1. Waking Up as a Dragon

    book
    11/01/18
    11 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    Thank God for heroes: they inspire us to be better, to help others, to live and work for the good of our race. And thank God for villains, too: they incarnate our shadow side, our nocturnal soul, the dragon within us that must incessantly have its throat slit on the altar of repentance.
    Waking Up as a Dragon

  2. I Don't Know How to Pray

    book
    09/23/17
    8 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    How strange and yet how comforting: God prays to God for us, the Spirit to the Father. He sees through the fog of our emotions to what we truly need.
    I Don't Know How to Pray

  3. Christians, Thank God for Truth in Other Religions

    book
    05/08/17
    8 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    He was providentially injecting streams of light into the darkness, that thereby he might lead them toward the true light of Christ.
    Christians, Thank God for Truth in Other Religions

  4. Prove It

    book
    04/25/17
    7 mins
    read
    By Kathy Morales
    Show me. If I’m going to believe, I need to be convinced—on my terms.
    Prove It

  5. Guest Post: It's the Love: On Conversion from Islam to Christianity

    book
    01/30/17
    14 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    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.
    Guest Post: It's the Love: On Conversion from Islam to Christianity

  6. God, You Lied to Me: A Pastor's Struggle

    book
    05/19/16
    13 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    He has wandered away into the darkness of his doubting, got lost in his grief, confused by the pains he’s suffered. It happens. Shepherds sometimes become lost sheep as well.
    God, You Lied to Me: A Pastor's Struggle

  7. The Cocktail of Worship and Doubt

    book
    04/19/16
    9 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    But on the mountain in Galilee, where we encounter a very different side of God, doubts overtake us. Why?
    The Cocktail of Worship and Doubt

  8. Thank God for the Man Who Doubted Easter

    book
    03/29/16
    11 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    That is the way of our Lord, the way of grace. He doesn’t abandon Thomas to drown in a sea of doubt.
    Thank God for the Man Who Doubted Easter

  9. God, Don't You Care That I'm Dying?

    book
    02/11/16
    16 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    Our faith is not a mountain but a grain of sand, not pure gold but gilded plaster. And all it takes is a few nicks and scratches to reveal its shallowness.
    God, Don't You Care That I'm Dying?

  10. Most Religions Do Lead to the Same God

    book
    12/30/15
    14 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    The biblical witness is clear: all the so-called gods and lords and idols who are the object of people’s devotion, to whom they offer their sacrifices, to whom they pray, whom they call God and Lord, are sadly nothing but a front for the father of lies.
    Most Religions Do Lead to the Same God

  11. The Christian Polytheist

    book
    12/09/15
    10 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    There is truly only one commandment and only one sin. That one commandment is “You shall have no other gods,” and that one sin is idolatry.
    The Christian Polytheist

  12. Tapping Snake Cages

    book
    03/11/15
    12 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    Premeditated or not, you and only you invited this venom into your body, this evil percolating in your soul, and now you don’t know where to turn.
    Tapping Snake Cages
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