Chad Bird

09/26/2025

Friends, I have a special favor to ask!

On Tuesday, September 30, my new book on the Psalms, Untamed Prayers, officially releases. Some of you already have your copy, and others will receive it soon.

Here’s where I’d love your help: I’m looking for about 100 volunteers who will read through a several of the devotions right away and then leave a short review on Amazon. Even just a few sentences about what you enjoyed would mean the world. (And yes, those five stars really do help!)

Why it matters:

Early reviews make a huge difference in helping new readers discover the book.

Since devotionals are usually read slowly over months, reviews tend to come in gradually. A strong start will help more people see it right away.

If you’d like to be part of this “early review team,” just let me know in the comments. Your encouragement and support mean so much. Thank you for helping me share this book with others!

Here is the Amazon page: https://a.co/d/35CAbri

09/26/2025

🙏🏼 Every devotion will connect you to the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Just a few days left to preorder your copy at www.1517.org/shop

09/26/2025

Ezekiel's Gospel Covenant - Ezekiel 16. Head to www.1517.org/oneyear for the reading guide and to catch up on previous posts from the Bible in One Year series. Happy Studying!

09/26/2025

Have you heard the story of a baby girl left to die, unwanted and abandoned? Someone came and rescued her. He cared for her, raised her, and in time married her. He lavished her with gifts, clothed her in beauty, and she became renowned.

And how did she respond to such love? With faithfulness? With gratitude? No. She murdered their children. She prostituted herself to countless others, even paying them for the privilege.

Have you heard of her? If you have read Ezekiel 16, you have. She is Israel.

God made her his own. He cared for her. Wed her to himself. Made her resplendent. And she—to use the graphic language of Ezekiel—“spread [her] legs…to anyone who passed by” (16:25). That is, she committed idolatry, spiritual adultery, with gods galore.

Only when we feel the raw horror of this betrayal can we grasp the shock of what comes next: God does not cast her off forever.

Instead, the Lord promises a new and everlasting covenant. He will atone for her sins. He will go to any lengths to save her.

That, my friends, is what God has done for us in Christ.

We who are unfaithful? Yes.
We who have polluted ourselves? Yes.
We who deserve his wrath? Yes.

For us, by grace, it has been done. Jesus did it all. To him alone belong all praise and glory.
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We read Ezekiel 16 today in Bible in One Year. For more information, visit https://www.1517.org/oneyear

09/25/2025

Do you feel hopeless? Pray these Psalms with us.

09/25/2025

Jesus Hates Death - John 11. Dive into the Bible in One year series at www.1517.org/oneyear for the reading guide and to catch up on previous posts.

09/25/2025

09/24/2025

09/24/2025

I wholeheartedly commend this article to you.

The world takes notice when Christians forgive because such forgiveness seems impossible.

09/24/2025

"As you meditate on the psalms and pray them with Christ, I trust your soul will be nourished." - Justin Perdue

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09/24/2025

Exiled God - Ezekiel 11. Head to www.1517.org/oneyear for the reading guide and to catch up on previous posts from the Bible in One Year series. Happy Studying! God - Ezekiel 11. Head to www.1517.org/oneyear for the reading guide and to catch up on previous posts from the Bible in One Year series. Happy Studying!

09/24/2025

Pay careful attention to where the glory of God goes in the opening chapters of Ezekiel. If you are reading through the Bible with me, you will see in those early chapters that Ezekiel has a vision of terrible idolatry taking place in the temple of the Lord.

Because of this ritual pollutions, the glory of God departs.

The glory of God lifts up, goes to the threshold, and then exits the temple. The Lord departs to the east, to the mountain directly opposite the temple, which is the Mount of Olives.

God’s temple has been vacated by God.

But then, toward the end of Ezekiel, in chapter 43, the glory of God returns. It comes from the east, from the Mount of Olives, and enters back into the temple.

Now take that story from Ezekiel, where the glory of God exits and returns, and read it in light of the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.

Who is Jesus? He is the glory of God embodied. “The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, and we have seen his glory” (John 1:14).

In Jesus, we see God’s glory revealed. As the glory of God, he rides into Jerusalem from the east, from the Mount of Olives, and then enters into the temple itself.

The glory of God has returned to Jerusalem, and that glory is Jesus Christ, the glory of God in the flesh for us.