TOPIC INDEXPreaching (24)

  1. Index of Videos for Reading the Gospels through Hebrew Eyes

    book
    12/29/22
    60 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For almost three years, I have produced a weekly video in the series “Reading the Gospels through Hebrew Eyes.” Here is an index of all the Gospel readings covered so far, with links to their YouTube videos.

  2. Hashtag Preaching and Whack-a-Mole Worship

    book
    06/15/20
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When the direction of preaching is dictated by the hashtag issues of the day, the pulpit becomes the perpetual servant of CNN and Fox News. The news and social media cycle, with its chameleonic alterations from this all-important issue (this week) to that next-all-important issue (next week), does not create a rhythmic dance for the church but a sort of frenzied whack-a-mole worship. Now smack your homiletical hand down on this…now that…now this…now that. We need something better.

  3. Locking Preachers in the Pulpit

    book
    01/28/20
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The Spirit did not plant preachers in the pulpit to be pontificating moralists or political hacks or spiritualizing psychologists or motivational speakers.

  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. We Don't Need "Worship Options" on Sunday Morning

    book
    08/03/18
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The church is a home for the family of God. It’s not a mall, a café, a coffee shop, or Amazon. It’s where we usually don’t get what we want, but what we need.

  6. The Church Doesn't Need "Children's Church"

    book
    03/22/18
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In an age when families are already fractured beyond comprehension, are we seriously going to separate parents from children in the one service in which God himself is present to unite us to himself and one another?

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. God, You Lied to Me: A Pastor's Struggle

    book
    05/19/16
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    He has wandered away into the darkness of his doubting, got lost in his grief, confused by the pains he’s suffered. It happens. Shepherds sometimes become lost sheep as well.

  10. An Address to the Graduating Devils of Discordia Seminary

    book
    04/27/16
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Brothers, the rich and diverse education you have received has more than adequately prepared you for the ministry of temptation to which you have been called.

  11. The Cocktail of Worship and Doubt

    book
    04/19/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    But on the mountain in Galilee, where we encounter a very different side of God, doubts overtake us. Why?

  12. A High Feast Day for Failures and Fools

    book
    03/17/16
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    If you want to find God, he’s hiding in plain sight. Christ is in the very things that we would never select as a vessel befitting divinity.
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