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The Angel of the Abyss
The first four angelic trumpets fly by pretty quick in Revelation, but things slow down when the fifth trumpet sounds. Suddenly there’s an angel with a key to the Abyss and weird locusts and all kinds of things. Who’s this angel? What are the locusts? In this episode we frame the angel as a bad…
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Death by Sermon
We’ve all had different reactions to our sermons, but my friend’s takes the cake. While he was preaching one Sunday, an older woman gave out a loud groan and died. An ambulance was immediately called as a top notch doctor in the congregation started to check in on her. Unsure of what to do, my…
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When a Person Becomes a Mob
I first learned about harm reduction while serving on the Drug Free Jackson coalition. The premise is pretty simple, though controversial for many: Since drug addiction cannot be solved by saying, “just stop it,” we need to figure out how to reduce the harm that addiction causes while we try to lead addicts toward recovery.…
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That New Space Picture
Everybody’s been sharing that sweet picture of space that was released yesterday. When many realize how big the universe is, one of their next questions is, “Do aliens exist?” I’ll bite! In my book, Alien Theology, I address why Christians shouldn’t have a theological problem with the possibility of aliens (though I don’t necessarily believe…
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An Emergency Exorcism
“Really? You brought Jamin?” the demon laughed as we entered the room, listing off each of our names and messing some of them up. Our small deliverance team had arrived about an hour into the manifestation after getting an emergency call. The room was a mess and would continue to get worse as we watched…
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Teachers Like Apollos
Alexandria was the intellectual center of ancient Greece, home to an ancient university and library that was packed full of some 700,000 resources. That being said, it shouldn’t come as a shock that it’s in this city that we meet a popular and wise teacher in the early church named Apollos. While the Bible says…
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Bi-Vocational Pastors
As tithing has dropped across the church over the years, many pastors have had to become bi-vocational. This seems odd to some who are unable to think of a pastor being anything other than a pastor, but bi-vocational pastors are not a new thing. Indeed, the Apostle Paul made a habit of generating income through…
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+3 to Wisdom
As my D&D players entered a beautiful garden, the King explained why he had called them there and gave them orders. When he was done, he invited them to take a look around the garden. They were soon called over to a glistening pond by an angelic being. “I see you just got done talking…
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“That’s You.”
Ten years ago I had a dream that I was in a desolate land where a bunch of people were being kept in a prison. While the intimidating appearance of the prison made it look like no one could escape, it actually seemed that it wouldn’t be that hard to break out of. That being…
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What God is Up to at 1208 Greenwood Church
Back in 2015, a congregant shared a dream he had about our church. In that dream he met a little Latino girl and her family, all of whom had been oppressed. Eventually in the dream, there was a white, dazzling tree and flying out of it was a pure white dove that got larger as…
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