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The Power of Honest Worship: Embracing Lament Psalms
Modern worship music is a tad dishonest in its rampant positivity. Sure, it’s packed with many generic storm metaphors, but most of it doesn’t dig deep enough. There’s nothing wrong with positive worship music, as the Bible is full of such songs, but when our entire collection is nothing but the top 100 songs on…
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The Kingdom of God is like a Brisket
Few meats are more challenging to smoke than a brisket because this giant cut of meat has an unpredictable phase known as the stall. This usually happens once the meat hits 160 degrees (though it can happen earlier or later) and lasts anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours. It’s a pain to navigate, especially…
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Open to Mockery
I returned home from vacation to find Christians fighting about a Last Supper mockery at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. According to the articles I’ve read, this visual connection wasn’t intentional. I don’t find this overly difficult to believe since people striking a pose behind a long table will always generally look like da Vinci’s…
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Lawyer Angels and Their Many Other Roles
The Book of Jude makes a very strange reference (likely to the Testament of Abraham), where the Archangel Michael defends Moses’ body from Satan. In this message, Jamin and the crowd at 1208 Greenwood Church survey all of the things that angels do in the Bible to get a better idea as to why the…
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Multiethnic Biblical Interpretation
There’s a parable Jesus told where everyone gets hired at a different time, but they all get paid the same wage. Through a Caucasian lens, this parable kind of feels unjust. But as one Latino Bible scholar points out, for the Latino trying to find work all day with no luck, it’s actually a parable…
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Angels in Chains
Jude not only references a strange story from Genesis 6, but he also references a book called 1 Enoch, which elaborates immensely on this strange story. Why does he jump into this content? Jamin helps us get a deeper understanding of this story and what it meant for Jude.
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Remember How Jesus Led Israel Out of Egypt?
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Among the many puzzling statements Jude makes, he says, “Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.” Out of all the Trinity members Jude could use in this statement,…
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Stop Calling Everyone a Heretic
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Today we start a new short series on the book of Jude. In this message, Jamin calls Christians to calm down on blowing the heresy horn. Jude had to deal with false teachers who were building Christianity around immorality and rebellion. This is vastly different from how Christians fight over their different…
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Streams of Living Water
NEW 1208PODCAST EPISODE: Ezekiel once had a vision of a deep stream of water flowing out of the temple into the Dead Sea, bringing life to everything it touched along the way. In this message, Jamin connects the stream to a few of Jesus’ statements and explains why this vision is important for Christians today.
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A Fire in the Bones
As Ezekiel 33 shows us, the prophetic role is a heavy one. While we may not all be prophets like Ezekiel was, the capacity to operate in prophetic gifting lies in each one of us since all Christians have the Holy Spirit. Jamin takes us deeper into this dynamic in this podcast episode.
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