TOPIC INDEXSalvation (89)

  1. That's a Good Question: Once Saved, Always Saved?

    book
    07/12/21
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The acquisition of salvation, the giving of salvation, and the keeping of salvation are entirely dependent upon the Savior himself.

  2. Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14

    book
    02/19/21
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We cannot scan any random passage of Scripture and automatically assume the words are unconditionally addressed to us. Often, very often, they are not.

  3. Baptized for War: The Baptism of Jesus Launched His Battles with Evil in the Wilderness and Beyond

    book
    01/04/21
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird

  4. Has Anyone Seen Jesus? The Disappearance of Jesus and His First Words as a Wise Twelve-Year-Old in the Temple

    book
    12/28/20
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird

  5. Why Did God Add Fish to His Diet?

    book
    01/15/20
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Throughout the Old Testament, the seas and fish were symbols of the Gentiles. When Jesus ate fish, and called fishermen, he showed us that the mission to the Gentiles was about to begin in earnest.

  6. The Bible Summed up in Nine Words

    book
    09/03/19
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    “Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.” Those nine words could serve as the Bible’s subtitle.

  7. We Are More Than the Skeletons in Our Closet

    book
    04/25/19
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Infamy allows us the opportunity to hone one of our favorite skills: to shrink a 343-page life story down to a single paragraph that narrates what happened on one day, at a certain hour, and in a certain location. We can whittle an entire biography down to a single Tweet.

  8. Unwrapping Four Hebrew Words Before Christmas

    book
    12/05/18
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As the church gathers in worship, however, different words reverberate in readings, hymns, and homilies. These words beckon us to get dirty.

  9. Waking Up as a Dragon

    book
    11/01/18
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Thank God for heroes: they inspire us to be better, to help others, to live and work for the good of our race. And thank God for villains, too: they incarnate our shadow side, our nocturnal soul, the dragon within us that must incessantly have its throat slit on the altar of repentance.

  10. Our Fingerprints Are All Over the Crimes of the World

    book
    09/25/18
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The Christian sees himself or herself as one just as guilty as the rest of the world. But we see ourselves not just as what’s wrong with the world, but in the One by whom the world has been redeemed.

  11. Satan’s Two Favorite Lies

    book
    09/20/18
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Jesus cuts right to the chase when it comes to the evil one. He calls the devil “a liar and the father of lies,”

  12. How to Become a Very Bad Person

    book
    08/19/18
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Don’t say you’re beyond hope, for there is not one beyond God. Don’t say you’ve done too much evil, for there is no wrong bigger than God’s heart of forgiveness.
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