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About Speakers
Philip D. Bartelt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theological Studies from Concordia University, Irvine, and a Master of Divinity from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. He lives with his beautiful wife, Jaclyn, and daughter, Anastasia, in New Fairfield, Connecticut. There he also serves as the pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd. He enjoys catechetical theology and biblical exegesis.
Chad Bird is a Scholar in Residence at 1517, where he brings his deep knowledge of Scripture and theology to readers, listeners, and audiences around the world. He holds master’s degrees from Concordia Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College. A prolific author, Chad has written numerous books, including Night Driving, The Christ Key, Unveiling Mercy, Hitchhiking with Prophets, and, most recently, Untamed Prayers (1517 Publishing). He is also the co-host of the popular podcast 40 Minutes in the Old Testament. A highly sought-after speaker and teacher, Chad combines theological insight with a servant’s heart. A Texan and avid runner, he and his wife, Stacy, enjoy traveling together and spending time with their grandchildren.
Philip Bartelt, Chad Bird Best Seller
Limping with God
When we look to the Bible for role models in our daily discipleship, we tend to think of Noah’s obedience and David’s bravery. Limping With God: Jacob and the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship posits that we can also look to Jacob.
Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple, though we can learn a lot from his journey.
He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing.
But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow Jesus.
In Jacob’s life we see our lives, our struggles, our failures, and most especially the God who loves us and chooses us as his own. As we explore his bio, from his wrangling in the womb with Esau to his death as an old man in Egypt, we will learn more about ourselves and the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah.
From the author: “I have entitled this book Limping With God instead of Walking With God or Running With God, not because there would be anything wrong with those metaphors, but because, as Jacob limped away from his famous wrestling match with God, so we all get by on bum hips and bad knees. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord. Finally, at our most mature, our eyes are opened to realize that we’ve never run or walked or even limped a single day of our lives.
“We’ve been on Christ’s shoulders the entire time.”
Unveiling Mercy
Unveiling Mercy will do just that—unveil how the mercy of God in the Messiah is spoken of from the very opening Hebrew word of the Bible, all the way to the closing chapter of Malachi. By the end of the year, you will have entered the Old Testament through 365 new doorways, looked with fresh eyes at old verses, and traced a web of connections all over the Scriptures that you’ve never spotted before. You’ll begin to see what one person meant when he described Hebrew words as “hyphens between heaven and earth.”
Reading the Bible in translation can be like “kissing the bride through the veil.” Each of these 365 devotions is crafted so as to lift that veil ever so slightly, to touch skin to skin, as it were, with the original language. You do not need to know anything about Hebrew to profit from these meditations. They are not written to teach you the language of Abraham, Moses, and Isaiah, but to give you a taste of their insights, to expose you to their eloquence, to laugh with them at their winking wordplays, to un-English their idioms, and—most importantly—to trace their trajectories all the way into the preaching of the Messiah and the writings of his evangelists and apostles.
The Christ Key
Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of all sorts of strange rooms.
- The creation room, vast and sublime.
- The exodus room, with hardhearted pharaohs and dried-up seas.
- The war room, with bloody swords and crumbling walls.
- The tabernacle room, with smoking altars and dark inner sanctums.
What does this odd and ancient world have to do with us, who are modern followers of Jesus? As it turns out, everything! Every chapter in the Old Testament, in a variety of ways, tells the story that culminates in Jesus the Messiah.
What Christians today call the Old Testament is what Jesus and the earliest believers simply called the Scriptures. That was their Bible. From its pages, they taught about the Messiah’s divine nature, his priestly work, his ministry of salvation. The Christ Key will reintroduce readers to these old books as ever-fresh, ever-new testimonies of Jesus. By the end, you will see even Leviticus as a book of grace and mercy, and you will hear in the Psalms the resounding voice of Christ.
What is Christianity?
We hear from the Apostle Peter that Christians should always be ready to give a confession of the hope that is in them and to defend their faith in an ever-changing world.
Originally delivered as an address at a synod convention in 1902, Das Wesen des Christentums or What is Christianity? was written by pastor and professor Francis Pieper.
In What is Christianity: Faith and Morality Reconsidered, Pieper takes up Peter's task against those who would confess works, moral improvement, and other man-made projects over and against the confession of Christ and him crucified. He boldly confesses what it means to be a Christian and what Christianity looks like with Christ truly as the center. In so doing, Pieper equips the saints to defend and proclaim the good news of forgiveness of sins on account of Christ alone.
Pastor Philip Bartelt (translator of Pieper's presentation) says, "For Pieper, to be Lutheran meant to believe in Jesus Christ as the perfect sacrifice for sins in our stead—that Jesus was put under the law, under our sin, and under our punishment, in our stead and on our behalf, so that by faith we may enjoy perfect freedom, righteousness, and salvation."
