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Don’t Tithe
This may be the most financially dangerous message Jamin has ever preached! Or if you catch the point of it, it may be the most financially empowering! In this message, Jamin explains how tithing is an Old Testament notion, not a New Testament one. Giving to the tabernacle and giving to the church are two…
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The Cloud Rider
We often associate clouds with power. In modern media, we depict clouds as a place where superheroes belong. We revel in the marvels of modern technology, recognizing that humans have become powerful enough to make their way past the clouds in gigantic double-decker airplanes. And, of course, we naturally associate power with clouds as we…
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When a Whole People Mediate the Divine
In ancient Israel, it was a priest’s job to bring humanity before God. They were Levites who carried out many tasks. They took care of the sacred space in which God’s manifest presence dwelt, they made sacrifices on behalf of the people of God, they offered visitors counsel, they served as judges on difficult legal…
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The Grammar Scribe Who Missed the Point
We often remember scribes as the people who copied manuscripts in the ancient world, but they actually did a lot more than that. Indeed, a big part of the reason they were chosen to copy manuscripts is because of everything else they were trained to do. It was their job to teach and interpret important…
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Your Unique Image of God
Christians are often found saying things like, “All of you God and none of me.” While the sentiment of such a statement can be appreciated, it’s not exactly a Biblical perspective of who we are as humans. God is not looking for Christians to become a homogenous group of people that are unidentifiable from each…
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The War of Time
Of all the names God could have given Moses for himself, he chose YHWH, which scholars often refer to as the tetragrammaton. While this sounds like a name for a Transformer, it comes from the Greek tetra (four) and grammaton (letter). In Hebrew these four letters are often translated as, “I Am Who I Am.”…
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Jesus: Ruler of the Kings of Earth
Christians are weird about politics. If they’re in favor of a president, they’re quick to use the Scriptures to tell us that God puts all authorities in charge and that we are to follow and respect them. This simple-minded, blanket-statement theology immediately falls flat once someone like Hitler is in office, but we’re willing to…
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Fantastic Movie Podcast: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Everything Everywhere All At Once has set a new high for absurdity in movies, but its writers manage to use this storytelling technique to say a lot about the world and our place in it. Pastors Dallas Flippin and Jamin Bradley dive into the spiritual and biblical themes that this movie holds just in time…
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The Firstborn of the Dead
Chances are that you’ve probably met someone who’s been dead before, because in modern society death is temporary before it’s permanent. There’s always that narrow window in which someone can be revived and have their blood start flowing again. For this reason, death is scary, but not as scary as it used to be. Hope…
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Martys
Remember back when the word “literally” meant literally? We used to use the word as a way of explaining the exact way in which something happened, but now dictionaries have changed the meaning because we all use it to embellish things that never really happened. That’s a pretty drastic change of definition, but culture has…
