• The Armor of Spiritual Warfare

    While Jamin’s been engaging in spiritual warfare over the last few months, he’s been reflecting on the importance of wearing the armor of God. In this message, he hones in on a few thoughts from Ephesians 6 that have come up along the way.

  • Backwards Babel

    Thanks to Westwinds for having me out again! In this message (starting about 22:30 in the video above) I preached through the topic connections like the Table of Nations, the Tower of Babel, the divine council, Jesus and the 70 disciples, and Pentecost.

  • Lady Wisdom is Jesus

    Lady Wisdom gives a rather interesting speech throughout the first chapters of Proverbs and then suddenly drops a theological bomb in Proverbs 8 when she speaks of how she helped God create the world. This feels a bit blasphemous at first until you see the ways in which the New Testament identifies Jesus as Lady…

  • The Dead Raised in Cameroon

    It’s always a tragedy when a child passes. In this case it was a six-year-old from Cameroon. Hours after she had been pronounced dead by the hospital, the grieving family took their daughter to a church. “Take this body away. This is not what we deal with here,” said the assistant pastor. But the lead…

  • A Convicting Vision

    As I laid down in bed for some intentional visionary meditation some years ago, I instantly found myself in an apocalyptic-looking greenhouse of sorts. “What is this place?” I asked. “The garden in your head,” I sensed the Holy Spirit respond. “What do I do to fix it up?” “Grow fruit, of course.” “I have…

  • A Gift a Day

    After months of increased fighting with a friend, I had finally hit my wall. I could see no way to repair the situation. I had done everything I could think of and was out of options. I sat in my front yard in prayer and sighed heavily in the moonlight. Then a Scripture came to…

  • Your Best Life Later

    The greatest message ever preached was the Sermon on the Mount. In it lies the politics of the Kingdom of Heaven and the backwards, upside-down, topsy-turvy ways in which the citizens/ambassadors of Heaven are to live. The world cannot receive its ethics for they make no worldly sense. Its poignancy can only be seen on…

  • Church Jealousy

    When pastors get together for meetings there are often a few different personality types at the table. Type A is exhausted. Their ministry is falling apart (again) and they don’t know what to do. Type B is embellishing. Maybe it’s to encourage themselves, maybe it’s to feel accepted. Type C is doing good. They know…

  • Ministry with the Spirit

    So often we do ministry without the Holy Spirit, but that was never Jesus’s intent. In this message Jamin calls us to be faithful to the giftings the Holy Spirit has given us so that we can do ministry well and so that in our faithfulness, we might receive additional empowerment to do more.

  • Uncomfortable Church

    “I’m afraid I’d be too comfortable here,” a visitor once told me. I couldn’t help but laugh. “I can’t say I’ve heard that one before.” Many people love what we’re doing and celebrate us from afar, but few people actually commit to staying with us. Our stories are part of the reason why. Two people…