• New Ambient Album: All Things Were Made Through Him

    Need some ambient music for prayer, worship, reading, or for some church event? My new album has ya covered. There are four tracks and each is an hour so you can do what you need to do without interruption. Thanks for listening!

  • New Album: Fossores Liturgical Dinners, Vol 1.

    Every month I go to the Fossores Chapter House here in Jackson, MI, which is a place every pastor should visit. It’s always a great, refreshing time where you learn a lot, eat a lot, and build up great relationships with other ministry leaders. On the final night, some of my instrumental music is played…

  • Interview on the Para Podcast

    God’s love is justice. God’s love is extravagant. God’s love is pacifistic. God’s love is Jesus. These are just a few themes I got into with my friend, Pastor James Haldane, on the Para Podcast. I actually thoroughly enjoyed where this conversation went—especially on such a simple theme that can often be stated too simply.…

  • Three New Singles

    I’ve got three new singles out this week! I believe Descend is the best lyrics I’ve penned to date. Cherry Blossom Winter is a chill little string instrumental. And Curvature Fields is a chill little piano instrumental, which at the moment is live on Apple Music, but not Spotify yet. It should pop up tonight…

  • The Expansion of Heaven

    The modern evangelical view of the cosmos is a fairly simplistic one: all of the earth is going to burn away while Christians go to a spiritual place called Heaven.1 However, this view does not match the wider picture of the Bible. To see the full portrait, all we need to do is look at…

  • Interviewed on The Pastor’s Call Podcast

    Thanks to Joel for having me on The Pastor’s Call Podcast! You can listen on Spotify or wherever you stream your podcasts!

  • Did the Bible Flood Happen?

    So I have a co-worker that’s asking me about the ark but honestly I haven’t done a lot of research on it. Is there historical evidence to back it up? There is no evidence. There are many ancient stories about a giant flood, which implies collective memory of a large-scale event. But whether it did…

  • Renewing Our Minds to Jesus-Centric Pacifism

    Jesus’ teachings on responding to our enemies are entirely backward from ours. For him, love is the highest principle, and we are to engage with those who hurt us in pacifistic ways that turn the tables. Jamin dives into these themes in this message.

  • Arrival

    The 2016 movie Arrival has much to say about language, sacrifice, and time—and so do Dallas and Jamin! In this episode, our pastoral co-hosts dive into these themes and more as they dissect a very meaningful and philosophical sci-fi movie.

  • What’s Up with that Rich Man and Lazarus Parable?

    The story of the rich man and Lazarus is an intriguing one for several reasons: (1) it is unique to the gospel of Luke, (2) its view of Hades “is decidedly different”1 from the rest of the Bible, and (3) at face value, it seems to imply that the poor might get into Heaven simply…