Christianity isn’t simply a tool to fix social, spiritual, or economic problems. Its claims are much larger, touching upon truth itself and therefore all things and all people.
Christianity does not ultimately rest on the assertion that God delivered a perfectly dictated text whose divine origin can be demonstrated by claims of flawless transmission.
I pray my children see God’s faithfulness not in the riches of this world, but in the riches of grace through Christ Jesus.

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The Lord has an answer to your tears, your trouble, your weariness, your enemies, your grief, your shame, your sin.
Show me a sinner, and I’ll write you a story of a God who saves them.
To preach Christ and him crucified is to keep the message simple and accessible.
The story of Jesus's temptation has much more to offer than merely giving us a "how-to" guide on kicking Satan to the curb.
God’s creatures on four legs are some of the greatest storytellers of the Scriptures.
What is it about the cross and its embrace of shame that informs and inspires Christians, who, for various reasons, might find themselves inscribed by shame, to no longer be shameful?
Jesus took the poison of sin and drank the cup of wrath on our behalf to gain favor and righteousness for us.
God can never really be said to be ignoring us, even if our experience with God at any given moment is that he is.
This is an excerpt from the introduction of Hitchhiking with Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament written by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2024). Now available for preorder.
It is your privilege—we may even say “right”—to call upon this Father and to call him Father.
Eucatastrophe is the coming untrue of all sin, evil, and death. And where that starts is the empty tomb of the risen Jesus.
An Anglo-Saxon poem gives fresh insight to the cross