TOPIC INDEXIncarnation (27)

  1. What if God Were a Slob Like One of Us?

    book
    12/24/18
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    With her iPhone, Mary snapped a pic of Jesus in the manger, chose the Clarendon filter, and posted it to her Instagram account.

  2. The Number 666 and God's Christmas Math

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    12/13/18
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    If there’s a time of year to grasp the significance of this number, it’s now. Because the birth of Jesus casts light on the dark meaning of 666. And, most importantly, the birth of God’s Son is the death of that number’s power over us.

  3. Shocked by Hope in the R-Rated Book of God

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    11/23/18
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As we enter into this year’s Advent season, this blog is a part of our series on the hope we find in, through and given by Christ, Each week’s installment will look at hope from a different perspective with special emphasis on corresponding passages of Scripture.

  4. Celebrating Christmas in the Underworld

    book
    12/10/17
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    No one twisted Jesus’s arm to make him enter Mary’s womb. No one tricked him into being born into a world strung out on the meth of sin. He came in with his eyes wide open.

  5. When a Dragon Tried to Eat Jesus: The Nativity Story We Don't Talk About

    book
    12/17/16
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The dragon who failed to devour the child in the manger swallows the man atop the cross. In so doing, unbeknownst to this beast, he ate poison.

  6. Oh Happy Fall Into Sin!

    book
    12/11/16
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    He created us with an eye on recreating us. He made humanity in his image because one day he would assume that image. The Creator would become a creature while remaining Creator.

  7. 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.

  8. Two Pregnancies, One Hope

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    12/18/15
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The mother of this prophet is visited by the Mother of God. In the coming together of these two pregnant women, we see the coming together of the old and the new.

  9. Four Reasons Why the Virgin Mary Deserves More Attention Among Protestants

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    11/30/15
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Although I believe my Catholic friends say more of Mary than can be biblically justified, I also believe that many of my Protestant friends say less of Mary than the Bible demands.

  10. God Has a Mom

    book
    03/25/14
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It all started when out of the nothingness of Mary’s womb, the Word who makes all things, made for Himself a body, human through and through. From the virgin soil of Eden the first man came and from the virgin womb the last man came—came to re-genesis you.

  11. "Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate": The Fourth Commandment and the Creed

    book
    08/14/13
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When the angel told Mary she had become a mother, she replied simply, ''Let it be to me according to your word.'' Therein is a grateful acknowledgment that the Creator had formed life in her womb.

  12. Out of the Depths

    book
    05/21/13
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For since it was not enough that the Lord of heaven and earth hung on your every word, his Word was made flesh and prayed among us, a priest in the order of Melchizedek, “offering up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save Him from death,” (Heb 5:7).
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