Peace Be With You
By Jason Oakland
07/11/25
5mins

Peace Be With You

‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”
An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
07/10/25

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress

This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.
Inception and the Paradox of Grace
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
07/09/25

Inception and the Paradox of Grace

Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.

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Chad Bird
Chad Bird
08/24/14

I Stab it With My Steely Knife but I Can't Kill the Beast Within

That all being said, come to think of it, I’ve never gone 24 seconds without sinning.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
08/19/14

Do I Really Matter? Does My Existence Mean Anything?

As I floated in the Gulf of Mexico, I spoke these truths, but it was not the waters or the heavens that needed to hear them.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
07/24/14

Men, What Are We Trying to Prove?

We like to define ourselves, and to have others see us and talk about us, based upon our accomplishments.
07/18/14

It's Okay to Use Reason to Attack Christian Faith But Not Defend It?

Some consider apologetics, with its emphasis on rational arguments and empirical evidence, a distinctly “modern” enterprise. Thus, however legitimate or useful it might once have been, now that we have taken an allegedly “postmodern” turn.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
07/08/14

God Doesn't Look for the Right Kind of People to Believe

You think the sower sowed his seed in you because he saw such good soil, such a good, generous, noble person.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
07/03/14

The Math of Mercy

Paul is on a roll. He's adding up all the things that can separate you from the love of God in Jesus Christ. And the total? Nothing, zilch, zero.
07/01/14

Christianity as Philosophy? (Part 2)

To determine whether the conception of Christianity as philosophy might actually be warranted, attention must be given to the actual natures of philosophy and religion, especially as then understood.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
06/20/14

Go, Old Man, and Sin No More

My life will be unwritten, erased by the hand of mortality. And fool that I am, I stand here threatening to snuff out the life of a woman caught in the act which I have acted out in my heart with a thousand women.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
05/28/14

Stumbling Over David's Confession: How to Understand "Against You, You Only, I Have Sinned"

For it is His law I have broken, His office in which I have failed, His people against whom I have sinned. All is from Him, so all I have taken, I have taken from Him. All others against whom I have sinned, I have sinned because they are of Him.
05/28/14

Christianity as Philosophy? (Part 1)

The characterization of Christianity as a philosophy—however counterintuitive—is entirely without warrant. And it is certainly not without precedent.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
05/23/14

Call Me Lazarus...One Year Later

I was angry at heaven, at earth, and everything in between, for my life and my love and my hopes had all gone wrong, terribly, irreversibly, wrong.
Steve Byrnes
Steve Byrnes
05/12/14

Religious Operating System

What does Steve Jobs have to do with Theology? Very little. But that won’t stop me from trying to make a connection.
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