’s inside: Come and see” (pg. 58). Such reminders make The Church a worthwhile read.
This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.
Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
Is modern Israel the heir of the promises and covenant God made with ancient Israel?
This is the first installment in the 1517 articles series, “What Makes a Saint?”
Do it again, God,” rings the psalmist’s appeal.
The Psalm now is this: as Christ suffered and then was exalted, so we are also in him.
This is the first installment in our Lenten series, Through the Tombs of the Kings, where Steve Kruschel explores God’s faithfulness to Judah’s kings—and to us—through life, death, and the burial of his Son.
By the end of this prayer of wrestling, David finally has the strength to claim victory over his lying enemies.