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The New Music I Enjoyed in 2023
I’m at that age where new music doesn’t impress me like it used to, but still check every Friday to see what’s come out and give it a listen. That being said, here’s a few albums that stood out to me this year. pure – Abbie Gamboa Abbie Gamboa’s album, pure, is easily one of…
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The Best Books I Read in 2023
Out of the 46 books I read this year, here are some of the best and why (in no particular order). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma As I’ve done exorcism throughout the years, I’ve come across some of the kinds of trauma difficulties that Bessel van…
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Hymn Culture
I don’t have a problem with hymns. However, I do have a problem with the “hymn culture” of some Protestants. Our hymns were written well after the time of Jesus—many of the most popular ones being created in the last 500 years. Yet hymn culture treats these songs as sacred, as though God only inspired…
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Lessons in Ministering to the Homeless
After struggling to grow our church for several years, we shifted into a dinner church model. Our numbers increased immediately, hitting triple digits in about two years. The word of our dinners spread rapidly among the impoverished and homeless in our community, giving us an inroad to the very people we had been trying to…
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Jesus, the Church, and Gender Abuse
Why did God come to earth as a man and not a woman? Either gender could have been theologically possible since the Old Testament presents Jesus in the masculine form of the Angel of the Lord (Gen. 32:24–30; cf. Hos. 12:3-4)1 and the feminine form of Woman Wisdom (Prov. 8:22-31; cf. Luke 11:49-50; Matt. 23:34-35).2…
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The Glories of the Human Image
As God created the world, the already existing sons of God sang and shouted joyfully (Job 38:7). It is to these spiritual beings that God turned and said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Gen. 1:26).1 The implication here is important: the spiritual beings of heaven and the humans of earth…
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Look to the Stars (Original Christmas Song)
Thought I’d try my hand at a theological Christmas song this year. I’ll throw in the Bible references for you, too, since I’m getting into some weird territory (as is my way). Hope you enjoy 🙂 VERSE 1Look to the stars and count them all (Gen 15:5)Just rest and take them inSee them shine, the…
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Scripture, Scribe and Spirit
After Jesus was resurrected, he opened his disciples’ eyes to see things in the Scriptures they had never seen before. The Bible is a complicated book that requires a spiritual and scholarly approach to understand it in its fullness. In this message, Jamin gives a few examples from some unusual passages to make his point.
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God’s Holy Ones
Today I got to preach at my alma mater’s chapel service about some angelology and identity themes. You can watch Spring Arbor University’s service altogether or jump to 28:57 for my message. Thanks for having me out SAU!
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The Compassion of Jesus
I recently started a second pastoral position over at David’s Promise, which is a church that was created for adults with disabilities in mind—autism in particular. In this message, I look at how the compassion of Jesus greatly influenced how he did ministry, and how such compassion should affect our lives.
