Easter is Yours

The resurrection means your ultimate problem is no longer ahead of you. The grave is not waiting for you. It is behind you.

Daniel Emery Price

04/03/26

Good Friday Reflections on Job

Job needs a savior, and he knows it. And in Jesus, he gets one.

Amy Mantravadi

04/02/26

Maundy Thursday and the New Command

On Maundy Thursday, Christ explicitly gave his disciples the new command from which the day takes its name, for the Latin words novum mandatum are the Vulgate’s translation of “new command.”

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Chad Bird

11/21/12

A few people can endure a Job-like hell, get up, bless God, and face the future stronger than ever. Most of us aren’t such saints. We hobble along, half-walking, half-crawling into the will-be from the what-was.

Chad Bird

11/13/12

A Ninety-One Year Old Newborn

Ingram Robinson was 91 years old and had seen it all—well, almost seen it all. For what his eyes were about to behold, as the sun rose on his ninth decade in this world, was something entirely, and radically, new.

Chad Bird

10/24/12

My Three-Year-Old Daughter's Sermon: Baptism Theology at Its Finest

Sometimes, the best sermons aren’t preached by preachers at all.

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