TOPIC INDEXHoly Spirit (31)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. I'm One of those Lukewarm Christians

    book
    03/26/15
    15 mins
    By Chad Bird
    On Sunday mornings, when I confess my sins, I say that “I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them.” But those adverbs are like two accusing fingers pointed at my less-than-heartily-sorry, less-than-sincerely-repentant heart.

  4. Episode 3

    book
    02/03/15
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird Daniel Emery Price
    Chad and Daniel discuss Sabbath and Sanctification.

  5. Drinking with the Dead: Country Music and the Communion of Saints

    book
    12/10/13
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The details vary, of course, but we too struggle to repair the heart broken by the tragic death of someone we love. We're dazed, angry, speechless.

  6. The Spirit of the Old and New

    book
    05/14/13
    1 min
    By Chad Bird
    The Spirit, who endowed the tabernacle architects with wisdom from on high, overshadows Mary's womb, the new holy of holies, where Wisdom is incarnate below.

  7. Why Christ Poured out the Spirit on Pentecost: The OT and Rabbinic Roots of Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks

    book
    05/14/13
    47 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Though the theophanic elements at the Jerusalem Pentecost were not as diverse as those at Sinai, there is one prominent commonality between the two: divine speech out of divine fire.