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…
I grew increasingly uncomfortable as I sat against the back wall of an enormous auditorium for a secular justice event. The crowd unanimously applauded statements I disagreed with. Comedians scathingly berated Caucasians, even though they were there to help. A picture of a middle finger alongside the words, “F*** FEMA and the U.S. Military,” was…
My family was already headed on a vacation to our desolate cabin this week, so I broke off from them for a couple of hours to echo Saint Antony’s desire to seek God out in the wilderness. During that time, I spent a lot of time asking for wisdom. I then returned to write a…
In this timely message, 1208 celebrates Juneteenth by using it as a stepping stone to talk about the church, social justice, diversity, and anti-racism.
We’ve recently found ourselves at 1208 pressing in for more of the Holy Spirit. In this message we continue to do so, crying out for God to meet us as we worship so that we might know and experience the greater depths of his Spirit and be continually anointed for his ministry.
The church’s mission to “make disciples of all nations” (Matt. 28:19) has long been carried out by the works of martyrs and apologists. Just as Jesus embraced persecution and martyrdom, so did his followers—from the first martyr, Stephen (Acts 7:60), to the churches mentioned in the letters of Revelation. Likewise, just as Jesus did a…
The New Testament is full of empowered women, starting with Jesus’ female disciples. Jamin dives into the Scriptures to show all the ways in which they served the church, be it as missionaries, evangelists, prophets, apostles, and more.
I made a quick acoustic version of a new song I wrote for an upcoming event. You can listen on Spotify (or wherever you stream music). If you want the simplified capo chords as I play them on the acoustic recording, check the lyrics below. If you want a PDF of the chords without the…
While Annihilation may seem like a chill sci-fi movie with some creepy horror themes interspersed throughout it, Dallas and Jamin found it to be quite thought-provoking on spiritual themes. Enjoy their pastoral discussion on topics like resurrection, new creation, and much, much more.
In this message, Jamin provides a narrative of 1208’s spiritual journey over the last year and invites us to wait expectantly for the Spirit to pour out in a fresh and visible way.
For the earliest church, Christianity was Judaism. The early Christ followers were Jews who had filled in the gap of who they believed their coming King was. Therefore, no Jew would have been thinking, “I need to abandon my faith and join this Christian movement”—rather, their thoughts were more like, “We are the Jews who…
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