You’re permitted to call on “Our Father, who art in heaven” at all hours of the day and night with whatever you like.
Here is the true story, the one worth remembering: You are a gift.
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. 32, 52.

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So long as we entrust death to Jesus, new life is ours. He has lunch ready and he is waiting for us in the power of his resurrection.
Jesus is a heroic warrior that not even hell can defeat.
Our scars are a reminder that salvation is all gift.
We want to be kind, gentle, and cheerful to others, but we’ve got to protect ourselves from getting hurt.
Forgiveness, not love, can restore a relationship that’s top-heavy with negative emotions.
We don’t need to make forgiveness, life, and salvation a hard sell.
Rather than validate our selfish, self-serving choices, he justifies us by giving us new life and baptizing us into his death and resurrection.
What do we say when a Christian admits the church has driven them to atheism? And they don't mean ideologically.
God is the only one who decides what we receive, when, and how it’s given to us.
Jesus doesn’t talk about God’s love for us; he embodies it.
We confuse our success and failures with God’s judgment of us.
We are so free as Christians that we don't even have to compare ourselves to other Christians.