TOPIC INDEXVocation (82)

  1. Meeting God in the Delivery Room

    book
    10/24/19
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Our very lives as parents and children implicitly proclaim this higher and lovely truth: we have no value to God based upon our usefulness.

  2. Uncoupled: Divorce and the Crooked Road to Recovery

    book
    09/24/19
    15 mins
    By Chad Bird
    One of the first steps in recovering from a broken marriage is to find ways to heal the divorce that’s happened within our own souls.

  3. Does Jesus Really Want Us to Hate Our Family? The Hebrew Background of Luke 14:26

    book
    09/06/19
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird

  4. The Escape from a Religious Sodom

    book
    07/18/19
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In this religious Sodom, we had a Jesus with the heart of Moses whose gospel was a new and improved law.

  5. “Train up” or "Dedicate"? The Hebrew Gem in Proverbs 22:6

    book
    07/16/19
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As important as the training of your children is, much more important is handing them over to God—from the very beginning, from infancy, and beyond.

  6. God Doesn't Care What You Do for a Living

    book
    04/21/19
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    There is no perfect, divinely chosen, just-waiting-for-you-to-figure-it-out job for you. The Lord will use you to serve others in whatever vocation you choose. You’re not only his child but his priest. So, wherever you work, there is your altar.

  7. Forgiving Others Is Not All About You: When Forgiveness Mutates into Self-Help

    book
    01/28/19
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Just as we believe ourselves to be forgiven because God sees us in Christ, so to forgive others is to see them as God sees them in Christ. To forgive, in other words, is to put God’s eyes in our eyes and our eyes in God’s eyes.

  8. A Cynic Walks into a Church

    book
    11/08/18
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The more that we hear the law, the more we recognize others as those who, like us, are torn and tattered by the wounds of sin and brokenness.

  9. Our Retribution Shrines: Why Forgiving Others Hurts Like Religion

    book
    08/25/18
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For on the other side of the death of forgiveness is the resurrection of joy. An easter in which we emerge from the tomb in the arms of the man whose scars glow with mercy.

  10. Marriage Is Settling for the Okayest Spouse

    book
    08/06/18
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Marriage is the ideal school in which to learn that we are not the center of the universe. We’re not created to live for ourselves. We find our true humanity only when we live for other people.

  11. No, Kids, You Can't Be Anything You Want to Be

    book
    07/31/18
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Rather than telling our children, “You can be anything you want to be,” let’s tell them, “Be the best possible servant you can be.”

  12. The Birth of Childhood: How Jesus Revolutionized Our Understanding of Children

    book
    07/22/18
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Jesus comes to pop our bubbles of pride, implode our towers of vanity, expose our arrogant adulting ways, and brings us down, down, down. Down to his level, which is the level of crucifixion.
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