TOPIC INDEXBaptism (43)

  1. Here's What Happened on the Day of My Funeral

    book
    11/08/14
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The pastor put a hand over my mouth, another between my shoulder blades, and backward I fell into the dark waters, buried beneath Noah's flood, the Red Sea, Jordan's stream, all the way down into a borrowed tomb outside Jerusalem where a crucified man lay waiting for me.

  2. The Two Most Important Days in Your Life. And Why Mark Twain Was Wrong

    book
    10/15/14
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Your primary purpose in life is having something done to you. God created you in order that He might have someone to give to, to bless, to love, to nurture, to save, to give Himself to.

  3. A Victim's Shame

    book
    09/22/14
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Wouldn’t it be great if there were something that could de-shame us?

  4. The Green-Eyed Monster: Putting Jealousy in its Place

    book
    09/17/14
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It’ll eat you alive, won’t it? We begin to think we’re victims, as if the whole world is conspiring against us to deprive us of what we deserve.

  5. Have We Made Christianity Too Easy?

    book
    07/02/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Have we made Christianity too easy? No, God has made Christianity “too easy” because He has made it pure gift.

  6. When Angels Gathered Above a Kitchen Sink

    book
    06/23/14
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Ingram Robinson was 91 years old and had seen it all—well, almost seen it all. For what his eyes were about to behold, as the sun rose on his ninth decade in this world, was something entirely, and radically, new.

  7. How to Reach Your Full Human Potential

    book
    06/13/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    How will they reach this magical moment, this milestone on the journey of life? Perhaps by chasing their dreams, pursuing their passions with a heart wholly devoted to the attainment of whatever goals they set for themselves in life?

  8. Bows, Arrows, and Baptismal Fonts: The Significance of the Rainbow in the Bible

    book
    05/15/14
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The instrument of execution has been changed into an emblem of peace--a hawk become a dove, a sword hammered into a plowshare. Now every time God sees His bow, He who never forgets will nevertheless remember His oath never to draw it again to punish the earth by a cosmopolitan flood.

  9. What is That in My Casket?

    book
    04/09/14
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What we confess concerning a corpse confesses much about how deep, or how shallow, is our understanding of the importance of the incarnation of Jesus, his death, and his (as well as our own) resurrection.

  10. I Haven’t Made Jesus My Personal Lord and Savior

    book
    04/02/14
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I say I was dead before Jesus called me, but actually, I was worse off than that. Imagine a corpse who is at war with life, who is an enemy of the Life-giver. That was me.

  11. A Tale of Two Sodoms: The Difficulty of Escaping from Our Past

    book
    01/27/14
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It shows the extent to which an environment of iniquity can seep into the souls of believers, transforming them from the inside out, so that even when they “flee to the mountains,” like Lot and his girls, they take Sodom with them.

  12. Clothing for the Naked Eye: Seeing Things as They Really Are

    book
    01/21/14
    15 mins
    By Chad Bird
    A cemetery is a hard place to confess because the cemetery itself seems to confess, “You, O mortal, have lost.”
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