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When the Psalms Pray Me

12/30/14

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By Chad Bird

Yes, I pray, but it is the Spirit who prays for me, in me, through me. I no more make up my own prayers than I made up the English language.
The Dad Who Didn't Have to Be a Dad: Even God Needed a Father

12/15/14

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By Chad Bird

The Son that He is sending into this world will need more than a mother; He needs a father.
Heaven's Gaze in a Child's Eyes: An Eight-Month-Old Teaches Us How God Loves the Outcast

12/10/14

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By Chad Bird

As God is prone to do, He sometimes shows us who He is through people whom we would never think of as teachers, much less imitators of God.
Dumpster Diving for Good Deeds

11/26/14

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By Chad Bird

One of the sad truths I realized about myself long ago is that I do nothing from completely spic-and-span motives. I mean nothing. When I hear someone say that they’re “utterly sincere” or they’re doing something “from pure motives,” I smell a lie.
Everything I Needed to Know About Vocation I Learned at the Lord's Supper

11/24/14

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By Chad Bird

We usually understand vocation in a very narrow sense; it’s your job, your “calling.” Vocation, however, is not so much what you do for a living but what Christ does through you for the living. It’s a 24/7 calling, not a 9 to 5 occupation.

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