Many Christians have been taught that spiritual maturity means becoming less and less ourselves. But Scripture paints a different picture. God isn’t trying to erase your humanity—he’s restoring it. The goal isn’t none of you; it’s all of you, renewed in Christ.
Yahweh has a special interest in telling salvation stories. When all of humanity had fallen into total corruption and Noah was the only person left that God had hope in, God saved him through a “tebah”—the Hebrew word we translate as “ark.” This tebah would carry Noah safely through the flood waters, sparing him from…
There’s a scene in C.S. Lewis’, “The Silver Chair,” where the main characters go beneath the earth and run into a witch who tries to enchant them with lies. Under the power of her spell, they are nearly convinced that everything they’ve known is a falsehood. There is no such thing as a sun—they’ve just…
I serve on a local coalition called Drug Free Jackson. About a month ago they asked for help running an online conference via Zoom called the Advancing Behavioral Health Summit. I agreed to help out and I’m so glad I did as I was asked be the zoom host for Danielle Crosby’s meeting, “Survivor Strong.”…
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Sometimes we miss what the Bible is saying because we tend to read it in short bursts of verses and passages, rather than read any of its 66 books straight through or in large portions. For example, if you read Matthew in a few sessions, you’ll see the hilarious story of, “The Dim-Witted Disciples Forgot…
While God knows all things, he still likes to co-labor with us. The Bible shows us that he even does this with heavenly beings. In 1 Kings 22, when God decides that it’s time for an evil king to go, he asks the heavenly host how he should do it. Eventually an angel proposes an…
The Bible is always cultural as God speaks to people in their culture and not in the vacuum of it. And so when we read it, we need to keep in mind that the Bible was written “for us,” but not “to us.” It was written for us to read, but not directly to the…
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul tells women they need to wear head coverings for two reasons: (1) “Because of the angels,” and (2) because long hair is a woman’s glory. On the other hand, long hair for men is a disgrace and they are supposed to have short hair. What on earth is going on…
According to Deuteronomy 32:8, when God split the nations up at the Tower of Babel, he granted some of the beings of Heaven that he had created to rule over the different nations of the world while he turned his attention to the nation Israel. Had these little-g-gods done their job rightly, they would have…
Today is a day of resurrection! Not a day where Jesus simply came back to life as though resuscitated, but a day in which Jesus was given a new spiritual/physical and immortal body that sometimes wasn’t recognized by his own disciples; could seemingly warp around different areas at will and vanish in and out of…
Jamin Bradley 