Limping with God
When we look to the Bible for role models in our daily discipleship, we tend to think of Noah’s obedience and David’s bravery. Limping With God: Jacob and the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship posits that we can also look to Jacob.
Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple, though we can learn a lot from his journey.
He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing.
But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow Jesus.
In Jacob’s life we see our lives, our struggles, our failures, and most especially the God who loves us and chooses us as his own. As we explore his bio, from his wrangling in the womb with Esau to his death as an old man in Egypt, we will learn more about ourselves and the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah.
From the author: “I have entitled this book Limping With God instead of Walking With God or Running With God, not because there would be anything wrong with those metaphors, but because, as Jacob limped away from his famous wrestling match with God, so we all get by on bum hips and bad knees. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord. Finally, at our most mature, our eyes are opened to realize that we’ve never run or walked or even limped a single day of our lives.
“We’ve been on Christ’s shoulders the entire time.”
My Cup Runneth Over
The God of heaven and earth is no tightfisted, miserly deity who leaves us starving for mercy and begging for crumbs of grace. He is lavish. He gives and gives, then just when we think he can't possibly have more for us, he heaps on still more. He formed all creation for us, his sons and daughters. He fills us with forgiveness and life in his Son, Jesus, who is love in the flesh. All we are and all we have is from him. What's more, using us as his hands and feet, the Spirit cares for those around us, even as they care for us. United by faith to our Father and by love to our neighbor, we live in the freedom that comes from Jesus, whose cup of salvation overflows into our lives.
The Christ Key
Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of all sorts of strange rooms.
- The creation room, vast and sublime.
- The exodus room, with hardhearted pharaohs and dried-up seas.
- The war room, with bloody swords and crumbling walls.
- The tabernacle room, with smoking altars and dark inner sanctums.
What does this odd and ancient world have to do with us, who are modern followers of Jesus? As it turns out, everything! Every chapter in the Old Testament, in a variety of ways, tells the story that culminates in Jesus the Messiah.
What Christians today call the Old Testament is what Jesus and the earliest believers simply called the Scriptures. That was their Bible. From its pages, they taught about the Messiah’s divine nature, his priestly work, his ministry of salvation. The Christ Key will reintroduce readers to these old books as ever-fresh, ever-new testimonies of Jesus. By the end, you will see even Leviticus as a book of grace and mercy, and you will hear in the Psalms the resounding voice of Christ.
Your God is Too Glorious
Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.
In our day of influencer worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.
Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.
Now available in a second edition, Chad Bird invites the reader to go deeper into the pursuit of the faithful, ordinary life with study questions at the end of each chapter for personal or corporate use.
Hitchhiking with Prophets
And everywhere in this story is God who, in his wild and passionate love for humanity, is shepherding history toward the birth and ministry of Jesus the Messiah.
Do you already have a good grasp of the Old Testament? Wonderful. This book will be an enjoyable review. Do you not know the difference between the Bible and The Hobbit? Also fine. This book will be a helpful map into unknown territory.
By the time we’re done, you won’t know all the ins and outs of the story, but you will have a strong grasp of the major movers and shakers. We will sit shotgun with patriarchs and prophets. Each one will take us a little farther down the Old Testament road until we get to the goal: to Jesus, the one in whom the whole story finds fulfillment and meaning.
Hitchhiking with Prophets
And everywhere in this story is God who, in his wild and passionate love for humanity, is shepherding history toward the birth and ministry of Jesus the Messiah.
Do you already have a good grasp of the Old Testament? Wonderful. This book will be an enjoyable review. Do you not know the difference between the Bible and The Hobbit? Also fine. This book will be a helpful map into unknown territory.
By the time we’re done, you won’t know all the ins and outs of the story, but you will have a strong grasp of the major movers and shakers. We will sit shotgun with patriarchs and prophets. Each one will take us a little farther down the Old Testament road until we get to the goal: to Jesus, the one in whom the whole story finds fulfillment and meaning.
Misericordia sin velo
Leer la Biblia en una traducción puede ser como «besar a la novia por sobre el velo». Cada uno de estos 365 devocionales está elaborado con el fin de levantar ese velo muy ligeramente, tocar piel con piel, por así decirlo, con el idioma original. No es necesario saber nada de hebreo para beneficiarse de estas meditaciones. No están escritas para enseñarte el idioma de Abraham, Moisés e Isaías, sino para darte una muestra de sus ideas, exponerte a su elocuencia, reír con ellos en sus ingeniosos juegos de palabras, para desespañolizar sus modismos, y, lo que es más importante, para seguir sus trayectorias hasta la predicación del Mesías y los escritos de sus evangelistas y apóstoles.
