TOPIC INDEXLove of God (53)

  1. Safe Preaching and the Prophylactic Gospel

    book
    08/14/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Jonah wanted nothing more than to be a safe preacher. His Lord could get carried away with love at times. He let it get the best of him.

  2. When God Drags His Feet

    book
    08/12/15
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For most of us, waiting on God is not funny at all. It makes us wonder if he cares. If he has forgotten us. In our darkest hours, many even wonder if the atheists are right, if our prayers are nothing more than sick words vomited into an empty heaven.

  3. Families in Turmoil

    book
    06/23/15
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    You may not believe it; you may even scoff at the claim, but here’s the truth: God hears your roar of pain on the other side of your silence. He counts every tear you let escape, or refuse to let go, from the ocean of anguish inside you.

  4. It's Okay to Pray for Oreos and Ice Cream at Breakfast

    book
    03/19/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What James really desired was to be beside his Lord Jesus. He wanted to sit not twelve seats away, not six, but smack-dab beside him.

  5. The Bible Story That Goes All Wrong

    book
    02/24/15
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    His reaction was totally wrong. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. When I’d finished confessing, he didn’t start yelling. Out of his mouth came words like forgiveness, grace, Christ, clean slate. He was saying all the wrong things.

  6. The Two Most Important Days in Your Life. And Why Mark Twain Was Wrong

    book
    10/15/14
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Your primary purpose in life is having something done to you. God created you in order that He might have someone to give to, to bless, to love, to nurture, to save, to give Himself to.

  7. "You Can Get Used to Damn Near Any Stink": Acclimating to Evil

    book
    09/03/14
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Have you ever found yourself looking back on a time in your life when you were thoroughly enmeshed in something wrong, and now you hardly recognize the person you were then?

  8. Do I Really Matter? Does My Existence Mean Anything?

    book
    08/19/14
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As I floated in the Gulf of Mexico, I spoke these truths, but it was not the waters or the heavens that needed to hear them.

  9. The Math of Mercy

    book
    07/03/14
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Paul is on a roll. He's adding up all the things that can separate you from the love of God in Jesus Christ. And the total? Nothing, zilch, zero.

  10. Call Me Lazarus...One Year Later

    book
    05/23/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I was angry at heaven, at earth, and everything in between, for my life and my love and my hopes had all gone wrong, terribly, irreversibly, wrong.

  11. "I Love You" is an Incomplete Sentence

    book
    03/14/14
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We love because we find in the beloved something that is lovable. We see, we know, and then we love. Or, at least, we promise to love.

  12. No-Man Remembered

    book
    12/12/13
    1 min
    By Chad Bird
    Today, and every day, he wears a crown and every angel in heaven knows him by name.
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