TOPIC INDEXRepentance (46)

  1. "What a Foe We Have in Jesus"

    book
    01/15/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    God’s Son is infinitely more than our fragile egos have flattened him out to be.

  2. The Danger and Delight of Happiness

    book
    08/17/16
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In happiness, we dare never forget that it is Christ, and Christ alone, who has restored our joy.

  3. We Need Less Goliath and More Bathsheba

    book
    06/10/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I became like God’s child David, whom the Lord pardoned of his adultery and murder. I became like Noah, Abraham, Judah, Aaron, Gideon, and so many more wayward children.

  4. New Life Begins in the Dark

    book
    03/01/16
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We spend the first nine months of our lives in utter darkness. There are no tiny fluorescent bulbs beaming from the ceiling of the womb, no fetal flashlights, not even a pinprick of illumination.

  5. Our Precious Sins We Don't Want God to Forgive

    book
    02/21/16
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We hang on to our sins not despite the fact that they hurt, but precisely because they do hurt. We need to hurt, to fret over them, to cry over them, to make amends over them, because by doing so, we will grease the wheels of God’s forgiveness.

  6. Hurts So Good: Our Dirty Little Secret on Ash Wednesday

    book
    02/08/16
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What is really good for the soul is not so much confession as absolution. If confession is us telling the truth about ourselves to God, then absolution is God telling us a truer truth about ourselves.

  7. The Importance of Shutting Up

    book
    02/02/16
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When God is at work, oftentimes the best activity is non-activity, the best speech is non-speech. Sometimes God wants us to shut up.

  8. The Religion of Regret

    book
    01/23/16
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As with so many things, regret can begin as something natural, even beneficial, as you struggle to recover from a wound in your past. But over time, regret can devolve from a sadness to a sickness.

  9. Ill-Conceived: Pinpointing When Our Lives Went Wrong

    book
    01/02/16
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What is it about David’s life, and this psalm, that make this so fitting a place to utter this dire pronouncement of humanity’s corruption?

  10. The Plastic Jesus: Reshaping Christ to Meet Our Expectations

    book
    12/28/15
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Isn’t it strange how the Jesus we end up with bears such a striking resemblance to ourselves? Our Jesus thinks as we do, acts as we act, speaks as we speak.

  11. Meet the Righteous Man Who Couldn't Do Anything Right

    book
    09/03/15
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As it turns out, all finger-pointing amongst sinners is in vain. Every transgressor just happens to screw up a little differently than you do.

  12. The Story of Sodom Is About Much More than Homosexuality

    book
    08/18/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In the rest of the Scriptures, Sodom and Gomorrah became emblematic of cities, nations, and indeed a world that steadfastly refuses to believe in the God of mercy and truth and justice, and instead follow their own hearts.
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