Your God is Too Glorious
Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.
In our day of influencer worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.
Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.
Now available in a second edition, Chad Bird invites the reader to go deeper into the pursuit of the faithful, ordinary life with study questions at the end of each chapter for personal or corporate use.
Cristo, la llave
Descubre a Jesús en cada página del Antiguo Testamento.
Para muchos, leer el Antiguo Testamento puede ser una misión antigua, llena de habitaciones extrañas y misteriosas. Pero, ¿qué tiene que ver todo esto con nuestra vida como creyentes modernos en Jesucristo? Mucho más de lo que te imaginas, y en Cristo, La Llave, Chad Bird te lleva a redescubrir estos antiguos libros como testimonios vivos de la obra del Mesías.
Lo que hoy llamamos el Antiguo Testamento fue para Jesús y los primeros cristianos simeplemente “las Escrituras”: su Biblia. En sus páginas se revelaban la divinidad de Cristo, su sacerdocio eterno, y su misión de traer salvación y gracia para la humanidad.
Este libro no solamente es una guía de estudio bíblico. Es una invitación a ver cómo todo el relato bíblico apunta a la persona de Cristo. Incluso aprenderás a leer libros como Levítico como fuentes de misericordia y señales de al redención que vendría en Jesús.
Si buscas una lectura que conecte el Antiguo Testament con la fe cristiana de hoy, y que te muestre cómo cada historia, símbolo y profecía tiene un eco en la cruz y la resurreción, este libro es para ti.
Hitchhiking with Prophets
And everywhere in this story is God who, in his wild and passionate love for humanity, is shepherding history toward the birth and ministry of Jesus the Messiah.
Do you already have a good grasp of the Old Testament? Wonderful. This book will be an enjoyable review. Do you not know the difference between the Bible and The Hobbit? Also fine. This book will be a helpful map into unknown territory.
By the time we’re done, you won’t know all the ins and outs of the story, but you will have a strong grasp of the major movers and shakers. We will sit shotgun with patriarchs and prophets. Each one will take us a little farther down the Old Testament road until we get to the goal: to Jesus, the one in whom the whole story finds fulfillment and meaning.
Misericordia sin velo
Misericordia sin velo te invita a descubrir como nunca antes la profunda misericordia de Dios revelada desde la primera palabra en hebreo de la Biblia hasta el último capítulo de Malaquías. A través de 365 devocionales cristianos, recorrerás el Antiguo Testamento como si abrieras una puerta nueva cada día, encontrando conexiones sorprendentes, símbolos del Mesías y mensajes ocultos en el lenguaje original de las Escrituras.
Este devocional diario está diseñado para que te enamores aún más de la Palabra de Dios, incluso si no sabes nada de hebreo. No necesitas ser un experto para disfrutarlo: cada meditación está escrita de forma clara y accesible, ofreci´ndote una lectura cristiana profunda y fácil de entender.
Leer la Biblia traducida puede sentirse como besar a la novia a través del velo. Este libro levanta ese velo poco a poco, acercándote al lenguaje bíblico original y revelando su belleza, sus juegos de palabras, y la profundidad espiritual que muchas veces se pierde en la traducción.
Este libro es perfecto para quienes buscan un devocional bíblico distinto, con raíces en el texto hebreo pero centrado en Jesucristo. Es ideal para tu tiempo de reflexión diaria, estudio bíblico o como regalo especial. Conectarás con la fe del pueblo de Dios, desde Abraham hasta los apóstoles, y verás cómo toda la Escritura apunta el Evangelio.
Tu Dios es demasiado glorioso
En nuestra época de adoración a los influentes y de presunción virtual, esta es una forma novedosa, incluso transformadora, de entender a Dios y nuestro lugar en su creación. Nos insta a apreciar una vida de sencillez, a amar a aquellos a los que el mundo ignora, a trabajar por la gloria de Dios antes que la nuestra. Y demuestra que Dios siempre ha sido el Señor de la cruz: un Salvador que esconde su gracia en lugares sin encanto ni gloria.
Tu Dios es demasiado glorioso les recuerda a los lectores que, si bien una vida tranquila puede parecerle insulsa al mundo, Dios tiende a usar a las personas comunes y corrientes para llevar a cabo su labor más importante.
Al final de cada capítulo, Chad Bird invita al lector a profundizar en la búsqueda de la vida fiel y ordinaria con preguntas de estudio para uso tanto personal como grupal.
