TOPIC INDEXHoly Spirit (30)

  1. God’s Grand Exit: Rethinking Why the Temple Veil Was Torn

    book
    04/18/18
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The veil was not torn to let us in but to let God out.

  2. I Don't Know How to Pray

    book
    09/23/17
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    How strange and yet how comforting: God prays to God for us, the Spirit to the Father. He sees through the fog of our emotions to what we truly need.

  3. How to Prepare for the End of the World by Frying Bacon

    book
    08/12/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The love of God in Jesus is our confidence when the world seems to teeter on the brink of self-destruction.

  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. Joy Has No Expiration Date: A Story of Love Worth Waiting For

    book
    02/13/17
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Their love story was a long time in coming. He was 82 and she 74. And this was the first, and the last, marriage for both.

  6. The Professional Christian

    book
    07/05/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Being a Christian is hard because it’s easy.

  7. Sometimes We See Too Much

    book
    02/03/16
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Whether we are overcome by happiness on the mountaintop or overwhelmed by sorrow in the valley, our vision can be our greatest handicap.

  8. The Religion of Regret

    book
    01/23/16
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As with so many things, regret can begin as something natural, even beneficial, as you struggle to recover from a wound in your past. But over time, regret can devolve from a sadness to a sickness.

  9. Today is the Birthday of Light

    book
    01/06/16
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    A star appears in the East. A spotlight over its Creator. A single constellation bows over that Light of Light from whom darkness flees.

  10. A Tree Decorated with Tears: The Dark Side of Christmas Is Why Christmas Exists

    book
    12/04/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As I remember these stories of the other side of Christmas—where it’s not a wonderful life, where there’s no joy to the world, where silent nights are interrupted by screams and sobs and cursing and gunshots—I remember that this other side of Christmas is precisely why there is a Christmas in the first place.

  11. Building Towers of Babel to the Glory of God

    book
    10/13/15
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Here’s what lurks beneath this seemingly righteous behavior: they wanted to make a name for themselves, these tower-builders.

  12. Forgive Us Our Good Works

    book
    09/24/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Good people like fist-pounding on the pulpit about the bad things that bad people do in this bad world of ours. It makes them feel better about themselves.
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