Jamin Bradley

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

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  • When Neutral Practices Go Sour

    Plenty of church people are afraid that if you play Dungeons and Dragons you’ll get a demon. Meanwhile, those who play the game find this idea laughable. As a pastor, I simply aim to play the game responsibly. When I was a kid, me, my brother, and my neighborhood friend would play a game we…

  • Stuck in the Cycle of Promised Worth

    There are many reasons people get hooked on porn. Over time, the Holy Spirit showed me an unexpected reason as to why I was trapped: I found worth in it. It taught me that my body had power—power to make another person feel really good and really special, which made me feel like I was…

  • I Learned My Lesson

    I called up the youth pastor and told him a better way in which he could do things. My plan was simple, really: all he had to do was relinquish control and put me in charge of the youth band. Oh, I was sixteen and in the youth group, by the way. I learned my…

  • A Multifaceted Approach to Biblical Interpretation

    After telling some neighborhood kids the story of the woman caught in adultery, Shane Claiborne asked them what they thought Jesus wrote in the sand. “If this doesn’t work, run, woman!” one of the kids joked.1 While scholars might propose serious suggestions for what Jesus wrote, no one can know for sure. The Bible invites…

  • The Lovetree

    “…all good allegory exists not to hide, but to reveal; to make the inner world more palpable by giving it an (imagined) concrete embodiment.” -C.S. Lewis A beam of light pierced through a small hole in the tent onto the farmer’s tired face and warmed his cheek. It was one of those beams you almost thought…

  • A Desperate Musical

    I was taught by the church that removing demons is easy. If you find one, you just tell it to go. I was told by trained exorcists that it was a little more complicated than that. If you find one, you must counsel the person to get it out. But then I found one, and…

  • The Laughter of the Laugher

    There is laughter all over Isaac’s story. It starts with Abraham laughing at the idea that he and Sarah might have a kid after he had hit triple digits. Sarah laughed too, getting an extra kick out of the thought that she might experience sexual pleasure at her age—though when God called her out for…

  • Even Dead Stars Shine

    I’m a third generation Free Methodist pastor and I sometimes wonder where I’d be today if my grandpa hadn’t started that tradition long ago. Likewise, I wonder if the tradition might continue with my own kids. My son already has plans to be a pastor and video game developer when he grows up, and my…

  • The Animal and the Cheater

    Through Abraham’s genetic line, we hoped for the sinless human descendant that would crush Satan’s head. But Abraham’s miraculous baby son, Isaac, was not the one. Indeed, we know very little about him at all, except that he needed a miracle child of his own to keep the line going. God healed his family of…

  • You Can Increase God’s Glory

    It’s hard to narrow the word glory down because it has a lot of meanings in the Bible. In this message, I work off Matthew Bates’ book, Why the Gospel?, to describe God’s glory in a way that implies fame. From this point of view, you actually have the ability to increase God’s glory.