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Daniel Learns the Prophetic
Daniel is an interesting character to draw on as we consider the idea of people learning to be prophets. What’s intriguing about him is that he didn’t necessarily seem to choose to become a prophet, but rather, he was basically forced into the position by humans and blessed by God along the way. After God…
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VIDEO: Dinner Church
The Southern Michigan Conference of the Free Methodist Church featured us in a video at Annual Conference today. If you’d like to know more about what we do at dinner church as the new projects we’re working on, check it out.
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Mission Expansion
In today’s podcast episode, we talk about Pentecost and our mission at 1208. Pentecost is not only about Holy Spirit empowerment, but it’s also about what we’re empowered to do: To go into the nations and pull people out of the grip of other spiritual entities and bring them into adoption as children of the…
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Melchizedek
Melchizedek shows up briefly in Genesis 14, but then becomes an important character in the Psalms and later Jewish writing. Why? That is the question we address today with Hebrews’ answer. Check out this podcast episode on 1208GREENWOOD’s webpage or simply subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or Google Play.
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Love
Last night I took a break in our series on Matthew to give a discourse on God’s love. Check it out on the podcast. Check out this podcast episode on 1208GREENWOOD’s webpage or simply subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or Google Play.
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JXN Harm Reduction
I ended up on the news this week after an interviewer reached out to me about our group JXN Harm Reduction. We started this group sometime back as an effort to fight the opioid epidemic that our city is facing. Our method at JXN Harm Reduction may sound a bit backwards, but it’s all aimed…
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Interview with Scott Smith
After his family introduced him to porn at age nine, Scott Smith eventually found his sex addiction sending him to Cell Block 7 of the Jackson State Prison with a life sentence. Intriguingly, this is where God got ahold of him quickly—so quickly that he was released from his life sentence in two years. I…
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Peaceful Tactics
The kind of peace I advocate for is the kind illustrated in the life of Jesus. He embraced peace to the point of death when he could have started a legitimate holy war instead. Not only could he have called angels down to fight, but he also had enough traction that he could have easily…
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150,000 Years of Debt
In today’s message we look at Jesus’ parable about a man who was released from a great debt, just to go and force one of his own debtors pay him. In this parable, Jesus teaches us to forgive others whatever their debt, as many times as necessary, for God has forgiven us our incredible debt.…
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Lectio Deficillior
In the world of Bible translation we find tons and tons of different manuscripts of the Bible to sort through, each with their own differences and similarities from the Scribes who copied them. Some of the differences might be human errors, like when you’re trying to copy a paper you have in front of you…
Jamin Bradley 