TOPIC INDEXTheology of the Cross (10)
  1. book
    10/17/19
    2 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis Scott Keith Loso Delwyn Campbell David Zahl Jared C. Wilson Elyse Fitzpatrick Jessica Thompson Jim Nestingen Valerie Thur Cindy Koch Donavon Riley Chad Bird Steven Paulson Daniel Emery Price
    An annual three day event, designed to center your faith in Christ for you, based in the Scriptural truths rediscovered in the Reformation.

  2. What Can the Church Do in Times of Violence?

    book
    08/04/19
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It is a strange irony, but in a world drunk on violence, it is only on the cross of violence that there is hope for peace in our world.

  3. Why You Should Never Throw a Party for God

    book
    12/01/18
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    There’s no watch on the Lord’s wrist. No iPhone in the back pocket of his blue jeans. He did create time; it was his idea. But for him “the right time” is never our time. From our perspective, he’s either way too early or—more usually—way too late.

  4. Theses 9-10: The Dead, the Deadly and the Righteous

    book
    08/27/18
    17 mins
    By Chad Bird
    This is the fifth installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 9 and 10 by Caleb Keith.

  5. Why Today Is the Funniest Sunday of the Year

    book
    03/24/18
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    God’s telling a joke. And after we’re done laughing at this silly divinity, we realize that the true joke is on us.

  6. Two Ways to Improve the Cross

    book
    09/14/17
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    There’s something very attractive about both the cross-ladder and the cross-crutches. In fact, there’s something about both of them that the woodworker within us finds eminently more appealing than the simple cross of Jesus.

  7. The Shanty Christ Across the Tracks

    book
    06/01/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    This coming Sunday churches around the world will celebrate the big, splashy day of Pentecost. As well they should.

  8. The Nameless Little Girl Who Changed a General's Life

    book
    09/10/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Ultimately, the lie we have believed is that God is like we are. He is not. Thank God that he is not. He is the Lord who reverses all our expectations.

  9. What Is the Theology of the Cross?

    book
    06/09/15
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    His glory is made known precisely in the cross, His strength in weakness, His wisdom in folly, His exaltation in humiliation.

  10. Preachers with Soiled Resumes

    book
    01/20/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Case in point: Jonah. Calling this man to be a prophet makes about as much as sense as hiring an executioner to be the CEO of a hospital.