TOPIC INDEXARTS AND CULTURE (33)

  1. Prayer Won't Stop School Shootings

    book
    02/17/18
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    A good place to start is to work hard at loving those no one else seems to love. I can’t think of a more Christ-like action.

  2. The Unexpected Narrative of God

    book
    01/17/18
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Dual narratives are unfolding in our lives at every moment. There’s the story we’re writing, and the one penned by the Spirit.

  3. The High and Holy Day of Black Friday

    book
    11/22/17
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The empty space in our hearts that we try to fill with stuff is filled only by the Maker of all things. An iPhone won’t fill that gap. Only a crucified and resurrected God fits in there.

  4. Facebook and the Edited Me

    book
    10/27/17
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Whether we realize it or not, all these online, self-editing actions are nothing more than our admission that we believe that we are so deeply flawed that no one will love us just as we are.

  5. Book Release Today: Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul

    book
    10/11/17
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    This book tells of my long and brutal journey. From married to divorced. From a seminary professor and pastor to a disgraced, bitter truck driver in the oil fields of Texas. From a man at war with God to a child redeemed by grace.

  6. Heaven's High Lungs: A Poem on the Valley of Dry Bones

    book
    03/29/17
    2 mins
    By Chad Bird
    They stood on their feet, the Father's host, Alive in the Son and Holy Ghost.

  7. John Chrysostom: The Preacher with a Golden Tongue

    book
    01/26/17
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.

  8. Additions to My Bookshelf. And Yours?

    book
    08/31/16
    16 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I love books. I love authors. I love the way putting words down on paper incarnates ideas that might otherwise remain ghosts of the mind, flitting here and there in our gray matter.

  9. Fat Tuesday's Redemption

    book
    02/09/16
    2 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Warning, Remember, O man, that thou art dust… And lust, he mocks in mute self-condemnation.

  10. Three Hymns on the Transfiguration

    book
    02/06/16
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In nature one with God, The Son partakes in love, Of human flesh that we, Partake of God above.

  11. Novel Salvation: How God Used Fiction to Save My Life

    book
    01/28/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As it turned out, the novels in which I had sought escape, became part of the means whereby the Lord rescued me from my own death.

  12. Samson: A Testosterone Poem

    book
    12/05/15
    2 mins
    By Chad Bird
    With but a donkey's jawbone He whacked a thousand men And iced yet even more
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