Bøker av Chad Bird

Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with all sorts of strange rooms. The creation room, vast and sublime. The exodus room, with hardhearted pharaohs and dried-up seas. The war room, with bloody swords and crumbling walls. The tabernacle room, with smoking altars and dark inner sanctums. What does this odd and ancient world have to do with us, who are modern followers of Jesus? As it turns out, everything! Every chapter in the Old Testament, in a variety of ways, tells the story that culminates in Jesus the Messiah. What Christians today call the Old Testament is what Jesus and the earliest believers simply called the Scriptures. That was their Bible. From its pages, they taught about the Messiah''s divine nature, his priestly work, his ministry of salvation. The Christ Key will reintroduce readers to these old books as ever-fresh, ever-new testimonies of Jesus. By the end, you will see even Leviticus as a book of grace and mercy, and you will hear in the Psalms the resounding voice of Christ.

Leer el Antiguo Testamento puede parecer como explorar una antigua y misteriosa mansión, llena de toda clase de cuartos extraños. El cuarto de la creación, amplio y sublime. El cuarto del éxodo, con faraones de corazón empedernido y mares que se secan. El cuarto de la guerra, con espadas ensangrentadas y muros derribados. El cuarto del tabernáculo, con altares humeantes y un oscuro lugar santísimo. ¿Qué tiene que ver este curioso y antiguo mundo con nosotros los seguidores modernos de Jesús? ¡Resulta que tiene todo que ver! Cada capítulo del Antiguo Testamento, de variadas formas, cuenta la historia que culmina en Jesús el Mesías. Lo que los cristianos hoy llaman el Antiguo Testamento es lo que Jesús y los primeros creyentes llamaban las Escrituras. Esa era su Biblia. Desde sus páginas, ellos enseñaron acerca de la naturaleza divina del Mesías, su obra sacerdotal, su ministerio de salvación. Cristo, la llave presentará una vez más a los lectores estos antiguos libros como testimonios siempre frescos y novedosos de Jesús. Al terminar, aun Levítico te parecerá un libro de gracia y misericordia, y en los Salmos oirás la potente voz de Cristo.

Blogger, speaker, and Bible teacher invites readers to embrace the upside-down teachings of Jesus, where failure is success, endings are beginnings, and freedom is found only as we learn to fully submit.

Journeys that begin in brokenness rarely follow a straight road to healing. There are twists and turns--and setbacks--on the path of repentance. Night Driving tells the story of a pastor and seminary professor whose moral failures destroyed his marriage and career, left his life in ruins, and sent him spiraling into a decade-long struggle against God. Forced to fight the demons of his past in the cab of the semi-truck he drove at night through the Texas oil fields, Chad Bird slowly began to limp toward grace and healing. Drawing on his expertise as an Old Testament scholar, Bird weaves together his own story, the biblical story, and the stories of fellow prodigals as he peels back the layers of denial, anger, addiction, and grief to help readers come face-to-face both with their own identities and with the God who alone can heal them.