An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 123 and Psalm 136
By Chad Bird
09/30/25
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An Excerpt from Untamed Prayers: Psalm 123 and Psalm 136

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
St. Michael, Defender of God’s People
Amy Mantravadi
Amy Mantravadi
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St. Michael, Defender of God’s People

Why did the church dedicate a day to St. Michael anyway? Who is he, and what does he do?
Yardwork and the Antichrist
1517 Guest Contributor
1517 Guest Contributor
09/26/25

Yardwork and the Antichrist

The Antichrist offers another continual presence. It is every whisper that tempts us toward autonomy, that tells us to carry it alone, that insists suffering is meaningless.

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The Great Eucatastrophe

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Joel Hess
Joel Hess
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Fight Club Faith

What is your fight club? Who is your Tyler Durden?
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
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Heaven's High Lungs: A Poem on the Valley of Dry Bones

They stood on their feet, the Father's host, Alive in the Son and Holy Ghost.
Joel Hess
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Anything Else You Worship Will Eat You Alive

Whether one believes Jesus to be God or not, His words and actions proclaim that He did not come to be served but to serve.
Bob Hiller
Bob Hiller
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Preparing for Death and the University

Don’t let anyone tell you the academy denies the concept of truth...good gracious, I hope by the end of the semester they are still alive.
Bradley Gray
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Acquittal By The Attorney's Blood

One of my favorite shows in recent memory is the American law enforcement drama Law & Order.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
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The Heart of Unbelief

The more I heard the song, the more I heard the heart of the Gospel in the song.
Bror Erickson
Bror Erickson
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The Get Down

Today, people often bemoan the loss of children in the church.
Chad Bird
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Guest Post: It's the Love: On Conversion from Islam to Christianity

But one key theme that kept surfacing again and again was love: Jesus loved people, the Church showed me genuine love, and above all, God’s love in Christianity is unconditional.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
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John Chrysostom: The Preacher with a Golden Tongue

The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.
Joel Hess
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Through His Church, Christ's Story is Your Story

The story did not end with Jesus' death and resurrection, or even with the Acts of the Apostles.
Steven A. Hein
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Christmas is Bigger on the Inside

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