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The Ironic and Insulting Inauguration of King Jesus
Inaugurations are always spectacles. This was also true for Jesus’ inauguration as King of the Earth, but unlike the pomp and circumstance of most inaugurations, Jesus’ was a spectacle soaked in irony and insults. Yes, he wore a crown, but it was constructed out of thorns that jabbed into his scalp. Yes, he was given…
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Dream Warnings and Political Leaders
On August 2nd, 1990, Saddam Hussein ordered an invasion of Kuwait, which led to his soldiers breaking into Maurice Graham’s apartment, a missionary located in Kuwait City. Once the soldiers left, Maurice and his family managed a rather miraculous escape where they all crammed into a car and drove past soldiers who didn’t even seem…
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Curses and Demons
After Jesus had been taken, Peter certainly went the distance to separate himself from Jesus. The third time he denied knowing Jesus, the Bible actually says he invoked a curse on himself. This often sounds dumb to us, as we imagine Peter wearing a witch hat and standing in front of a big boiling cauldron…
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The Water Bottle Scene
There’s a movie that likes to flashback to various moments in people’s lives to show you how all of the character’s pasts fit together in the plot. At one point the movie comedically zooms in on a water bottle and tells us all the things that happened to it since it was bought and how…
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Our New Church Model Featured on JTV
Learn more about our new church model launching September 11th and everything else we’re up to at 1208!
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The Religious Leaders and the God-Man
What would you do if someone told you they were God? If you weren’t religious, you’d probably think they were crazy and laugh. But if you were religious, you’d likely be offended and appalled. The religious leaders were looking for any reason they could to kill Jesus and stop his movement. It didn’t matter that…
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National Trauma and the Jesus Ethic
Trauma has a way of trickling down into our psyche and shading the world we see with dull colors. Even if we haven’t had anything overly traumatic happen to us specifically, we still find ourselves born into a world of trauma and carry it in our various national, ethnic, and socio-economic identities. As scholar Shelly…
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AI Draws Art for My Fiction
I published one novel a few years back called “The Rise of the Water Kingdom.” Today I ran a few of its scenes through an AI art generator called MidJourney to get these depictions created. More info on the book below: Angels and demons. Zombies and ghosts. Water serpents and cyborg dragons. Heaven and Hell.…
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Holy Holy Homeless
This morning I had a dream that there was a woman leading Revelation Song with a blanket over the top half of her body with someone else’s legs sticking out the bottom of the blanket. This looked about as strange as you might imagine. I tried to comprehend what I was looking at as she…
Jamin Bradley 