Jesus did not arrive safely, comfortably, or legally secure. He fled by night, crossed borders, and lived in fear of returning home—because a politician wanted him dead. The Gospel doesn’t leave us room to sanitize this reality. If how we treat refugees is how we treat Jesus, then the question isn’t whether Christ was a…
I first came across Michael Heiser’s work when looking for a Logos book on which to spend a gift card. I was quite thrown off by the description of his book, The Unseen Realm. Was there actually a Bible scholar who took the supernatural world seriously enough to risk their academic career on it? Yes.…
The creation mythology in Genesis is less about how God literally made the world and more about how God literarily made the world. Every ancient culture has stories about how their gods created the world, and each is meant to communicate something about the character of their divine being, what was important to them, the…
NEW EPISODE: In the Bible, the heart is responsible for just about everything in a person’s life. With this in mind, Jamin talks about the importance of ensuring one’s heart is focused on God. If it’s set off or influenced by other voices, it eventually will find itself in need of inner healing
I hopped into a 20-minute spontaneous moment during our worship this week. A decent amount of my lyrics came from reflecting on some of the material in David E. Fredrickson’s book, Eros and the Christ: Longing and Envy in Paul’s Christology. Hope you enjoy it! If you like long, spontaneous jams, I’ve released a few…
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: In this message, Jamin looks over Jude’s closing–one of the most beautiful benedictions in the Bible. Some forms of the gospel put our identity in sin, while Jude’s gospel reminds us that we can rise above sin with the help of Jesus.
God made Eve from Adam’s ṣēlāʿ, a Hebrew word meaning “side.” The image is one of a man split in half. Eve is not subservient or subordinate to Adam, rather, she is on the same exact level as him. She is his coequal, given to man as an ezer—the Hebrew word for “helper.” Being a helper does…
“I don’t want to live my life trying to get rewards in Heaven,” a fellow seminary student told the teacher when the topic came up. “I’m not trying to get something out of my relationship with God.” This is the classic “holier-than-thou” response I’m used to hearing when Christians get into such topics. Even those…
Jesus didn’t get to do everything he wanted. His mother asked him to do a miracle before he was supposed to, and he agreed. He healed a leper and asked him to be silent about it so a crowd wouldn’t form, forcing him to leave the city, but the leper didn’t listen. He sometimes tried…
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