TOPIC INDEXBaptism (43)

  1. The Uncivilized Baptist: Why John Beckons Us to the Wilderness

    book
    12/09/13
    16 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Why does John make you uncomfortable? You know. It’s not just the clothing; it’s not only the hair; it’s not even really the diet. John the Baptist is uncivilized—that’s the problem.

  2. The Truth About Cemeteries

    book
    09/05/13
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For out of the mouths of these opposition forces, gathered on enemy turf, comes the defiant declaration of death’s undoing: “Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed!” An audacious act it is, to march smack dab into the middle of a place that screams, “Dead!” and to sing, “Alive!”

  3. The Divine Overachiever: What Happens When God Mans Up

    book
    08/24/13
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Here is the truth: we have gained more in Jesus than we lost in Adam. We lost human perfection in the first man's fall. We gained perfect flesh-and-blood unity with God in his Son's incarnation.

  4. Bringing Skin to the Fore: Circumcision and Why God's Manhood Matters

    book
    01/01/13
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Strange though it be, however, it is marvelous in meaning: for this was his way of writing his covenant into the very flesh of his people. What was not there, was a sign of what was there.

  5. Whiskey Baptism

    book
    11/21/12
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    A few people can endure a Job-like hell, get up, bless God, and face the future stronger than ever. Most of us aren’t such saints. We hobble along, half-walking, half-crawling into the will-be from the what-was.

  6. A Ninety-One Year Old Newborn

    book
    11/13/12
    7 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. My Three-Year-Old Daughter's Sermon: Baptism Theology at Its Finest

    book
    10/24/12
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Sometimes, the best sermons aren’t preached by preachers at all.