Böcker av Chad Bird

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 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.

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.