Cristo, la llave
Leer el Antiguo Testamento puede parecer como explorar una antigua y misteriosa mansión, llena de toda clase de cuartos extraños. El cuarto de la creación, amplio y sublime. El cuarto del éxodo, con faraones de corazón empedernido y mares que se secan. El cuarto de la guerra, con espadas ensangrentadas y muros derribados. El cuarto del tabernáculo, con altares humeantes y un oscuro lugar santísimo. ¿Qué tiene que ver este curioso y antiguo mundo con nosotros los seguidores modernos de Jesús? ¡Resulta que tiene todo que ver! Cada capítulo del Antiguo Testamento, de variadas formas, cuenta la historia que culmina en Jesús el Mesías.
Lo que los cristianos hoy llaman el Antiguo Testamento es lo que Jesús y los primeros creyentes llamaban las Escrituras. Esa era su Biblia. Desde sus páginas, ellos enseñaron acerca de la naturaleza divina del Mesías, su obra sacerdotal, su ministerio de salvación. Cristo, la llave presentará una vez más a los lectores estos antiguos libros como testimonios siempre frescos y novedosos de Jesús. Al terminar, aun Levítico te parecerá un libro de gracia y misericordia, y en los Salmos oirás la potente voz de Cristo.
My Cup Runneth Over
The God of heaven and earth is no tightfisted, miserly deity who leaves us starving for mercy and begging for crumbs of grace. He is lavish. He gives and gives, then just when we think he can't possibly have more for us, he heaps on still more. He formed all creation for us, his sons and daughters. He fills us with forgiveness and life in his Son, Jesus, who is love in the flesh. All we are and all we have is from him. What's more, using us as his hands and feet, the Spirit cares for those around us, even as they care for us. United by faith to our Father and by love to our neighbor, we live in the freedom that comes from Jesus, whose cup of salvation overflows into our lives.
Limping with God
When we look to the Bible for role models in our daily discipleship, we tend to think of Noah’s obedience and David’s bravery. Limping With God: Jacob and the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship posits that we can also look to Jacob.
Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple, though we can learn a lot from his journey.
He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing.
But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow Jesus.
In Jacob’s life we see our lives, our struggles, our failures, and most especially the God who loves us and chooses us as his own. As we explore his bio, from his wrangling in the womb with Esau to his death as an old man in Egypt, we will learn more about ourselves and the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah.
From the author: “I have entitled this book Limping With God instead of Walking With God or Running With God, not because there would be anything wrong with those metaphors, but because, as Jacob limped away from his famous wrestling match with God, so we all get by on bum hips and bad knees. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord. Finally, at our most mature, our eyes are opened to realize that we’ve never run or walked or even limped a single day of our lives.
“We’ve been on Christ’s shoulders the entire time.”
The Christ Key
Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of all sorts of strange rooms.
- The creation room, vast and sublime.
- The exodus room, with hardhearted pharaohs and dried-up seas.
- The war room, with bloody swords and crumbling walls.
- The tabernacle room, with smoking altars and dark inner sanctums.
What does this odd and ancient world have to do with us, who are modern followers of Jesus? As it turns out, everything! Every chapter in the Old Testament, in a variety of ways, tells the story that culminates in Jesus the Messiah.
What Christians today call the Old Testament is what Jesus and the earliest believers simply called the Scriptures. That was their Bible. From its pages, they taught about the Messiah’s divine nature, his priestly work, his ministry of salvation. The Christ Key will reintroduce readers to these old books as ever-fresh, ever-new testimonies of Jesus. By the end, you will see even Leviticus as a book of grace and mercy, and you will hear in the Psalms the resounding voice of Christ.
Unveiling Mercy
Unveiling Mercy will do just that—unveil how the mercy of God in the Messiah is spoken of from the very opening Hebrew word of the Bible, all the way to the closing chapter of Malachi. By the end of the year, you will have entered the Old Testament through 365 new doorways, looked with fresh eyes at old verses, and traced a web of connections all over the Scriptures that you’ve never spotted before. You’ll begin to see what one person meant when he described Hebrew words as “hyphens between heaven and earth.”
Reading the Bible in translation can be like “kissing the bride through the veil.” Each of these 365 devotions is crafted so as to lift that veil ever so slightly, to touch skin to skin, as it were, with the original language. You do not need to know anything about Hebrew to profit from these meditations. They are not written to teach you the language of Abraham, Moses, and Isaiah, but to give you a taste of their insights, to expose you to their eloquence, to laugh with them at their winking wordplays, to un-English their idioms, and—most importantly—to trace their trajectories all the way into the preaching of the Messiah and the writings of his evangelists and apostles.
Mi copa está rebosando
Hitchhiking with Prophets
And everywhere in this story is God who, in his wild and passionate love for humanity, is shepherding history toward the birth and ministry of Jesus the Messiah.
