It’s not uncommon in the gospels for Jesus to say something along the lines of, “Your faith has made you well.” These kinds of statements have led some ministers to blame sick people when they’re not healed. “If you only had more faith, it would happen,” they sometimes say. This is an oversimplification of healing…
I’ve got a simple, new ambient single out called “The Garden of Gethsemane.” Give it a listen wherever you stream music next time you’re praying or reading your Bible 🙂
When we read the story of the healing of the paralytic, our attention often gets caught up on the paralytic’s faith rather than on Jesus’ strange teaching on forgiveness that follows. Why did Jesus’ forgiving people sound so extreme to the religious leaders? And what does it mean that Jesus also told us that we…
As Dom always says: “Family.” And here’s a look at what God’s family looks like in our Nerd Church conversation tonight.
Jamin shelves his original message to talk about the Holy Spirit.
As odd as it may sound, some of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction seemed to write itself. They spent time piecing together images in their mind and incorporated dreams they had into their works to come up with stories like that of Narnia and Lord of the Rings. The Nerd Church crew discusses this…
Many Christians have a very negative view of skin. But in this Christmas message, Jamin talks about the goodness of skin and God’s redemption of it through God, who put on skin himself as Jesus.
Isaiah gives us a strange prophecy about a coming messiah who is also God. How does that work? Jamin takes a look into some of the wording to show us how the Christmas story fits Old Testament themes, bridged by Isaiah’s prophecy.
In our final episode on chaos creatures, we chat about Behemoth in the Bible, ancient culture, and his Scriptural application for today.
If you want to know who God is, you need to look at his Son, who is the clearest revelation of the Father. Once you’ve gotten to know his will and character, then the rest of the Bible starts to make sense and we begin to live as we should.
