TOPIC INDEXResurrection (18)

  1. Shrug Not at the Burial of Jesus

    book
    03/30/24
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.

  2. Reflections on the Death of Our Son

    book
    08/04/22
    15 mins
    By Chad Bird
    On Saturday, July 16, Luke Gabriel Bird died in a hiking accident in Chile. He was a midshipman in the United States Naval Academy. He is our son. Here are some reflections on his life, his faith, and his Lord.

  3. Psalm 8 Izzi Ray sings "We Carry Your Name"

    book
    05/14/22
    2 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When God changed Jacob’s name to Israel, thereafter his story was linked into as God’s story. Psalm 8 speaks of the human being, as humanity, but also of Christ.

  4. A Review of 'Figuring Resurrection' by Jeffrey Pulse

    book
    01/07/22
    15 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Viewing the Word as a unified theological narrative prevents us from treating the Scriptures like a cage match between competing theological systems, with prophets duking it out with apostles, and psalmists with evangelists, all supposedly fighting for their voice to be heard.

  5. God’s Sabbath Sleep: How Christ Filled in the Gap in the Creation Story

    book
    04/03/21
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Tomorrow Jesus will laugh his way out of the tomb, spit in the face of death, and kick the devil in the throat as he dances to the clapping glee of angelic masses. But today he just rests.

  6. I Can’t Wait to Get out of Heaven

    book
    03/03/20
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    When talking about God’s ultimate destination for us, we’ve grown sloppy in our language, nearsighted in our gaze, and un-Easter in our hope. We act and speak as if dying and going to heaven is what the faith is all about. It is most emphatically not.

  7. Easter is God's Great Yes to Earth

    book
    04/20/19
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Jesus didn’t simply vacate the tomb to end death. He brought up from that grave the seeds of a brand new start at life. Genesis 1 all over again, with no chance of Genesis 3.

  8. Come, You Strippers and Sunday School Teachers

    book
    03/31/18
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Come to the feast where evil and good, wise and foolish, shameful and shaming are welcomed as citizens of the kingdom.

  9. How Will Your Congregation Die?

    book
    09/09/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The only churches that live are churches that have died. That still die. And that rise to newness of life in Christ’s life alone.

  10. Tonight Is the Night of Light: An Easter Vigil Meditation

    book
    04/15/17
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    This is the night from when all those nights receive their light. For this is the night when Christ, the Life arose from the dead.

  11. He Will Easter You

    book
    03/26/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?” the angel asked the two women. The time for Jesus to die has passed.

  12. Rusting Chariots Found at the Bottom of Baptismal Fonts

    book
    12/16/15
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    He has Israel right where he wants them: a body of water in front of them, their enemies behind them, and God above them, ready to save. Our Lord is always undoing us that he might redo us, killing us that he might enliven us.
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