Jamin Bradley

Pastor. Theologian. Musician. Author. Nerd. Exorcist.

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  • Live on Rise Above’s Twitch Stream

    Yesterday I spent two and a half hours on my friend Neil’s risk_immersed Twitch stream, talking about Nerd Church, video games, creativity, online friendships, and much more. It was a great time and we’ll probably do it again down the road. You can watch our stream here. Neil is a fellow pastor in my conference…

  • Dodgeball RPG

    We tried out a new game at Nerd Church tonight! The idea was to incorporate the classic statuses and types of typical RPGs into dodgeball by having different colored balls that represented different effects. Here’s the reference slide we had on the TVs for everyone to remember what did what. Attacks Blue: Freeze Status effect—doesn’t…

  • Beyond the Crystal Sea

    Revelation 4 is a powerful scene of God’s throne room and it’s there that we find all kinds of strange things we don’t know what to make of. But once we learn about these strange things we begin to see God glorified even more. For a deeper look at my “snow globe” analogy, check out…

  • Interpreting Joseph’s Dreams

    When I was a kid I thought Joseph’s dreams in the Old testament were straight up gibberish. To me, it was as though a dream was a bunch of binary code and Joseph was a computer. You simply feed the binary code into the computer and it comes out meaning something, but otherwise it’s just…

  • A Mallhark Special

    Every year my brother and I make a weird Christmas related video for our church’s variety show. This year we pretended to make a Hallmark special.

  • The Letters to the Churches

    The letters John wrote to the churches of Revelation are not churches in the future. They were real churches that existed at the time he wrote them and they were specifically written to them in their context. In this message I explain how each letter related to their particular environment. Check out this podcast episode…

  • Bible Dreams & Dreamers

    Psychologists and western culture have taught us that dreams are nothing more than our subconscious sorting things out. This, of course, isn’t untrue. We have these kinds of dreams all the time. Our brains are constantly going, whether we’re awake or asleep, so by all means, we are bound to dream. It’s simple science. But just…

  • Tips for Hearing God’s Voice

    Trying to hear God’s voice can be difficult at first. Maybe you’ve gotten quiet but you still can’t hear. Maybe you’ve waited a long time but nothing happened. Maybe you’ve tried to make prayer conversational but you still feel like you’re talking to a wall. You’re trying, and that’s important. You’re headed the right direction and…

  • Conversational Prayer

    I have found that the majority of prayer services are practiced only from an intercessory angle—in other words, many Christians only pray prayers that treat God as though He’s some kind of magical cosmic genie. They ask and they ask, repeating the same prayer over and over again with different words for ten minutes straight,…

  • Our Empowerment Houses in the News

    “‘It gets disheartening to never have answers for people’s big problems,’ Bradley said. So 1208Greenwood is working to launch Empowerment Houses, which will provide transitional housing for the homeless and work with them to provide basic needs and help stabilize their lives.” Thanks to Marie for writing up this article for our #GivingTuesday campaign! Check out…