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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11/28/22
For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
11/22/22
A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.
11/18/22
Who is God really? He is offensive, anarchic by the world’s standards, and far too gracious to people who don’t deserve his time or attention.
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11/12/22
The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
11/03/22
We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
10/30/22
The name of God invites us on a journey to see how God will remain present with his people, listen to their cries for salvation, know their sufferings in such an intimate way so as to incarnate them in Christ.
10/30/22
The words of Jesus shine with a graceful brilliance among the broken fragments of this world.
10/26/22
The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.
10/24/22
Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
10/23/22
The phrase “works of the law” has an antithesis when it comes to righteousness—faith. What keeping the Law could not do, the gift of faith does.
10/23/22
To preach Christ and Him crucified is to reveal again the revealed God who saves.
10/16/22
This parable does its surprising work of turning everything upside-down, as Christ’s Kingdom always does.
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