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?
Today we talk about their favorite aliens in entertainment, the possibility of God creating aliens, and a whole lot of other topics in this episode of the 1208-Bit Podcast.
We saw Black Widow opening night and we’re ready to talk about it on the 1208-Bit *Nerd Church Podcast! This takes us into some pretty weighty themes of human trafficking, abuse, dissociation, mind control, and even—wait for it—witchcraft. Because of some of these themes, viewer discretion is advised as some may find some of these…
Tylar and I are pastors over 1208-Bit *Nerd Church, where we’ve used Dungeons and Dragons in the past to help people not only learn theology, but experience it. In this episode, we talk about the ways in which we’ve used the game, and discuss some of the Christians ethics behind the game and how to…
The theme is “Blessed Are Those Who Mourn,” and so Tylar and Jamin cry their way through their saddest podcast episode ever as they discuss the bitterly amazing game, “That Dragon, Cancer.” This is an autobiographical video game about a family that lost a 5-year-old son to cancer and then shared their journey of grief…
“Hi, I’m Jamin and I’m a shame addict.” That’s what a friend once called me anyways. I thought it was ridiculous. You get addicted to things that you want to be addicted to, right? Things like sex, drugs, alcohol, and food leave you with some kind of high or pleasure to keep coming back to.…
Mike McHargue points out that those who experience an angry God have more activity going on in their amygdala, which causes them to have more stress, anger more easily, and fear those who are different from them. They also struggle more to forgive themselves. On the other hand, those who experience God as loving develop…
God is crazy about you. He is the most extravagant of pursuers out there. He knows every detail about you because he knit you together in your mother’s womb (Psalm 139:13). He is so meticulous about you that he has even counted how many hairs there are on your head (Matthew 10:30)! He cares about…
In the beginning God made it all and, “saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). Note that God said it was very good and not perfect. The Hebrew word used here is tob which means pleasant, joyful, or agreeable. The New Bible Dictionary explains that this word signifies,…
Perfection is a scary word for the Christian and rightly so, because there are many out there who abuse the term. But John Wesley had a strong impression as to how perfection was supposed to play out in the Christian’s life. He based his concept of Christian Perfection on five achievements: Loving God with all…
Romans has been used over the years to diminish evangelism to nothing more than “thinking” a certain way to be on the right side of judgment. But Jesus required good works of his followers if they were to be on the right side of judgment. In this message, I look to harmonize both sides of…
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