Do you already have a good grasp of the Old Testament? Wonderful. This book will be an enjoyable review. Do you not know the difference between the Bible and The Hobbit? Also fine. This book will be a helpful map into unknown territory.
By the time we’re done, you won’t know all the ins and outs of the story, but you will have a strong grasp of the major movers and shakers. We will sit shotgun with patriarchs and prophets. Each one will take us a little farther down the Old Testament road until we get to the goal: to Jesus, the one in whom the whole story finds fulfillment and meaning.
Tu Dios es demasiado glorioso
Descubre el poder de una vida sencilla vivida para la gloria de Dios.
La mayoría de nosotros no somos famosos, ni ricos, ni increíbles. Tenemos días buenos, días malos, y vivimos en una rutina que parece radicalmente ordinaria. Pero justamente ahí, en lo ordinario, es donde Dios se mueve con más fuerza. Mientras el mundo aplaude la fama, la belleza y el éxito, el Señor esconde su gloria en lo simple, lo débil y lo olvidado.
En tiempos donde se idolatra a los influencers y se vive para las apariencias, este libro trae un mensaje profundamente liberador y transformador. Nos recuerda que una vida sencilla, vivida con fidelidad, es una vida que glorifica a Dios. Que los verdaderos héroes del Reino no siempre son visibles, pero están presentes en la casa, en el trabajo y en lo cotidiano.
Chad Bird nos invita a abrazar una espiritualidad realista, práctica y profundamente bíblica. Con historias, enseñanzas y reflexiones, este libro revela cómo la gracia de Dios se esconde en lugares comunes y cómo los cristianos ordinarios pueden hacer obras extraordinarias cuando viven para Él.
Ahora en su segunda edición, incluye preguntas al final de cada capítulo ideales para el estudio personal, grupos pequeños o discipulados. Tu Dios es Demasiado Glorioso es para quienes buscan vivir una fe autétnica, lejos del ruido del ego, y más cerca del corazón de Dios.
Cojear con Dios
Un enfoque honesto del discipulado cristiano a través de uno de los personajes más humanos de la Biblia: Jacob.
Cuando buscamos inspiración en la Biblia para fortalecer nuestra fe y vida cristiana, pensamos en la obediencia de Noé o la valentía de David. Pero Cojear con Dios: La guía de Jacob y el Antiguo Testamento para un discipulado turbulento de Chad Bird nos invita a mirar a Jacob: imperfecto, conflictivo... y profundamente transformado por Dios.
Jacob no encaja en la imagen tradicional del héroe bíblico. Fue un hombre ambicioso, mentiroso y parte de una familia disfuncional. Sin embargo, Dios lo eligió y lo bendijo. Su vida refleja el camino real del creyente: lleno de luchas espirituales, fracasos, redención y gracia divina.
Este libro de espiritualidad cristiana explora cómo el discipulado auténtico —ese que vivimos día a día— es muchas veces caótico, como el de Jacob. Desde su pelea con Esaú en el vientre, hasta su muerte en Egipto, su historia nos muestra que seguir a Jesús no es un camino perfecto, sino uno donde muchas veces avanzamos cojeando, pero siempre sostenidos por la fidelidad de Dios.
Ideal para lectores interesados en el Antiguo Testamento, devocionales bíblicos y teología práctica, esta obra ofrece una mirada profunda y realista sobre cómo Dios obra en medio de nuestras debilidades. Si estás buscando un libro sobre fe bíblica que hable a tu experiencia real como creyente, este es para ti.
Cojear con Dios
Limping with God
When we look to the Bible for role models in our daily discipleship, we tend to think of Noah’s obedience and David’s bravery. Limping With God: Jacob and the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship posits that we can also look to Jacob.
Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple, though we can learn a lot from his journey.
He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing.
But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow Jesus.
In Jacob’s life we see our lives, our struggles, our failures, and most especially the God who loves us and chooses us as his own. As we explore his bio, from his wrangling in the womb with Esau to his death as an old man in Egypt, we will learn more about ourselves and the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah.
From the author: “I have entitled this book Limping With God instead of Walking With God or Running With God, not because there would be anything wrong with those metaphors, but because, as Jacob limped away from his famous wrestling match with God, so we all get by on bum hips and bad knees. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord. Finally, at our most mature, our eyes are opened to realize that we’ve never run or walked or even limped a single day of our lives.
“We’ve been on Christ’s shoulders the entire time.”
Your God is Too Glorious
Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.
In our day of influencer worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.
Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.
Now available in a second edition, Chad Bird invites the reader to go deeper into the pursuit of the faithful, ordinary life with study questions at the end of each chapter for personal or corporate use.
