Nothing good happens when you get ahead of God and take matters into your own hands.
09/11/25
To confess Christ crucified and risen as the only hope in a world that has lost its mind to wickedness and rage.
09/10/25
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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09/28/18
A part of our series on Luther's, Heidelberg Disputation.
09/27/18
He begins with Jesus and ends with Jesus. He is not going to try to complete what Jesus starts.
09/25/18
The Christian sees himself or herself as one just as guilty as the rest of the world. But we see ourselves not just as what’s wrong with the world, but in the One by whom the world has been redeemed.
09/25/18
Would you go to the church on the corner knowing that the pastor is an ex-con?
09/25/18
We try believing in more abstract concepts: justice, happiness, and self-improvement, only to find that we can never truly grasp which standards should be accepted and which should be rejected.
09/20/18
Jesus cuts right to the chase when it comes to the evil one. He calls the devil “a liar and the father of lies,”
09/20/18
Then, Jesus our Groom, with His nail-scarred hands takes our hands and walks out with us from that ultimate courtroom, and into eternity – His eternity – and a never-ending wedding feast.
09/18/18
Can there be joy in obedience? That depends on if obedience if a free choice or the result of threats.
09/18/18
Jesus opened our ears and mouth when He baptizes us. Jesus put His fingers into our ears, speaks to us, and washes our sins away.
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09/17/18
My biggest criticism of Peterson’s mantra is that it seems to be exclusively a message of Law in a world in desperate need of grace.
09/14/18
For the past twenty years that I've been a Christian, I've not found any evidence in my reading of Judges 13-16 that qualifies Samson for the "book of faith" (Hebrews 11).
09/13/18
Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
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