Kidnapped, enslaved, and forgotten—until God spoke in a dream. The story of Patrick isn’t just history; it’s an invitation. What happens when we say yes to God, even when it leads us back to the places we’d rather avoid?
From Spring Arbor University: Jamin Bradley talks about how Jesus humbled himself so that he could become a living example of how to live a life for Christ in our next video in our Lent Series.
This may be the most financially dangerous message Jamin has ever preached! Or if you catch the point of it, it may be the most financially empowering! In this message, Jamin explains how tithing is an Old Testament notion, not a New Testament one. Giving to the tabernacle and giving to the church are two…
We often associate clouds with power. In modern media, we depict clouds as a place where superheroes belong. We revel in the marvels of modern technology, recognizing that humans have become powerful enough to make their way past the clouds in gigantic double-decker airplanes. And, of course, we naturally associate power with clouds as we…
In ancient Israel, it was a priest’s job to bring humanity before God. They were Levites who carried out many tasks. They took care of the sacred space in which God’s manifest presence dwelt, they made sacrifices on behalf of the people of God, they offered visitors counsel, they served as judges on difficult legal…
We often remember scribes as the people who copied manuscripts in the ancient world, but they actually did a lot more than that. Indeed, a big part of the reason they were chosen to copy manuscripts is because of everything else they were trained to do. It was their job to teach and interpret important…
Christians are often found saying things like, “All of you God and none of me.” While the sentiment of such a statement can be appreciated, it’s not exactly a Biblical perspective of who we are as humans. God is not looking for Christians to become a homogenous group of people that are unidentifiable from each…
Of all the names God could have given Moses for himself, he chose YHWH, which scholars often refer to as the tetragrammaton. While this sounds like a name for a Transformer, it comes from the Greek tetra (four) and grammaton (letter). In Hebrew these four letters are often translated as, “I Am Who I Am.”…
Christians are weird about politics. If they’re in favor of a president, they’re quick to use the Scriptures to tell us that God puts all authorities in charge and that we are to follow and respect them. This simple-minded, blanket-statement theology immediately falls flat once someone like Hitler is in office, but we’re willing to…
Everything Everywhere All At Once has set a new high for absurdity in movies, but its writers manage to use this storytelling technique to say a lot about the world and our place in it. Pastors Dallas Flippin and Jamin Bradley dive into the spiritual and biblical themes that this movie holds just in time…
Chances are that you’ve probably met someone who’s been dead before, because in modern society death is temporary before it’s permanent. There’s always that narrow window in which someone can be revived and have their blood start flowing again. For this reason, death is scary, but not as scary as it used to be. Hope…
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