What Makes a Saint: A Saint is a Sinner

One might say that the first statement of the Reformation was that a saint never stops repenting.

Ken Sundet Jones

07/04/25

Freedom Beyond Strength and Wisdom

Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.

Free Indeed: The Liberty Only Christ Can Give

Ryan Couch

07/03/25

Free Indeed: The Liberty Only Christ Can Give

“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).

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Chad Bird

04/11/13

Let Him Who Is Without Sin

Let him feel the heft of stone cradled in his palm, and consider the gravity of guilt cast upon the hypocrite.

Chad Bird

01/12/13

Rehearsing Confession

Never are we more Hollywood than when we admit wrongdoing. Our confession is scripted, edited, practiced. Move over Brad Pitt; I’ve got this role down pat, for it’s my version of me.

Chad Bird

12/30/12

A few weeks ago, the pastor of my congregation did something in his sermon I’ve never heard a pastor do: he confessed a failure. He had once been ashamed of his brother, he admitted, and had acted in a way toward him that was not in keeping with love.

Chad Bird

11/21/12

Whiskey Baptism

A few people can endure a Job-like hell, get up, bless God, and face the future stronger than ever. Most of us aren’t such saints. We hobble along, half-walking, half-crawling into the will-be from the what-was.

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