TOPIC INDEXDeath and Dying (25)

  1. Please Don’t Say These Six Things at My Funeral

    book
    04/21/22
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I want the beginning of my funeral to be focused on Jesus, as well as the middle, the end, and every point in between.

  2. Photoshopping Death

    book
    09/20/17
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Death is never natural. Death is abnormal. Death is not human. Death is the enemy.

  3. How Will Your Congregation Die?

    book
    09/09/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The only churches that live are churches that have died. That still die. And that rise to newness of life in Christ’s life alone.

  4. Miscarriages: An Empty Cradle and a Full Hope

    book
    07/29/17
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For every child in a mother’s womb, the whole host of heaven and earth, indeed God himself, intercedes.

  5. Putting to Death Our Immortality Projects

    book
    06/28/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The only recourse we have is to die before we die. To give up on a fake-life. To acknowledge that this stupid, selfish game we’re playing with our immortality projects has zero success.

  6. Funeral Songs I Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead Singing

    book
    07/18/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    There are many funeral songs I wouldn’t be caught dead singing. Why? Because my funeral will not be about me.

  7. Five Failures I Hope to Achieve Before I Die

    book
    06/07/16
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I have my list. It may seem strange to you, but, when I think about my own death, I often think in terms of positive failures.

  8. The Most Unusual Cemetery in America: New York City’s Hart Island and the Heart of Easter’s Lord

    book
    03/14/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The Lord has a special place in his heart for those whom the world forgets. For the anonymous. For the rejected.

  9. Graveyard Lullaby: O Bloody Town of Bethlehem

    book
    12/28/15
    2 mins
    By Chad Bird
    O bloody town of Bethlehem, How shrill we hear thee cry. Your mothers shriek while fathers weep The graveyard lullaby.

  10. God Writes Straight With Crooked Lines

    book
    09/18/15
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I stumbled down labyrinthine paths, crawled in and out of cavernous pits, got lost a million times, and somehow ended up a little farther down the road to healing. Yet in all those crooked lines I see the hand of God writing straight.

  11. What Bible Story Has CSI’s Fingerprints All Over It?

    book
    03/03/15
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    If Abel’s blood is spilled all over the ground or if a mere speck had been lodged in the fabric of Cain’s shirt, that blood cries out. It has a voice and it will speak to whomever is willing to listen.

  12. 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.
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