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A Look Inside 1208
Our church revamped itself and launched its new dinner church hybrid model on September 9th! Since then, they’ve made many new friends, served many meals, and taken people deeper into the gospel. A large volunteer base shows up every week to keep things running smoothly in all different areas. 1208 and many other churches in…
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Reaching a Younger Generation
In our very first episode of the SMC podcast, we interview Annie Bailey Roberts of Gravitational Leadership to learn about how our churches can reach younger generations. Check out this podcast episode on Southern Michigan Conference’s Webpage or simply subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or Google Play.
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My New Comic Book is Out!
I have always loved comics but have always been horrible at drawing. That being said, I decided to make horrible art a staple of my comics. Using the calligraphy pen feature on one of my apps, I drew a bunch of stick figures and made the main focus of my humor their facial expressions. Most…
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Repenting of Racism
Racism isn’t always hiding in the depths of our thought life—it’s sometimes quite blatant. For example, I remember eating lunch with my friends in the cafeteria of our 99% white high school when a friend confessed that they were racist to some extent. What tears me up even to this day is what happened next:…
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Seek the Presence Your Own Way (Pt 6)
As we conclude this week’s series on worship music, I’d like to say that I get it—some people don’t like music. They don’t like to sing and they just can’t seem to wrap their minds around a presence-infused worship service. To such people I’d like two say two quick things: (1) I don’t think your…
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The Revelation Scenes (Pt 5)
Finally, I’d like to make note of the scenes we find in Revelation. Throughout this book we get glimpses of spectacular worship services in which the creatures surrounding God’s throne can’t stop praising Him on repeat. Even though their words aren’t mentioned to have music backing them up, they certainly sound caught up in a…
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Worship Music and Exorcism (Pt 4)
What about King David? Do you think he ever engaged the presence of God with his music? I would say so, seeing as how we find the supernatural at play in his prophetic lyrics. Though there’s another way he engaged the supernatural as well. There’s an intriguing story that happens after King Saul started walking…
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Elisha Needed Music to Prophesy (Pt 3)
When some men desired that Elisha ask God something on their behalf, Elisha responded, “’bring me a musician.’ And when the musician played, the hand of the Lord came upon him” (2 Ki 3:15). Again, we find in this passage another example of presence-music. Elisha knows from the get-go of the request that a musician…
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The Musical Prophets (Pt 2)
So much weird stuff happens to Saul when he comes in contact with a group of prophets that we often miss the simple components of the story. You may recall that Samuel told Saul that he would “meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before…
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Presence Music (Pt 1)
It has become popular over the years for pastors to remind their congregations that what we do with our lives is worship and not just the music we sing on Sundays. This, of course, is all good and true and needs to be said given how lacking the church is in discipleship. By all means,…
Jamin Bradley 
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