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…
There’s a parable Jesus told where everyone gets hired at a different time, but they all get paid the same wage. Through a Caucasian lens, this parable kind of feels unjust. But as one Latino Bible scholar points out, for the Latino trying to find work all day with no luck, it’s actually a parable…
Jude not only references a strange story from Genesis 6, but he also references a book called 1 Enoch, which elaborates immensely on this strange story. Why does he jump into this content? Jamin helps us get a deeper understanding of this story and what it meant for Jude.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Among the many puzzling statements Jude makes, he says, “Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.” Out of all the Trinity members Jude could use in this statement,…
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Today we start a new short series on the book of Jude. In this message, Jamin calls Christians to calm down on blowing the heresy horn. Jude had to deal with false teachers who were building Christianity around immorality and rebellion. This is vastly different from how Christians fight over their different…
NEW 1208PODCAST EPISODE: Ezekiel once had a vision of a deep stream of water flowing out of the temple into the Dead Sea, bringing life to everything it touched along the way. In this message, Jamin connects the stream to a few of Jesus’ statements and explains why this vision is important for Christians today.
As Ezekiel 33 shows us, the prophetic role is a heavy one. While we may not all be prophets like Ezekiel was, the capacity to operate in prophetic gifting lies in each one of us since all Christians have the Holy Spirit. Jamin takes us deeper into this dynamic in this podcast episode.
If you have not experienced doubt then you cannot experience faith, for faith is hardly faith without some level of doubt. If people are healed every single time you pray for them, is that faith or physics? I do not have real faith in gravity, because I do not doubt it. It does not challenge…
In the Genesis creation story, before the world had any structure at all, it was nothing more than a chaotic sea of water. He did not do away with this chaos entirely, but he gave it boundaries and raised up land as order in the midst of it. One had to be careful when approaching…
Philip the Evangelist is sent by an angel and the Holy Spirit to evangelize a very ambiguous person in his time. Jamin uses this story as a springboard to explain how we must put down our walls and patiently reach all people, regardless of their differences. He pulls many stories from his own life along…
We all claim to want the wisdom of God, but we are more prone to take out messengers of such wisdom when they come around. Though Jesus was wisdom itself, religious people remained very skeptical of him. Though Stephen spoke with the same kind of wisdom, he was martyred for his teachings. What wisdom does…
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