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?
In this episode, we explore the Bible’s strange and often misunderstood language around ritual impurity, especially when it comes to menstruation. Contrary to popular assumptions, impurity wasn’t about sin—it was about symbolic death.
Esau sometimes comes across as a bit of a meathead. In today’s episode we take a deeper look at this Biblical character in attempts to understand the wider story at play in the narrative of Esau and Jacob.
When Paul tries to convince the Romans that the Gentiles can be brought into the covenant family of God without first being circumcised or being subjected to the law, he uses Abraham as his example why. By Paul’s reasoning, Abraham was the original Gentile that God brought into the covenant and God considered him righteous…
In this episode of the 1208-Bit *Nerd Church Podcast we talk about the first season of Disney+’s, “Loki.” This leads us into all kinds of conversations like free will, predestination, open theism, and even resurrection.
I’ve seen empathy manifest as a spiritual gift in several people throughout my life. Often these people will be praying for someone when all of the sudden, they just start weeping. They may not have the perfect words to pray over the person, but they “feel-all-the-feels.” Whatever emotion the person they’re praying for is feeling…
Judging ourselves harshly is not the only problem we have when it comes to judgment. More often than not, our real problem with judgment is the judgment we place on others. But in order to offer others the extravagant love God has given us, we need to first stop judging those around us just as…
We often use Romans to turn faith into a concept of mental gymnastics, but in Genesis 26 God extends His covenant promise to Isaac because of how his father lived out his faith. In this episode we explore the different dimensions behind the idea of “faith” and ask what it really means to be a…
Sometimes we try to take advantage of God’s love, knowing God will forgive us in the end, ignoring the stern warning Hebrews 10:26-27 gives us: “For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury…
Every month pastors from across the states and beyond come together for a retreat at one of my favorite places in Jackson, MI: The Fossores Chapter House. This house was set up by Pastor and author David McDonald from Westwinds and it has been a huge blessing on my life over the last year. He…
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