Like all Americans, I grew up looking at a flag with my hand over my heart as I pledged my life to it at schools, sports, and even church. It had the word “God” in it, so I figured I was on the right track, but as I grew up, I started to note too…
Through Abraham’s genetic line, we hoped for the sinless human descendant that would crush Satan’s head. But Abraham’s miraculous baby son, Isaac, was not the one. Indeed, we know very little about him at all, except that he needed a miracle child of his own to keep the line going. God healed his family of…
It’s hard to narrow the word glory down because it has a lot of meanings in the Bible. In this message, I work off Matthew Bates’ book, Why the Gospel?, to describe God’s glory in a way that implies fame. From this point of view, you actually have the ability to increase God’s glory.
In most Bible translations, there’s a story that goes like this: Abraham’s son, Isaac, went out in a field to meditate one evening. He then looked up and saw a woman named Rebekah approaching on a camel. She saw him and dismounted her camel and they were married shortly later. But there’s another way to…
Abraham and Sarah had gotten a good laugh from God’s promise that they would have a child, and they instead worked out their own way to secure a descendant. First, they planned on handing the family legacy down to Abraham’s chief servant, Eliezer. But then they decided to resort to a form of sex slavery…
We’ve all had that moment where we can’t find the remote, and then we discover it on the coffee table in front of us, where it had been sitting all along. How on earth did we miss it? It wasn’t even hidden! Perhaps that’s how Hagar felt when she saw a well right in front…
The literal translation of the word angel is messenger. These divine postmen not only pass along messages from God, but they return to Heaven with messages for God. As a part of God’s divine council, they weigh in on issues they’ve witnessed and offer input when God desires it. For example, God sent some angels…
In Ephesians 5, Paul talks about light, darkness, and our place in it. Jamin dives into this theme on both a scientific and spiritual level.
Many view God as an angry and wrathful entity that’s doing everything he can to hold himself back from killing us all for our sin and disobedience. The Bible, however, has a very different perspective. He didn’t bring about the flood until the whole world had turned their hearts toward evil except for one man.…
If you condense all existence into a one-year calendar, every day would be about 40 million years and every month would be about 1 billion years. On this scale, all recorded history has only been happening in the last seconds of that calendar. God is patient. He often moves slower than we want. He fulfills…
Scholars say that the concept of resurrection is hardly found in the Old Testament, but Jesus seemed to feel differently. For example, the Sadducees didn’t believe in resurrection and only held the first five books of the Bible as sacred, yet Jesus thought they still had reason to believe in resurrection from those books alone.…
Jamin Bradley 