TOPIC INDEXResurrection (18)

  1. How to Reach Your Full Human Potential

    book
    06/13/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    How will they reach this magical moment, this milestone on the journey of life? Perhaps by chasing their dreams, pursuing their passions with a heart wholly devoted to the attainment of whatever goals they set for themselves in life?

  2. What is That in My Casket?

    book
    04/09/14
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What we confess concerning a corpse confesses much about how deep, or how shallow, is our understanding of the importance of the incarnation of Jesus, his death, and his (as well as our own) resurrection.

  3. Clothing for the Naked Eye: Seeing Things as They Really Are

    book
    01/21/14
    15 mins
    By Chad Bird
    A cemetery is a hard place to confess because the cemetery itself seems to confess, “You, O mortal, have lost.”

  4. Nothing Gold Can Stay: The Sermons of Creation

    book
    10/08/13
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    But this dying world is still the world of our living God, who graces us with tokens of a final renewal. As leaf subsides to leaf, and frost to snow, and snow to ice, there comes a day when the gold of nature sprouts anew.

  5. The Truth About Cemeteries

    book
    09/05/13
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For out of the mouths of these opposition forces, gathered on enemy turf, comes the defiant declaration of death’s undoing: “Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed!” An audacious act it is, to march smack dab into the middle of a place that screams, “Dead!” and to sing, “Alive!”

  6. This Is the Night: An Easter Vigil Sermon

    book
    03/30/13
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    This is the night when the earth is formless and void; and the darkness of blood is over the face of Thy Son. And the Spirit of God moves out of His body as He gives up the Ghost.