Kirjahaku

Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places. In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.

In our age when the church can too often seem like a poor copy of the world, Chad Bird challenges us to reclaim the astounding originality of our ancient, backward faith. Where the world stresses the importance of success, Bird invites readers to embrace nine specific failures in the areas of our personal lives, our relationships, and the church. Why? Because what human wisdom deems indispensable is so often an impediment to our spiritual growth, and what it deems insignificant is so often essential to it.With compelling examples from the Bible and today, Bird paints an enticing picture of the counterintuitive, countercultural life that God wants for us. He helps readers delight in all of the ways that Jesus turned the world upside-down, allowing us to experience true freedom, not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.

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.

Unveiling Mercy will do just that—unveil how the mercy of God in the Messiah is spoken of from the very opening Hebrew word of the Bible, all the way to the closing chapter of Malachi. By the end of the year, you will have entered the Old Testament through 365 new doorways, looked with fresh eyes at old verses, and traced a web of connections all over the Scriptures that you've never spotted before. You'll begin to see what one person meant when he described Hebrew words as “hyphens between heaven and earth.” Reading the Bible in translation can be like “kissing the bride through the veil.” Each of these 365 devotions is crafted so as to lift that veil ever so slightly, to touch skin to skin, as it were, with the original language. You do not need to know anything about Hebrew to profit from these meditations. They are not written to teach you the language of Abraham, Moses, and Isaiah, but to give you a taste of their insights, to expose you to their eloquence, to laugh with them at their winking wordplays, to un-English their idioms, and—most importantly—to trace their trajectories all the way into the preaching of the Messiah and the writings of his evangelists and apostles.

Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of 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.

Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.

Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple. He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing. But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow Jesus. In his life we see our lives, our struggles, our failures, and most especially the God who loves us and chooses us as his own. As we explore his bio, from his wrangling in the womb with Esau to his death as an old man in Egypt, we will learn more about ourselves and the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah.

The God of heaven and earth is no tightfisted, miserly deity who leaves us starving for mercy and begging for crumbs of grace. He is lavish. He gives and gives, then just when we think he can't possibly have more for us, he heaps on still more. He formed all creation for us, his sons and daughters. He fills us with forgiveness and life in his Son, Jesus, who is love in the flesh. All we are and all we have is from him. What's more, using us as his hands and feet, the Spirit cares for those around us, even as they care for us. United by faith to our Father and by love to our neighbor, we live in the freedom that comes from Jesus, whose cup of salvation overflows into our lives.

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.

The Bible is not some dusty textbook, but a veritable circus of humanity, with high-soaring saints, back-talking donkeys, left-handed kingslayers, and all the glory and gore you can fit inside the big top of this biblical tent. And everywhere in this story is God who, in his wild and passionate love for humanity, is shepherding history toward the birth and ministry of Jesus the Messiah. Do you already have a good grasp of the Old Testament? Wonderful. This book will be an enjoyable review. Do you not know the difference between the Bible and The Hobbit? Also fine. This book will be a helpful map into unknown territory. By the time we’re done, you won’t know all the ins and outs of the story, but you will have a strong grasp of the major movers and shakers. We will sit shotgun with patriarchs and prophets. Each one will take us a little farther down the Old Testament road until we get to the goal: to Jesus, the one in whom the whole story finds fulfillment and meaning.

The Bible is not some dusty textbook, but a veritable circus of humanity, with high-soaring saints, back-talking donkeys, left-handed kingslayers, and all the glory and gore you can fit inside the big top of this biblical tent. And everywhere in this story is God who, in his wild and passionate love for humanity, is shepherding history toward the birth and ministry of Jesus the Messiah. Do you already have a good grasp of the Old Testament? Wonderful. This book will be an enjoyable review. Do you not know the difference between the Bible and The Hobbit? Also fine. This book will be a helpful map into unknown territory. By the time we’re done, you won’t know all the ins and outs of the story, but you will have a strong grasp of the major movers and shakers. We will sit shotgun with patriarchs and prophets. Each one will take us a little farther down the Old Testament road until we get to the goal: to Jesus, the one in whom the whole story finds fulfillment and meaning.

Misericordia sin velo harÁ precisamente eso: desvelar la manera en que se habla de la misericordia de Dios en el MesÍas desde la primera palabra hebrea de la Biblia, hasta llegar al Último capÍtulo de MalaquÍas. Al tÉrmino del aÑo, habrÁs entrado al Antiguo Testamento por 365 nuevas puertas, habrÁs visto antiguos versos con nuevos ojos, y habrÁs trazado una red de conexiones por toda la Escritura que nunca antes habÍas advertido. ComenzarÁs a ver a lo que se referÍa una persona cuando describiÓ las palabras hebreas como «guiones entre el cielo y la tierra». Leer la Biblia en una traducciÓn puede ser como «besar a la novia por sobre el velo». Cada uno de estos 365 devocionales estÁ elaborado con el fin de levantar ese velo muy ligeramente, tocar piel con piel, por asÍ decirlo, con el idioma original. No es necesario saber nada de hebreo para beneficiarse de estas meditaciones. No estÁn escritas para enseÑarte el idioma de Abraham, MoisÉs e IsaÍas, sino para darte una muestra de sus ideas, exponerte a su elocuencia, reÍr con ellos en sus ingeniosos juegos de palabras, para desespaÑolizar sus modismos, y, lo que es mÁs importante, para seguir sus trayectorias hasta la predicaciÓn del MesÍas y los escritos de sus evangelistas y apÓstoles.

