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?
After Adam and Eve sinned, they and their predecessors would have to deal with the consequences. But they were not left without hope, for God promised that one day a descendant of Eve would rise up and destroy the serpent for what he had done. And as the Bible continues on, this coming-child’s genetic line…
As weird as it sounds, in ancient cosmology the peaks of the earth overlapped with the depths of the Heavens. Therefore, you might run into a spiritual being if you moved high enough in elevation. Even the Bible carries this view as God often shows up in mountaintop experiences, be it Eden, Sinai, Mount Zion,…
“What if we flipped a coin?” a friend once proposed. “I mean, we like both applicants the same amount and the disciples more or less did the same thing when they chose Matthias to take Judas’s place as the twelfth disciple.” I hadn’t been given a proposal quite like that before. There were lots of…
“Hold,” my wife said as I got ready to try to kick a demon out in a deliverance session. She sensed the Holy Spirit had more he needed to deal with before we removed it. “I feel like there’s something connected to their left hand.” She had no idea how accurate she was. No one…
God sometimes takes risks on us, even before we’ve proved ourselves or our character. This can lead to prophets like Jeremiah, whom God consecrated and appointed before he was even conceived in his mother’s womb. Would Jeremiah’s free will get in the way of his preordained calling? Fortunately, no—though Jeremiah would complain about his calling…
As I went to pray about church yesterday, a dream I had that morning popped into my mind. As I reflected on it, I felt it important to lean into the themes found there. And out of those themes came this message, calling the post-pandemic church out of apathy.
“Give us this day our daily bread.” There are some things we say so often that we don’t stop and realize how odd they sound. Why should God give us THIS DAY our DAILY bread? Isn’t that kind of redundant? Yes, but that may be because we’re translating it wrong. Epiousios, the Greek word we…
Have you ever been trying to listen to someone talk, but you missed everything they said because of something happening around you? I imagine that was the case for Jesus’ disciples as he taught at Martha’s house. Sure, Jesus probably had some amazing things to teach, but something unusual was going on: Martha’s sister, Mary,…
Jamin Bradley 