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  1. The Night We Defeated God

    book
    05/05/15
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    His name’s Jacob. He’s not my first choice. I don’t care for Jacob. Never have. He’s got too much of me in him. He’s a liar and a cheat.

  2. Called and Ordained Sheriff of the Word

    book
    04/28/15
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    What is most amazing to me is not that Jesus welcomed public transgressors into his company. What astounds me is that they came to him with the full expectation of not being turned away.

  3. Graffiti and Grace

    book
    04/22/15
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    When I’ve dipped my brush in the midnight black of lust or greed and smeared those sable sins all over the walls of my life, he’s come along with a bucket of paint and covered over that black with a white so bright it blinds the eyes.

  4. Married to the Cross in Divorce

    book
    04/15/15
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    In divorce God married me to the cross. I didn’t want it; indeed, I hated it. But upon my shoulders God laid it. The ring of nails. The veil of darkness. The kiss of death. When we are stripped of all the good we think we are and have, we come face to face with the evil within. We fight and wrestle and gasp and die and become nothing.

  5. I'm One of those Lukewarm Christians

    book
    03/26/15
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    On Sunday mornings, when I confess my sins, I say that “I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them.” But those adverbs are like two accusing fingers pointed at my less-than-heartily-sorry, less-than-sincerely-repentant heart.
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