El Dios del cielo y la tierra no es una deidad mezquina y avara que nos haga pasar hambre de misericordia y mendigar migajas de gracia. Él es generoso. Él no deja de dar, y en el momento que pensamos que ya no puede tener más para nosotros, amontona todaví a más. Él formótoda la creación para nosotros, sus hijos e hijas. Nos colma de perdón y vida en su Hijo, Jesús, quien es el amor encarnado. Todo lo que somos y todo lo que tenemos proviene de Él. Más aún, el Espíritu nos usa como sus manos y sus pies para cuidar a quienes nos rodean, a la vez que ellos nos cuidan a nosotros. Unidos a nuestro Padre por la fe, y a nuestro prójimo por el amor, vivimos en la libertad que viene de Jesús, cuya copa de salvación desborda hacia nuestras vidas.

Tu Dios es demasiado glorioso les recuerda a los lectores que, si bien una vida tranquila puede parecerle insulsa al mundo, Dios tiende a usar a las personas comunes y corrientes para llevar a cabo su labor más importante.Al final de cada capítulo, Chad Bird invita al lector a profundizar en la búsqueda de la vida fiel y ordinaria con preguntas de estudio para uso tanto personal como grupal.

Jacob pareciera ser cualquier cosa menos un discí pulo ejemplar. Es un hombre embustero, mentiroso, egoísta y ambicioso que tiene hijos con cuatro mujeres y lidera una familia disfuncional plagada de envidias y traiciones. Pero Jacob es también Israel, el homó nimo de la comunidad de Dios en el Antiguo Testamento, escogido y bendecido. Como tal, este santo pecador que cojea junto al Señor, agobiado por la debilidad y asediado por los problemas, es el fiel reflejo de todos los que seguimos a Jesús. En su vida vemos nuestras vidas, nuestras luchas, nuestros fracasos y muy especialmente al Dios que nos ama y nos escoge como suyos. Al examinar su biografía, desde su pendencia con Esaúen el vientre hasta su muerte en la vejez en Egipto, aprenderemos más acerca de nosotros mismos y el Dios que está con nosotros y por nosotros en Jesús el Mesías.

Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of 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.

Unveiling Mercy will do just that--unveil how the mercy of God in the Messiah is spoken of from the very opening Hebrew word of the Bible, all the way to the closing chapter of Malachi. By the end of the year, you will have entered the Old Testament through 365 new doorways, looked with fresh eyes at old verses, and traced a web of connections all over the Scriptures that you've never spotted before. You'll begin to see what one person meant when he described Hebrew words as "hyphens between heaven and earth." Reading the Bible in translation can be like "kissing the bride through the veil." Each of these 365 devotions is crafted so as to lift that veil ever so slightly, to touch skin to skin, as it were, with the original language. You do not need to know anything about Hebrew to profit from these meditations. They are not written to teach you the language of Abraham, Moses, and Isaiah, but to give you a taste of their insights, to expose you to their eloquence, to laugh with them at their winking wordplays, to un-English their idioms, and--most importantly--to trace their trajectories all the way into the preaching of the Messiah and the writings of his evangelists and apostles.

La Biblia no es un libro aburrido. Es un verdadero circo humano, lleno de santos valientes, profetas intensos, reyes zurdos que matan con estilo, asnos que hablan, y todo el drama, la gloria y el caos que puedas imaginar.Y en el centro de todo est Dios: apasionado y sorprendente. Un Dios que con amor inquebrantable guia la historia hacia su cl max definitivo: el nacimiento y ministerio de Jes es, el Mes as. Ya conoces bien el Antiguo Testamento? Perfecto Este libro ser una lectura divertida y refrescante. Conoces la diferencia entre la Biblia y El Hobbit? Este libro es un mapa claro y entretenido para explorar un territorio nuevo sin sentirte perdido.A lo largo del recorrido, no memorizar s cada detalle, pero s conocer s a los personajes m s importantes - patriarcas, profetas y protagonistas divinos - que te llevar n paso a paso hasta el gran desenlace.Viajae a dedo con los profetas es una gran narrativa del Antiguo Testamento, con un estilo accesible, divertido y profundamente b blico. Este libro te llevar de la mano a trav s de momentos clave del pueblo de Dios.

Untamed Prayers by Chad Bird is a book that will take you out of your spiritual comfort zone. As you read, you'll learn to leave behind the boring, predictable prayers and dive into ones full of praise, despair, joy, and lament. The Psalms cover all parts of life--the good times and the tough ones--and what better way to find the right words to say to God than the very prayers he gave us to pray? But there's something special about this book: Chad Bird shows how these ancient prayers are connected to Jesus as you go through the Psalms. You'll discover that you're not just talking to God by yourself; Jesus is right there with you, praying alongside you. This is a book that helps you feel that closeness, freeing you to speak to the Father with complete honesty. If you're looking for a prayer life that is anchored in the words and works of Jesus, Untamed Prayers is the perfect guide for this journey.

Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of 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.