TOPIC INDEXPreaching (24)

  1. Pastors Don't Always Want to Go to Church Either

    book
    02/28/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For many, there are days when they’re as excited about going to work on Sunday morning as you are about going to work on Monday morning.

  2. Preaching from a Wheelchair: Dan Chambers and the Unhandicapped Gospel

    book
    11/29/15
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Dan reminded me—in his words, in his patient suffering, through his unwavering faith in Christ, by his confidence in his baptism—that Jesus Christ does not abandon his own. No matter where they are, no matter what they’re going through, He is there.

  3. The Best Time for a Pastor to Yawn During Worship

    book
    11/25/15
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What if, while we were admitting all these serious infractions of the divine law, our pastor simply yawned?

  4. A Sinning Church with a Preaching Problem

    book
    11/18/15
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We are a sinning church with a preaching problem.

  5. We All Show up Late for Church

    book
    11/05/15
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When we begin singing the opening hymn, our voices blend with those of angels in heaven, who have been belting out hymns long before we rolled out of bed that morning.

  6. Preachers with Soiled Resumes

    book
    01/20/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Case in point: Jonah. Calling this man to be a prophet makes about as much as sense as hiring an executioner to be the CEO of a hospital.

  7. Please Don’t Say These Six Things at My Funeral

    book
    07/11/14
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Because I do care now, and will care even after I’m with the Lord, here are some things I hope and pray are not said at my funeral. I care about those who will be there, about what they will hear.

  8. The Parable of Lazarus and the Poor Man

    book
    06/22/14
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Seeing, we do not see. Our eyes are busy deceiving us 24/7, like two liars sunk into our faces, calling black white and white black. To see God's work in our world, our eyes must retire and our ears labor overtime.

  9. Punching the Vicar in the Face: One of the Best Years of His Ministry

    book
    02/06/14
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Mr. Jones didn’t see fit to return the greeting. Or the smile. He stopped a few paces away and crossed his arms in front of his chest. “What do y’all want?”

  10. The Three Friends Who Sought to Kill Death: A Cautionary Tale for Preachers

    book
    10/16/13
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What is most remarkable about this tale is not how clever it is, but that the original storyteller was just as greedy as the three fictional young men were.

  11. "I Sure Hope SHE'S listening to this sermon!"

    book
    06/10/13
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    She against whom I preached, in her unexpected response actually “preached” to me three truths I have never forgotten.

  12. Vulnerability in the Pulpit

    book
    12/30/12
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    A few weeks ago, the pastor of my congregation did something in his sermon I’ve never heard a pastor do: he confessed a failure. He had once been ashamed of his brother, he admitted, and had acted in a way toward him that was not in keeping with love.