The Christ Key
Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of all sorts of strange rooms. The creation room, vast and sublime. The exodus room, with hardhearted pharaohs and dried-up seas. The war room, with bloody swords and crumbling walls. The tabernacle room, with smoking altars and dark inner sanctums. What does this odd and ancient world have to do with us, who are modern followers of Jesus? As it turns out, everything! Every chapter in the Old Testament, in a variety of ways, tells the story that culminates in Jesus the Messiah.
What Christians today call the Old Testament is what Jesus and the earliest believers simply called the Scriptures. That was their Bible. From its pages, they taught about the Messiah’s divine nature, his priestly work, his ministry of salvation. The Christ Key will reintroduce readers to these old books as ever-fresh, ever-new testimonies of Jesus. By the end, you will see even Leviticus as a book of grace and mercy, and you will hear in the Psalms the resounding voice of Christ.
Viajar a dedo con los profetas
La Biblia no es un libro aburrido. Es un verdadero circo humano, lleno de santos valientes, profetas intensos, reyes zurdos que matan con estilo, asnos que hablan, y todo el drama, la gloria y el caos que puedas imaginar.
Y en el centro de todo está Dios: apasionado y sorprendente. Un Dios que con amor inquebrantable guia la historia hacia su clímax definitivo: el nacimiento y ministerio de Jesúes, el Mesías.
¿Ya conoces bien el Antiguo Testamento? ¡Perfecto! Este libro será una lectura divertida y refrescante.
¿Conoces la diferencia entre la Biblia y El Hobbit? Este libro es un mapa claro y entretenido para explorar un territorio nuevo sin sentirte perdido.
A lo largo del recorrido, no memorizarás cada detalle, pero sí conocerás a los personajes más importantes - patriarcas, profetas y protagonistas divinos - que te llevarán paso a paso hasta el gran desenlace.
Viajae a dedo con los profetas es una gran narrativa del Antiguo Testamento, con un estilo accesible, divertido y profundamente bíblico. Este libro te llevará de la mano a través de momentos clave del pueblo de Dios.
Unveiling Mercy
Unveiling Mercy will do just that—unveil how the mercy of God in the Messiah is spoken of from the very opening Hebrew word of the Bible, all the way to the closing chapter of Malachi. By the end of the year, you will have entered the Old Testament through 365 new doorways, looked with fresh eyes at old verses, and traced a web of connections all over the Scriptures that you’ve never spotted before. You’ll begin to see what one person meant when he described Hebrew words as “hyphens between heaven and earth.”
Reading the Bible in translation can be like “kissing the bride through the veil.” Each of these 365 devotions is crafted so as to lift that veil ever so slightly, to touch skin to skin, as it were, with the original language. You do not need to know anything about Hebrew to profit from these meditations. They are not written to teach you the language of Abraham, Moses, and Isaiah, but to give you a taste of their insights, to expose you to their eloquence, to laugh with them at their winking wordplays, to un-English their idioms, and—most importantly—to trace their trajectories all the way into the preaching of the Messiah and the writings of his evangelists and apostles.
Untamed Prayers
Untamed Prayers by Chad Bird is a book that will take you out of your spiritual comfort zone. As you read, you'll learn to leave behind the boring, predictable prayers and dive into ones full of praise, despair, joy, and lament. The Psalms cover all parts of life—the good times and the tough ones—and what better way to find the right words to say to God than the very prayers he gave us to pray?
But there's something special about this book: Chad Bird shows how these ancient prayers are connected to Jesus as you go through the Psalms. You'll discover that you're not just talking to God by yourself; Jesus is right there with you, praying alongside you. This is a book that helps you feel that closeness, freeing you to speak to the Father with complete honesty. If you're looking for a prayer life that is anchored in the words and works of Jesus, Untamed Prayers is the perfect guide for this journey.
Mi copa está rebosando
Descubre el poder transformador de la gracia de Dios con este impactante libro cristiano que te recordará quién es realmente el Dios que adoramos. Es un Padre generoso, lleno de amor, que derrama bendiciones sobre sus hijos.
En este libro experimentarás la belleza de una vida cristiana plena, basada en el regalo inmerecido de la salvación por medio de Jesucristo. Él nos llena con su perdón, nos da vida en abundancia, y nos une como familia en fe.
Este es un devocional diario perfecto, una guía para grupos de estudio bíblico o simplesmente como lectura que edifica el alma. Ofrece una profunda reflexión sobre cómo el Espíritu Santo obra en nosotros y a través de nosotros para extender el amor de Dios a nuestro prójimo.
