TOPIC INDEXConfession and Absolution (38)

  1. Church in Bed: Why Leave Home on Sunday Morning?

    book
    07/22/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    He lavishly pours out His rest in the waters of Baptism, in the spoken words of absolution from the pastor’s lips, in the preaching of the cross and resurrection, in the consumption of heavenly cuisine from the table at which He is host and meal.

  2. Hurts So Good: Our Dirty Little Secret on Ash Wednesday

    book
    02/08/16
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What is really good for the soul is not so much confession as absolution. If confession is us telling the truth about ourselves to God, then absolution is God telling us a truer truth about ourselves.

  3. The Myth of Forgiving Yourself

    book
    01/08/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I know now that to “forgive yourself” is not only impossible; it is foolish, dangerous, and futile. It is the vain attempt of a soul plagued by guilt to seek relief in the very last place he should be looking: in himself.

  4. The Best Time for a Pastor to Yawn During Worship

    book
    11/25/15
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What if, while we were admitting all these serious infractions of the divine law, our pastor simply yawned?

  5. From Hitler’s Wolves to Christ’s Lambs: The Chaplain to Nazi War Criminals

    book
    11/17/15
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What makes this story remarkable is that this man, along with others hanged that day, was among the most hated men in human history. He was guilty of atrocities so horrific only words forged in hell could adequately describe them.

  6. Graffiti and Grace

    book
    04/22/15
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When I’ve dipped my brush in the midnight black of lust or greed and smeared those sable sins all over the walls of my life, he’s come along with a bucket of paint and covered over that black with a white so bright it blinds the eyes.

  7. We Need Less Goliath, and More Bathsheba

    book
    02/27/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When I was a kid, I roamed the alleys and nearby fields with a pocket full of pebbles and a slingshot in hand. My grandfather had carved me the slingshot from the fork of a mesquite tree, native to our New Mexico soil.

  8. The Death of the Sons of David

    book
    11/06/14
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Yet as we mourn, but unlike those who have no hope, so also we repent, but unlike those who have no absolution. For we though we weep, there is a hand that dries all tears.

  9. Jesus and the Parable of the Horse's Mouth

    book
    09/19/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When I revisit in my mind the very long list of stupid, mean, selfish things I’ve done, every one of them began with me saying something I shouldn’t have.

  10. I Stab it With My Steely Knife but I Can't Kill the Beast Within

    book
    08/24/14
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    That all being said, come to think of it, I’ve never gone 24 seconds without sinning.

  11. Men, What Are We Trying to Prove?

    book
    07/24/14
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We like to define ourselves, and to have others see us and talk about us, based upon our accomplishments.

  12. Lord, Thee I Love with Half My Heart

    book
    07/13/14
    2 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I pray Thy name be hallowed, Lord, But want my name to be adored.
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