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  1. Taking Candy from Goliath

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    12/03/20
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    It's not always the giants, the obvious enemies, the clear battlefields that prove most exhausting and dangerous for us. It’s the ongoing, subtle, seductive, soul-gnawing smaller things in life that wear us down. What's a person to do?

  2. God’s Not Worried About the Election

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    11/01/20
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    Cast your vote with an air of bold and defiant levity. Don’t take yourself, or this election, so seriously. No string of unfortunate events can stop Christ's beating heart of mercy. No politician can un-Easter our Lord.

  3. The Church's Wisdom in the Voting Booth

    book
    10/12/20
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    We step into the voting booth with one foot on the outside. We are Americans, to be sure, but we are much more. We are citizens of the kingdom of God, over which the King of kings reigns supreme. Our time here is temporary. We are resident aliens in a land destined for a fiery destruction. Our allegiance is to Christ.

  4. 2020 Is a Great Year for the Church

    book
    10/07/20
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    The church is of no use to this world if all we do is ape the world’s rhetoric, antics, and actions. We are a unique community with a unique message. Here are four reasons I'm convinced that 2020 is a great year for the church.

  5. The Junkyard God of Conditional Forgiveness

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    09/07/20
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    From the junkyard of my past, I assembled the scrap metal of self-preservation, self-righteousness, and unalloyed selfishness, to weld together a hollow divinity. In its core, I stuffed myself: a god without divinity, offering forgiveness with conditions, to sinners without love.
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