Si buscas libros cristianos que alimente tu crecimiento espiritual, fortalezcan tu fe cristiana, y te conecten con la teología bíblica, este es el recurso ideal. Te inspirará a vivir en la libertad que solo se encuentra en Cristo, cuya copa de salvación desborda sobre nuestras vidas.
Un mensaje esperanzador y lleno de verdad que te hará ver a Dios no como alguien lejano, sino como un Padre cercano, que te ama y quiere usarte para reflejar su liz en el mundo.
Viajar a dedo con los profetas
La Biblia no es un libro aburrido. Es un verdadero circo humano, lleno de santos valientes, profetas intensos, reyes zurdos que matan con estilo, asnos que hablan, y todo el drama, la gloria y el caos que puedas imaginar.
Y en el centro de todo está Dios: apasionado y sorprendente. Un Dios que con amor inquebrantable guia la historia hacia su clímax definitivo: el nacimiento y ministerio de Jesúes, el Mesías.
¿Ya conoces bien el Antiguo Testamento? ¡Perfecto! Este libro será una lectura divertida y refrescante.
¿Conoces la diferencia entre la Biblia y El Hobbit? Este libro es un mapa claro y entretenido para explorar un territorio nuevo sin sentirte perdido.
A lo largo del recorrido, no memorizarás cada detalle, pero sí conocerás a los personajes más importantes - patriarcas, profetas y protagonistas divinos - que te llevarán paso a paso hasta el gran desenlace.
Viajae a dedo con los profetas es una gran narrativa del Antiguo Testamento, con un estilo accesible, divertido y profundamente bíblico. Este libro te llevará de la mano a través de momentos clave del pueblo de Dios.
Oraciones indomables
Oraciones Indomables de Chad Bird es un libro que te sacará de tu zona de confort espiritual. A medida que leas, aprenderás a dejar atrás las oraciones aburridas y predecibles para sumergirte en oraciones llenas de alabanza, desesperación, alegría y lamento. Los Salmos abarcan todos los aspectos de la vida: los buenos y los malos momentos, y ¿qué mejor manera de encontrar las palabras adecuadas para dirigirte a Dios que las mismas oraciones que él nos dio?
Pero hay algo especial en este libro: Chad Bird muestra cómo estas antiguas oraciones se conectan con Jesús a medida que recorres los Salmos. Descubrirás que no solo estás hablando con Dios a solas; Jesús está contigo, orando a tu lado. Este libro te ayuda a sentir esa cercanía, liberándote para hablar con el Padre con total honestidad. Si buscas una vida de oración basada en las palabras y obras de Jesús, Oraciones Indomables es la guía perfecta para este camino.
Oraciones indomables
Oraciones Indomables de Chad Bird es un libro que te sacará de tu zona de confort espiritual. A medida que leas, aprenderás a dejar atrás las oraciones aburridas y predecibles para sumergirte en oraciones llenas de alabanza, desesperación, alegría y lamento. Los Salmos abarcan todos los aspectos de la vida: los buenos y los malos momentos, y ¿qué mejor manera de encontrar las palabras adecuadas para dirigirte a Dios que las mismas oraciones que él nos dio?
Pero hay algo especial en este libro: Chad Bird muestra cómo estas antiguas oraciones se conectan con Jesús a medida que recorres los Salmos. Descubrirás que no solo estás hablando con Dios a solas; Jesús está contigo, orando a tu lado. Este libro te ayuda a sentir esa cercanía, liberándote para hablar con el Padre con total honestidad. Si buscas una vida de oración basada en las palabras y obras de Jesús, Oraciones Indomables es la guía perfecta para este camino.
Untamed Prayers
Untamed Prayers by Chad Bird is a book that will take you out of your spiritual comfort zone. As you read, you'll learn to leave behind the boring, predictable prayers and dive into ones full of praise, despair, joy, and lament. The Psalms cover all parts of life—the good times and the tough ones—and what better way to find the right words to say to God than the very prayers he gave us to pray?
But there's something special about this book: Chad Bird shows how these ancient prayers are connected to Jesus as you go through the Psalms. You'll discover that you're not just talking to God by yourself; Jesus is right there with you, praying alongside you. This is a book that helps you feel that closeness, freeing you to speak to the Father with complete honesty. If you're looking for a prayer life that is anchored in the words and works of Jesus, Untamed Prayers is the perfect guide for this journey.
Unveiling Mercy
Unveiling Mercy will do just that—unveil how the mercy of God in the Messiah is spoken of from the very opening Hebrew word of the Bible, all the way to the closing chapter of Malachi. By the end of the year, you will have entered the Old Testament through 365 new doorways, looked with fresh eyes at old verses, and traced a web of connections all over the Scriptures that you’ve never spotted before. You’ll begin to see what one person meant when he described Hebrew words as “hyphens between heaven and earth.”
