TOPIC INDEXPrayer (24)

  1. I Don't Know How to Pray

    book
    09/23/17
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    How strange and yet how comforting: God prays to God for us, the Spirit to the Father. He sees through the fog of our emotions to what we truly need.

  2. What a Madman Taught Me About Prayer in Life's Chaotic Times

    book
    03/26/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    There’s some wild and untamed prayers in the psalms. But they’re fenced in by order, symmetry, predictability. They organize chaos. And they bring order and hope and stability to our chaotic lives.

  3. The Benefit of Having Enemies

    book
    01/24/17
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Yes, how good it is for you to have enemies, for without them, when would you ever have the opportunity to fulfill, joyfully and willingly, the law of Christian love?

  4. We Expect Too Little from God

    book
    08/03/16
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We shrink away from God’s godness and almightiness, and so shrink down our prayers. Perhaps it is a lack of faith. We don’t trust God to give what He himself has promised to give.

  5. Miracle on July 5

    book
    07/04/16
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Today, if you look closely at my left eye, you’ll see one tiny speck of powder embedded in the whiteness.

  6. 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.

  7. When the Psalms Pray Me

    book
    12/30/14
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Yes, I pray, but it is the Spirit who prays for me, in me, through me. I no more make up my own prayers than I made up the English language.

  8. Anniversary of a Dead Marriage: The Painful Lessons of Divorce

    book
    06/27/14
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Every year, when this day rolls around, I turn over the stones of remembrance that litter my mind, to see what lurks beneath.

  9. Dying to Pray

    book
    10/25/13
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The reason is much simpler than that: to learn to pray, you must first die. The language of prayer is taught in the school of death.

  10. 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).

  11. We Are All Beggars

    book
    05/10/13
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We need not look the part to elicit divine compassion. We need not be on our knees, face downcast, eyes watery, voice quivering, to make sure we get heaven’s attention. We need not play the beggar before God.

  12. How a Badger Taught Me That God Has Ears

    book
    11/28/12
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I didn’t pray for forgiveness, the Holy Spirit, or world peace. All this ten-year-old wanted was a badger. So that’s what I asked for.