TOPIC INDEXMinistry of the Church (148)

  1. Joshua 5:1-15 (Episode 185)

    book
    10/04/19
    1 min
    By Chad Bird Daniel Emery Price
    Fear strikes the hearts of the people who witness the crossing of the Jordan and the commander of the LORD’S army shows up.

  2. David vs. Goliath: We're Teaching the Story All Wrong

    book
    08/28/19
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As we do in daily life, so we have done in our reading of the Bible: we have placed ourselves at the center, and Christ at the periphery.

  3. The Gospel According to Noah

    book
    04/15/19
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When Lamech named his newborn son Noah—which means “rest”—he said, “This one shall give us comfort from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed”

  4. So You Don't Like Your Pastor

    book
    03/14/19
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Pastors are built from the same stuff as everyone else. That’s good, and that’s bad.

  5. Riding Tandem Toward a Flourishing Life

    book
    02/16/19
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Our American ethos trumpets the ideal of the rugged individual who doesn’t need anyone else. But that’s not only a lie; it’s also the recipe for disaster.

  6. Forgiving Others Is Not All About You: When Forgiveness Mutates into Self-Help

    book
    01/28/19
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Just as we believe ourselves to be forgiven because God sees us in Christ, so to forgive others is to see them as God sees them in Christ. To forgive, in other words, is to put God’s eyes in our eyes and our eyes in God’s eyes.

  7. Is it OK for a Former Adult Film Producer to Serve Holy Communion?

    book
    01/17/19
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Some things, once they are deemed disgusting or contaminated, permanently carry that quality with them. These things are even thought to be “contagious,” negatively affecting whatever they come into contact with.

  8. Slaying Monsters in Church: Why Baptism Should be Rated R for Violence

    book
    01/11/19
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When people are baptized, time is transcended. They go back to the Jordan and the Jordan comes forward to them. In a single splash, or a single dunk, they enter the war.

  9. The Two Reasons Our Past Can Be Changed

    book
    10/07/18
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In Christ, God’s Son, yesterday, today, and tomorrow all collapse into one. He holds in himself everything from the beginning to the end of the world.

  10. Scandalous Church Stories Not Reported This Week

    book
    09/01/18
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Early in the church’s life, some Christians were dragged before the city authorities in Thessalonica and accused of “turning the world upside down,” (Acts 17:6). They were guilty as charged. They were turning the world upside down. Or, rather, they were putting the world right side up.

  11. How to Become a Very Bad Person

    book
    08/19/18
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Don’t say you’re beyond hope, for there is not one beyond God. Don’t say you’ve done too much evil, for there is no wrong bigger than God’s heart of forgiveness.

  12. Grace for the Disgraced: Showing Forgiving Mercy to Former Ministers

    book
    08/17/18
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Allegations (and in some cases, admissions) of adultery, addiction, and various forms of abuse have rocked worlds, shattered lives, broken hearts, ended marriages, and split churches. Each case is distinct, but all of them are tragic, scandalous, and destructive in one way, shape, or form.
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