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  1. Burying the Hatchet: Why Forgiving Others Is So Hard Yet So Liberating

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    10/30/13
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    I believe, however, that lurking behind every reason we don't forgive is one fundamental impulse: the desire, real or perceived, to control the offender.

  2. Dying to Pray

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    10/25/13
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    The reason is much simpler than that: to learn to pray, you must first die. The language of prayer is taught in the school of death.

  3. Following the Trail of Blood: Words for the Church as Reformation Looms Nigh

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    10/23/13
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    O such is the crumbling fortress of the god of this world, but how it entices our flesh! For it looks like a house of candy to the Hansels and Gretels who wander through this world.

  4. Waking up with Leah: Learning to Love a Disappointing Church

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    10/22/13
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    Like the patriarch, Jacob, who after his wedding night, awoke to the wrong wife in his bed, I too one day opened my eyes to find that the Rachel with whom I had fallen in love, for whom I'd labored long years, was not the one beside me as the sun rose.

  5. The Three Friends Who Sought to Kill Death: A Cautionary Tale for Preachers

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    10/16/13
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    What is most remarkable about this tale is not how clever it is, but that the original storyteller was just as greedy as the three fictional young men were.
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