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?
As they left Baghdad for Jordan, the car tire suddenly popped, sending it onto its side in a ditch. Shane Claiborne and his friends pulled themselves out of the vehicle where they were picked up by some Iraqi men and driven to a hospital in a town called Rutba. But when they arrived, the found…
If you’ve ever had someone close to you turn on you, you’re not alone. God has had this happen to him, too. The prophet Ezekiel tells us that Satan was once a blameless guardian cherub full of wisdom and beauty. He lived in God’s holy space in the mountain of the Garden of Eden (a…
“Jamin, I just wanna let you know that I’m unfriending and unfollowing you. I’ve never heard a pastor post and talk the way you talk with such a political slant and bias. Quite frankly I believe it is a very ignorant and one-sided approach. I love your dad. And I could never imagine him presenting…
It’s terrifying for a prophet to tell an authoritarian king bad news from God. Doing such a thing often got prophets killed in ancient times, so Elijah was likely very fearful when the king sent 50 soldiers to fetch him for his prophetic word about the king’s death. Indeed, the prophet flipped out and called…
When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was a half hour of silence in Heaven. But why? Scholars have proposed a variety of opinions, several of which fit this scenario quite well. And we address a few of them here in this video. Join the discussion on our Discord: http://www.jxncloud.com/discord
Jesus is God. We know this. This is Theology 101. The disciples, however, did not know that. Not at first. For them, Jesus was an anointed prophet of God doing things similar to what the prophets of old had done. Jesus was the not the first to multiply food, heal people, or do miracles; for…
In church one Sunday I had a willing congregant come forward to show everyone what it was like to pursue the Holy Spirit in a visual meditative state. We didn’t know what the Spirit would want us to get into ahead of time, so the entire room was surprised when my participant felt God wanted…
I discovered something when I was writing my first book: I can get lost in writing. I can sit down in a chair, write straight through lunch and get up eight hours later with no recognition that time has changed. And then, if I really want, I could grab a bite to eat and then…
In 1995, God called Heidi Baker, a woman with a Ph.D in systematic theology, to go and serve in Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in the world. Once there, her team was eventually given a children’s center with about 80 residents. They would work with these kids to show them the love and power…
Mahesh Chavda had a huge problem. His palm-sized, one pound, three ounce son had been born four months premature and he was supposed to be getting on a plane to do ministry in Africa. The tension was real as the Holy Spirit and his wife told him to go. He eventually reached Kinshasa where 2,300…
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