TOPIC INDEXThe Lord's Supper (18)

  1. The Blind, Demented Woman Who Introduced Me to Myself

    book
    05/01/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As I peer back over the years between the me-then and the me-now, I see one striking similarity. I am always a man who forgets who he really is, because I’m always focused on becoming the man I want others to think I am.

  2. What Would You Want for Your Last Meal?

    book
    04/12/14
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I am lord of all I eat. I lord it over meat, potatoes, pecan pie. I make those foods serve my body, transforming them into me. But it is not so with the meal of Jesus.

  3. Chewing on the Bible

    book
    01/09/14
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    But unlike fish, there was actual pleasure in the prolonged chewing of this food. For the longer it remained in my mouth, the better it tasted, the more pronounced became its flavor, the more nourishment I received from each bite. This food is the bread on which Jesus survived during his forty days of temptation in the wilderness.

  4. The Angels Carry a Concealed Weapon: A Sermon on St. Michael and All Angels

    book
    09/24/13
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Their tongue is our shield, for the weapon of angels is the word of their Lord. Revelation 12 says Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon and his angels. And how did they overcome him? By the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

  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. The Divine Overachiever: What Happens When God Mans Up

    book
    08/24/13
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Here is the truth: we have gained more in Jesus than we lost in Adam. We lost human perfection in the first man's fall. We gained perfect flesh-and-blood unity with God in his Son's incarnation.