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9 mins read|07/09/24This is an excerpt from the Chapter 12 of Hitchhiking with the Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament written by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2024). Now available!
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2 mins read|10/17/19An annual three day event, designed to center your faith in Christ for you, based in the Scriptural truths rediscovered in the Reformation.
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7 mins read|08/04/19It 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.
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9 mins read|12/01/18There’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.
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17 mins read|08/27/18This is the fifth installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 9 and 10 by Caleb Keith.
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6 mins read|03/24/18God’s telling a joke. And after we’re done laughing at this silly divinity, we realize that the true joke is on us.
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11 mins read|09/14/17There’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.
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9 mins read|06/01/17This coming Sunday churches around the world will celebrate the big, splashy day of Pentecost. As well they should.
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11 mins read|09/10/15Ultimately, 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.
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10 mins read|06/09/15His glory is made known precisely in the cross, His strength in weakness, His wisdom in folly, His exaltation in humiliation.
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11 mins read|01/20/15Case 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.
