TOPIC INDEXRepentance (46)

  1. I Am Not Unbroken

    book
    01/05/15
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I thought I had it all together. I had my life figured out. Even though outwardly I was serving God, inwardly I served only the god named Ego. My heart was the shrine at which I bowed the knee.

  2. My Secret Struggle with Atheism: Seeking Answers to the Wrong Questions

    book
    01/03/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    That’s what I mean when I say that I’ve struggled with atheism. And still do. The suffering me becomes the questioning me who becomes the doubting me who becoming the unbelieving me.

  3. The Death of the Sons of David

    book
    11/06/14
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Yet as we mourn, but unlike those who have no hope, so also we repent, but unlike those who have no absolution. For we though we weep, there is a hand that dries all tears.

  4. The Radical Path to Self-Discovery: Finding Your True Self in Death

    book
    08/26/14
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I didn’t know it, in fact I consciously rejected it, but the truth is that throughout those years, both in times of success and failure, God was up to something.

  5. Go, Old Man, and Sin No More

    book
    06/20/14
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    My life will be unwritten, erased by the hand of mortality. And fool that I am, I stand here threatening to snuff out the life of a woman caught in the act which I have acted out in my heart with a thousand women.

  6. Struggling to Un-Love Ex-Sins: A Long Repentance in the Same Direction

    book
    06/10/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The entire life of believers is one of repentance.

  7. Why I Don't Want to Go Back in Time Anymore

    book
    04/22/14
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The thing is, not only is fixing our past impossible; who’s to say we wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes? In fact, who’s to say we wouldn’t make matters even worse?

  8. A Tale of Two Sodoms: The Difficulty of Escaping from Our Past

    book
    01/27/14
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It shows the extent to which an environment of iniquity can seep into the souls of believers, transforming them from the inside out, so that even when they “flee to the mountains,” like Lot and his girls, they take Sodom with them.

  9. "I Would Have Surrendered My Bethlehem Hotel Room to Mary and Joseph" and Other Self-Serving Fantasies

    book
    12/19/13
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    But when I let my mind go there, in truth all I’m doing is this: bellying up to the bar of sentimentality to drink my fill of falsehoods that leave me intoxicated with feelings of saintly superiority.

  10. The Uncivilized Baptist: Why John Beckons Us to the Wilderness

    book
    12/09/13
    16 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Why does John make you uncomfortable? You know. It’s not just the clothing; it’s not only the hair; it’s not even really the diet. John the Baptist is uncivilized—that’s the problem.

  11. God Doesn't Celebrate Thanksgiving: A Turkey Day Reflection

    book
    11/26/13
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Eat, yes, but season your turkey with the ashes of repentance as it preaches just how little your faith is, just how little you trust God, just how little you believe the Father is good to you.

  12. Norman Rockwell's Nightmare: The Screwed Up Biblical Family

    book
    11/22/13
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    There is no whitewashing of evil within the biblical family. The sheer fact that it is recorded, that of all the events in these people’s lives, these were chosen to be chiseled into the stone of the church’s remembrance, tells us something.
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