TOPIC INDEXMinistry of the Church (148)

  1. Christianity Is Not About a Personal Relationship with Jesus

    book
    04/26/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Christianity is not a solo endeavor. Not a private relationship between Jesus and me.

  2. The Church of Chicken Little

    book
    02/24/17
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    On a recurring basis, Christians spot news headlines that signal yet one more moral collapse in society, the growing paganization of the cultures in which we live, the spread of antipathy toward the faith.

  3. Christianity Is Not for Everyone

    book
    02/15/17
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The God who calls us to love our neighbor as ourselves will seem hopelessly out of touch with your insulated life of self-sufficiency.

  4. Keeping up with the Joneses' Church

    book
    01/29/17
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    A single, fifteen minute sermon that proclaims Christ and him crucified for you is more important than hundreds of hours of lectures by experts on revitalizing your ministry.

  5. John Chrysostom: The Preacher with a Golden Tongue

    book
    01/26/17
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.

  6. Birds in the Pulpit

    book
    01/11/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The preacher does not merely send out the raven. From the pulpit flies forth the dove of the Gospel.

  7. Christ's Bride Doesn't Need Botox

    book
    01/05/17
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Hers is not a beauty of breathtaking cathedrals, stained glass, or towering arches, but of a body.

  8. Baptism Foreshadowed in Old Testament Narratives

    book
    01/03/17
    83 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.

  9. Two Ways to Launch Your Career in the Self-Salvation Business

    book
    12/03/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Sometimes we try be the bad god, sometimes the good god, oftentimes a freaky hybrid of both. The result is the same: Jesus the savior just gets in our way.

  10. Gospel Phobia

    book
    11/30/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    If the devil took over a church, I suspect it would be bursting at the seams every Sunday, with smiling faces, clean noses, straight morals, conservative voting, institutional fidelity

  11. Six Words That Make All the Difference in the World

    book
    11/27/16
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In those waters we are nailed to his cross and washed out the door of his tomb. Within his wounds we safely hide.

  12. Showing Mercy to Former Ministers

    book
    11/16/16
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I don’t care why you left the ministry—moral failure, congregational politics, burnout, whatever—the Christ whom you proclaimed has not left you.
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