This article is the first part of a two-part series. The second part will take a look at when pastors abuse their congregations.
09/30/25
The following entries are excerpts from Chad Bird’s new book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of the Psalms (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 311 and 335
09/29/25
Why did the church dedicate a day to St. Michael anyway? Who is he, and what does he do?
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10/13/18
Here is a lament I’ve written especially for victims of hurricanes. May it be for you, for your family, or for your church, a way to put into prayer the anguish of your souls.
09/11/18
When we Christians shoehorn Creedal Christianity into any of these ideological positions we obscure the Gospel mingling it with the Law and strip the Good News of its catholicity.
08/15/18
The Confessions instead look forward and provide a critique of the world and of all my various religions and idolatries.
08/14/18
But when we trust Jesus, then we close our eyes to it all and say, “Heavenly Father, I’m your child.
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07/20/18
Where once we confessed reliance only in ourselves and our own power, now we confess reliance on Christ alone. So, for our relationship before God, our confession of faith matters.
07/19/18
Our meditation listens to the King of Kings when He says; it is finished.
07/06/18
The question at hand was quite short, “Who is Jesus Christ?
07/04/18
Much like Jacob wrestling with God in the desert, we find our intellectual hips continuously put out of joint as we engage the culture around us.
06/28/18
The author, Flannery O'Connor, said, "All I can say about my love of God is, Lord help me in my lack of it."
06/19/18
Hus held that Christ alone grants salvation and that popes do not.
06/18/18
And your life, weary and broken as it is, is hidden by God in Christ—tucked away in God’s enduring and eternally given Word, in Jesus.
06/12/18
God is the God of failures, for He became one for you. There is no failure of ours that is bigger than Jesus’ cross, no sin of ours that can overshadow the cross.
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