TOPIC INDEXThe Law (22)

  1. Will Believers Be Judged? Thoughts from the Weirdest Parable Jesus Told

    book
    09/15/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We fly away to the judgment seat of God. There we shall appear before the One who knows all, before whom nothing is hidden. Do you really think you can conceal anything from Him?

  2. Nice, France, and the Heart of the Human Problem

    book
    07/15/16
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Dear church, do not get sidetracked. This is about far more than terrorism, racism, gun ownership, and the like. This is about the evil of the human heart.

  3. Most Religions Do Lead to the Same God

    book
    12/30/15
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The biblical witness is clear: all the so-called gods and lords and idols who are the object of people’s devotion, to whom they offer their sacrifices, to whom they pray, whom they call God and Lord, are sadly nothing but a front for the father of lies.

  4. When the Pulpit Apes the World

    book
    06/30/15
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The more law-centered a church becomes, the more it and the world become kissing cousins.

  5. Called and Ordained Sheriff of the Word

    book
    04/28/15
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What is most amazing to me is not that Jesus welcomed public transgressors into his company. What astounds me is that they came to him with the full expectation of not being turned away.

  6. The Green-Eyed Monster: Putting Jealousy in its Place

    book
    09/17/14
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It’ll eat you alive, won’t it? We begin to think we’re victims, as if the whole world is conspiring against us to deprive us of what we deserve.

  7. I'll Teach You the Whole Law While Standing on One Foot

    book
    06/03/14
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We have violated not that of which we are ignorant, but that of which we are fully aware. If you want proof, simply look at how well we attempt to cover up our evil deeds.

  8. What's So Wrong with a Golden Calf? What Happens When We Make Our Own Ways to God

    book
    05/12/14
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    So the law was shattered, our icon was becoming urine and dung inside our guts, and lots of bloody corpses littered our camp. All this because we decided that it was okay for us to choose how we approach God.

  9. Tripping Helen Keller

    book
    02/19/14
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Why, given all the things we wish God had told us, but didn’t, does he “waste our time” by stating the patently obvious? Was there, in Moses’ day, an outbreak of violence against the disabled?

  10. “Still in the Loins of His Father”: Who Were You Before You Were Conceived?

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    01/23/13
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    If I am so bound up in the history of the first man, all the way back at the dawn of creation, how can I not also be bound up in the more recent history of my family?