Getting Over Your Self-Offense
By Erick Sorensen
02/26/26
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Getting Over Your Self-Offense

Surveying Scripture, it is an immense comfort to know we’re not alone in our sinfulness.
Why Christian Tradition: Why We Confess the Faith Together
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
02/25/26

Why Christian Tradition: Why We Confess the Faith Together

Christian faith is never a solitary possession. When the congregation confesses, the old speak for the young, the strong for the weak, and the clear-voiced for the trembling.
The Red Sea Gospel
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
02/24/26

The Red Sea Gospel

Living by faith has never been about what we bring to the table. It has always been, and always will be, about what God does for us when we can’t do anything for ourselves.

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Chad Bird
Chad Bird
11/05/15

Singing the World into Being

As C. S. Lewis, in "The Magician’s Nephew", has Aslan sing the world and all its beautiful intricacies into existence, so the Lion of the tribe of Judah, our Lord Jesus, hymns the heavens and earth into being.
Bonnie Petroschuk
Bonnie Petroschuk
10/26/15

God: Perfect Father or Angry Monster

Is God the perfect loving father for whom we have all longed; or is he an angry, blood-thirsty deity who can only be appeased by the torture and death of his own child?
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
10/13/15

Building Towers of Babel to the Glory of God

Here’s what lurks beneath this seemingly righteous behavior: they wanted to make a name for themselves, these tower-builders.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
08/28/15

The Missing Verse in the Creation Account

In Christ, we become part of the group of eight on the ark. The eight does not increase to nine or ten but swells to contain us all. God recreates us in this saving flood of baptism. We enter the new creation in Christ.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
06/06/15

Sodom and Gomorrah and St. Louis

And there was heard, all round the world, the boom of a pounding hammer. And there resounded, all around the world, the cry of a righteous man who prayed for an unrighteous world.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
06/02/15

The Sermon Written on the Bottom of Your Pastor’s Feet

The soles of the holy feet of God traverse the soil of the holy land of promise.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/24/15

The Bible Story That Goes All Wrong

His reaction was totally wrong. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. When I’d finished confessing, he didn’t start yelling. Out of his mouth came words like forgiveness, grace, Christ, clean slate. He was saying all the wrong things.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
01/30/15

God’s First Words: “Let There Be…Gospel”

First words may be simple, but they affirm a deep, abiding truth.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
01/28/15

Police Dispatched at Midnight to Loud Party at Local Church

You see, officers, this son of our congregation was dead, and has come back to life again; he was lost, and has been found.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
12/15/14

The Dad Who Didn't Have to Be a Dad: Even God Needed a Father

The Son that He is sending into this world will need more than a mother; He needs a father.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
09/19/14

Jesus and the Parable of the Horse's Mouth

When I revisit in my mind the very long list of stupid, mean, selfish things I’ve done, every one of them began with me saying something I shouldn’t have.
Steve Byrnes
Steve Byrnes
09/18/14

Aim for the Bushes: The Power of Stupid

God uses our stupid as well as our best thought out plans and efforts
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