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…
Every human in history has asked the question, “Why am I here?” The answers given to this question vary depending on religion, worldview, and one’s general understanding of their place in society. The Hebrews expected this question, and so they set out to answer it in the opening pages of their Scriptures by reflecting on…
We planted a “nerd church” a few years back to reach a comic-con type of crowd. Being a nerd myself, I’ve tried to stay open to nerdy theological questions that people might ask. At one point along the way, I spent a lot of time trying to answer the question, “Would God make aliens?” With…
For a few weeks now, Jamin has felt a call to do some significant fasting during this Lenten season. He invites you to join along and gives some Biblical reasons to fast compared to the many modern reasons people fast.
Every Wednesday people get together at our church to worship for an hour or two with no firm plan ahead of time. It’s a beautiful time and a lot of spontaneous music is created along the way. Every once in a while I pull the spontaneous stuff out of these raw sessions and put an…
Jesus speaks identity into his disciples. He changes Simon’s name to Peter. He nicknames the other Simon “the Zealot.” He nicknames two others “The Sons of Thunder.” He calls 12 of them “apostles.” Jesus invests calling in them through names, and titles. What names and titles is he speaking over you? What names and titles…
Dallas Flippin makes the best Biblical comparisons ever with modern-day movies, so we thought we’d start a new podcast where we talk about such things. Check out our first episode on one of my favorite directors of all time: Jordan Peele. In this episode, we talk about the prophetic qualities of his three films, Get Out,…
It seems like a little deal to us when we read stories about Jesus breaking Sabbath laws and expectations, but it certainly was a big deal to the Pharisees. In their minds, he was breaking the sacred laws that God had put in place. But Jesus didn’t see it that way. So how did he…
The archangel Michael takes on the dragon that is Satan in John’s fantastical story of a war in Heaven. The JXN Cloud team discusses what this means and how it fits into the overall story of Satan’s fall and the spiritual worldview of the Bible.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the prophets over the last few years and how they spent so much of their time trying to correct their political leaders and societies, often with no response. If Israel wanted to image God to the rest of the world and bless them, they would first have to turn…
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