Reading the Bible in translation can be like “kissing the bride through the veil.” Each of these 365 devotions is crafted so as to lift that veil ever so slightly, to touch skin to skin, as it were, with the original language. You do not need to know anything about Hebrew to profit from these meditations. They are not written to teach you the language of Abraham, Moses, and Isaiah, but to give you a taste of their insights, to expose you to their eloquence, to laugh with them at their winking wordplays, to un-English their idioms, and—most importantly—to trace their trajectories all the way into the preaching of the Messiah and the writings of his evangelists and apostles.
The Christ Key
Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of all sorts of strange rooms.
- The creation room, vast and sublime.
- The exodus room, with hardhearted pharaohs and dried-up seas.
- The war room, with bloody swords and crumbling walls.
- The tabernacle room, with smoking altars and dark inner sanctums.
What does this odd and ancient world have to do with us, who are modern followers of Jesus? As it turns out, everything! Every chapter in the Old Testament, in a variety of ways, tells the story that culminates in Jesus the Messiah.
What Christians today call the Old Testament is what Jesus and the earliest believers simply called the Scriptures. That was their Bible. From its pages, they taught about the Messiah’s divine nature, his priestly work, his ministry of salvation. The Christ Key will reintroduce readers to these old books as ever-fresh, ever-new testimonies of Jesus. By the end, you will see even Leviticus as a book of grace and mercy, and you will hear in the Psalms the resounding voice of Christ.
Limping with God
When we look to the Bible for role models in our daily discipleship, we tend to think of Noah’s obedience and David’s bravery. Limping With God: Jacob and the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship posits that we can also look to Jacob.
Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple, though we can learn a lot from his journey.
He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing.
But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow Jesus.
In Jacob’s life we see our lives, our struggles, our failures, and most especially the God who loves us and chooses us as his own. As we explore his bio, from his wrangling in the womb with Esau to his death as an old man in Egypt, we will learn more about ourselves and the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah.
From the author: “I have entitled this book Limping With God instead of Walking With God or Running With God, not because there would be anything wrong with those metaphors, but because, as Jacob limped away from his famous wrestling match with God, so we all get by on bum hips and bad knees. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord. Finally, at our most mature, our eyes are opened to realize that we’ve never run or walked or even limped a single day of our lives.
“We’ve been on Christ’s shoulders the entire time.”
Hitchhiking with Prophets
And everywhere in this story is God who, in his wild and passionate love for humanity, is shepherding history toward the birth and ministry of Jesus the Messiah.
Do you already have a good grasp of the Old Testament? Wonderful. This book will be an enjoyable review. Do you not know the difference between the Bible and The Hobbit? Also fine. This book will be a helpful map into unknown territory.
By the time we’re done, you won’t know all the ins and outs of the story, but you will have a strong grasp of the major movers and shakers. We will sit shotgun with patriarchs and prophets. Each one will take us a little farther down the Old Testament road until we get to the goal: to Jesus, the one in whom the whole story finds fulfillment and meaning.
Your God is Too Glorious
Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.
In our day of influencer worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.
Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.
Now available in a second edition, Chad Bird invites the reader to go deeper into the pursuit of the faithful, ordinary life with study questions at the end of each chapter for personal or corporate use.
My Cup Runneth Over
The God of heaven and earth is no tightfisted, miserly deity who leaves us starving for mercy and begging for crumbs of grace. He is lavish. He gives and gives, then just when we think he can't possibly have more for us, he heaps on still more. He formed all creation for us, his sons and daughters. He fills us with forgiveness and life in his Son, Jesus, who is love in the flesh. All we are and all we have is from him. What's more, using us as his hands and feet, the Spirit cares for those around us, even as they care for us. United by faith to our Father and by love to our neighbor, we live in the freedom that comes from Jesus, whose cup of salvation overflows into our lives.
Untamed Prayers
Untamed Prayers by Chad Bird is a book that will take you out of your spiritual comfort zone. As you read, you'll learn to leave behind the boring, predictable prayers and dive into ones full of praise, despair, joy, and lament. The Psalms cover all parts of life—the good times and the tough ones—and what better way to find the right words to say to God than the very prayers he gave us to pray?
But there's something special about this book: Chad Bird shows how these ancient prayers are connected to Jesus as you go through the Psalms. You'll discover that you're not just talking to God by yourself; Jesus is right there with you, praying alongside you. This is a book that helps you feel that closeness, freeing you to speak to the Father with complete honesty. If you're looking for a prayer life that is anchored in the words and works of Jesus, Untamed Prayers is the perfect guide for this journey.