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…
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…
VERSE 1I don’t know if a vow of povertyWould come and be the death of meI don’t know I don’t know if I lack in trust and faithOr if it’s wisdom that I stayI don’t know PRE-CHORUS 1Jesus are you embellishing To make a pointOr are your words for a select few If I hold my…
In this message, Jamin reads several stories from Luke back to back so that we can feel the immensity of what it must have been like to do ministry with Jesus. In this brief look, we see that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nature has no authority over him. Armies of demons are scared of…
In the parable of the seeds, Jesus describes the Christian life as he desires it to be: one that produces a hundredfold. This is a convicting passage for many of us as we consider the seeds we relate to most in this parable. Are we being all that we’re supposed to be? What’s stopping us…
In C.S. Lewis’ science fiction book, Perelandra, a man from Earth finds himself on Venus with a version of Adam and Eve. After much testing, these Venus-natives overcome their temptations and enter straight into the resurrection as their bodies become godlike. Lewis remarks, “You might ask how it was possible to look upon it and…
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