TOPIC INDEXThe Cross (31)

  1. Golgotha’s Bizarre Hebrew Backstory

    book
    04/08/20
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    One key to unlocking the significance of Golgotha is found all the way back in Joshua--in a "round" Hebrew word, a bizarre story about reproach, and five kings hiding in a cave.

  2. The Preaching Thief on the Cross

    book
    11/20/19
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The kingdom of God is not a place, a thing, a concept, a philosophy, a spiritual force, or a state of being. The kingdom of God is a person.

  3. The Cross Before the Cross

    book
    03/09/19
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird

  4. Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People?

    book
    11/06/18
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We tell our children if they work hard and play by the rules, they’ll succeed in life. Jerks, cheaters, and thieves won’t. They’ll end up in the gutter. Or jail. Or worse.

  5. How to Prepare for the End of the World by Frying Bacon

    book
    08/12/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The love of God in Jesus is our confidence when the world seems to teeter on the brink of self-destruction.

  6. The Story of the Better-Than-Good Samaritan

    book
    07/10/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Attacked by sin, robbed by Satan, lacerated by death—there we lay, unable to help ourselves. Yet He helps us who can never help ourselves.

  7. Hillary's Emails: Collective Anger and a Scandalous Kingdom

    book
    07/06/16
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It’s a miracle anyone believes the Gospel. It goes against everything else we believe in.

  8. God's War Animal

    book
    06/14/16
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    No, when the Lord is ready for battle, of all creatures, he commissions Mary’s little lamb.

  9. Golgotha: The Place of Adam's Skull

    book
    03/24/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    That man you see on the tree—he is the re-Genesis of the world. He has come to remake us alive and free and beautiful on the Friday of his crucifixion.

  10. The Tragedy of Accomplishment

    book
    02/25/16
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Cindy’s tragedy was that she was blind to the Christ from whom all her good gifts came.

  11. Violence and the Church Go Way Back

    book
    12/02/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We are like the spoiled children of kings who spit in the face of paupers on the street. We have been given so much, yet we treasure so little.

  12. Six Words to Inscribe onto Your Heart

    book
    11/27/15
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    There has only been one baptism in the history of the world: the baptism of Jesus. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
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