Jamin Bradley

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

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  • Our New Model of Church

    I am so excited for this next season of ministry at 1208! In just a few short weeks on September 11th, we’ll be launching a new model that hits on the core of who we are and what we’ve been trying to do in our community. Let me see if I can quickly summarize it…

  • Social Media Q&A: Ep 2

    Can you explain what the crowns in heaven are, what they are given for? And does that not suggest works over grace? I think E.P. Sanders summarized the works vs grace conundrum best when he said, “Salvation is by grace, but judgment is according to works. Works are the condition of remaining ‘in,’ but they…

  • Well Done

    In 2018 a group of strangers came by our church to pray for us and they shared a lot of really powerful words that God had put on their hearts—words that went on to become experientially true. But there was one simple word a woman prayed in that moment that hit unexpectedly hard for me:…

  • Social Media Q&A: Episode 1

    1. Did Adam or Eve have belly buttons? | I suppose that depends on the avenue you take. I don’t see a Biblical problem with God creating us by means of science (like evolution) and so I would say yes, they had belly buttons. Though there is a Biblical middle ground that scientist S. Joshua…

  • Two Thousand Years Later…

    “Jesus is coming back soon!” my friend said as tears swelled up in her eyes like they always did when she got into this topic. “We need to be ready!” It’s hard to know how to react. After all, Christians have been saying this exact thing for two thousand years, and while I hate to…

  • A Surprisingly Common Bible Reference

    There are a few Old Testament passages that get quoted in the New Testament with regularity, but I think the most surprising one is Isaiah 6:9-10. “Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes;…

  • Crowds and Miracles

    When I was younger, I thought supernatural miracles were non-existent at worst or seldom at best. I never really heard any prayers for people to be healed—just prayers that God “guide the doctors hands.” But history is jam-packed with miracles even into today. In fact, to qualify as a saint in the Catholic Church, the…

  • Your Blessing May Bless Bystanders

    It may sound strange, but occasionally the lives of non-Christian bystanders are going to get caught up in the blessings of your Christian life. For example, the 276 prisoners and guards aboard Paul’s boat to Rome may have very well been killed in the storm they encountered. The fact that they were caught in the…

  • Optimism in the Storm

    When the pandemic hit, it was followed by one tragedy after another. First it was Covid, then isolation, then racism, then conspiracies, then insurrection, then assassination plots, then more Covid, and so on. And through it all the church shrunk, either because pastors addressed the world’s problems and people didn’t like it or because they…

  • Choked Out by Disney

    After a woman came into our church and declared to everyone that she had a dream that I would cast out a demon, I soon found myself doing just that. I worked with a person for the next two months, pushing through every confusing roadblock we came across until we finally had a big victory…