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…
Question: When giving Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew 1, why is it Joseph’s genealogy and not Mary’s? Answer: Kind of ironic since he didn’t exactly have a hand in Jesus’ creation, eh? Haha. Though that being said, Joseph would have remained the legal father of Jesus, so it’s okay to attach the genealogy to him. There…
Question: Something I struggle with understanding is in romans paul speaks about faith for salvation and then in james it talks about works… I get that good works come from us having faith but it really confuses me and makes me feel like I’m never doing enough Answer: Great question. This has been a soapbox…
While we were driving my daughter said, “No way! I was just thinking about a bush and there’s a streetsign that says bush!” “Why do you think that happened?” I asked. “I don’t know,” she replied. “I can think of three possibilities,” I responded. “The first is what we call ‘subconscious.’ That’s when your brain…
The disciples were excited to discover that they could cast out demons, causing Jesus to respond that he “saw Satan fall like lightning.” What does this curious phrase mean? Jamin traces the theme of Satan throughout the Bible to show how Satan has fallen like lightning, is falling like lightning, and will fall like lightning.
Heaven and Hell is a simple concept, right? Not exactly. While these seem to be the two end results of judgment on the Day of the Lord, Jesus talks about judgment in a wider sense than that. In this message, Jamin focuses on a few passages that don’t exactly match the mold.
There are three stories intertwined in Luke about doing ministry. Twice Jesus sends his disciples out with a lack of provision for the job, yet they are cared for. But in the third story, Jesus calls them to do ministry the wrong way, which Peter readily embraces.
As God takes his place in the divine council in Psalm 82, he declares judgment over the lesser gods.1 They have judged unjustly, let the wicked get by with their sin, and ignored the poor and needy within their nations. This corruption moves like a virus, making its way from the gods to the authorities…
Looking for some new pictures of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism? I’ve used MidJourney’s AI to produce you a few in varied styles. Freak Accidents
So far this year I’ve run about 8,500 AI jobs via MidJourney. As a big C.S. Lewis fan, I’ve occasionally tried to produce some fun pictures of him. Here are a few I’ve generated so far. A Freak Accident I tried to make C.S. Lewis hanging out with Mr. Tumnus. It went wrong. Enjoy.
According to Paul’s famous Christ Hymn in Philippians 2:7-11, while Jesus was in the form of God, he emptied himself and took on human form, being obedient to death on the cross, which was an act that exalted him as Lord—a title that turned “ancient Jewish monotheism into a new christological monotheism.”1 This emptying is…
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