TOPIC INDEXForgiveness (54)

  1. The Beginner's Guide to Giving Your Sin a Holy Name

    book
    08/16/16
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Although I was too young to have mastered the skill of lying, I also knew that I couldn’t tell this woman the truth.

  2. 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.

  3. Dear Church: The World Needs a Cross Not a Pacifier

    book
    06/30/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Why was Jesus crucified? Not to save victims, but to save sinners.

  4. Bible Verses That Haunt Me

    book
    06/24/16
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The dying words of Jesus were not, “Make it worth it,” but “It is finished.”

  5. Everything I Know About Worship I Learned from a Prostitute

    book
    05/24/16
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When Simon the Pharisee got his holier-than-thou panties in a wad over what this woman was doing, Jesus insulted him by pointing out how much a better host this prostitute was than he was.

  6. Burying Old Hostilities

    book
    04/22/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    This I know: hate sucks you dry. It’s the worst high-maintenance companion ever. Always demanding more of your time, more of your energy, more of your emotion.

  7. Church and the Toilet Flush

    book
    04/19/16
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Burdened within and without, we cross the threshold into church. We don't leave behind our earthiness, our tragedies, our white-knuckled grip on the last vestige of dignity in our sad lives.

  8. Putting a Gag Order on the Gospel

    book
    03/22/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The first person who attempted to stop people from talking about Jesus was not a tyrant, a secular government, or a bully religious mob.

  9. Dirty Little Secrets

    book
    03/03/16
    16 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Your sins do not exist because He who called heaven and earth into existence, has called your sins out of existence. He who made everything from nothing unmakes your sins into nothing.

  10. New Life Begins in the Dark

    book
    03/01/16
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We spend the first nine months of our lives in utter darkness. There are no tiny fluorescent bulbs beaming from the ceiling of the womb, no fetal flashlights, not even a pinprick of illumination.

  11. Our Precious Sins We Don't Want God to Forgive

    book
    02/21/16
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We hang on to our sins not despite the fact that they hurt, but precisely because they do hurt. We need to hurt, to fret over them, to cry over them, to make amends over them, because by doing so, we will grease the wheels of God’s forgiveness.

  12. Jesus and Abortion

    book
    01/29/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    If April 1 is April Fools’ Day, then March 25 is Divine Fool’s Day. Falling nine months before Christmas, it’s the day when God set in motion what appeared to be a foolish plan.
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