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14 mins read|03/30/24The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
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15 mins read|08/04/22On Saturday, July 16, Luke Gabriel Bird died in a hiking accident in Chile. He was a midshipman in the United States Naval Academy. He is our son. Here are some reflections on his life, his faith, and his Lord.
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2 mins read|05/14/22When God changed Jacob’s name to Israel, thereafter his story was linked into as God’s story. Psalm 8 speaks of the human being, as humanity, but also of Christ.
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15 mins read|01/07/22Viewing the Word as a unified theological narrative prevents us from treating the Scriptures like a cage match between competing theological systems, with prophets duking it out with apostles, and psalmists with evangelists, all supposedly fighting for their voice to be heard.
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12 mins read|04/03/21Tomorrow Jesus will laugh his way out of the tomb, spit in the face of death, and kick the devil in the throat as he dances to the clapping glee of angelic masses. But today he just rests.
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11 mins read|03/03/20When talking about God’s ultimate destination for us, we’ve grown sloppy in our language, nearsighted in our gaze, and un-Easter in our hope. We act and speak as if dying and going to heaven is what the faith is all about. It is most emphatically not.
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7 mins read|04/20/19Jesus didn’t simply vacate the tomb to end death. He brought up from that grave the seeds of a brand new start at life. Genesis 1 all over again, with no chance of Genesis 3.
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5 mins read|03/31/18Come to the feast where evil and good, wise and foolish, shameful and shaming are welcomed as citizens of the kingdom.
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9 mins read|09/09/17The only churches that live are churches that have died. That still die. And that rise to newness of life in Christ’s life alone.
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11 mins read|04/15/17This is the night from when all those nights receive their light. For this is the night when Christ, the Life arose from the dead.
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11 mins read|03/26/16“Why do you seek the living One among the dead?” the angel asked the two women. The time for Jesus to die has passed.
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5 mins read|12/16/15He has Israel right where he wants them: a body of water in front of them, their enemies behind them, and God above them, ready to save. Our Lord is always undoing us that he might redo us, killing us that he might enliven us.
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