TOPIC INDEXPolitics (6)

  1. Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14

    book
    02/19/21
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We cannot scan any random passage of Scripture and automatically assume the words are unconditionally addressed to us. Often, very often, they are not.

  2. Hold on Loosely to Your Politics

    book
    01/14/21
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Want to do yourself, your family, your friends, and the world a good deed? Hold on loosely to your politics. Don’t drop it. Don’t toss it aside. Don’t privatize it. But, above all, don’t hold on to your politics as if your life, your soul, and your salvation depend on it.

  3. The Church's Wisdom in the Voting Booth

    book
    10/12/20
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We step into the voting booth with one foot on the outside. We are Americans, to be sure, but we are much more. We are citizens of the kingdom of God, over which the King of kings reigns supreme. Our time here is temporary. We are resident aliens in a land destined for a fiery destruction. Our allegiance is to Christ.

  4. Pigs, Politics, and Christ the Comedian

    book
    05/04/19
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We do not, as followers of Jesus, put any hope or place any trust in “princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation” (Ps. 146:3).

  5. Hillary's Emails: Collective Anger and a Scandalous Kingdom

    book
    07/06/16
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It’s a miracle anyone believes the Gospel. It goes against everything else we believe in.

  6. Smut and Smug: Secret Religious Delight in Society’s Moral Degradation

    book
    02/24/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I think the chief reason that a faction within me welcomes the disintegration of the American ethos is this: it makes me feel so much better about myself. The smut makes me quite smug.