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Church Broadcasting Software
Having edited videos for over 15 years, I wasn’t too nervous about doing “online church” when the pandemic first hit. I knew how to record our services ahead of time and make them look nice. My real fear was what kind of online service I would have to offer once we were back in-person. There simply wasn’t…
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Paul’s Theological Adjustment
In ancient times, religion and state were the same thing. Therefore, you can imagine how difficult it was for the Jews to understand their theology when (A) some started to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, (B) the Messiah wanted non-Jewish people to join their religion/state, and (C) those non-Jewish people didn’t practice any of…
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John Wesley VS Zombies
Kindle Vella has now officially launched and you can read my first chapter of “John Wesley VS Zombies” for free in attempts to convince me to keep writing! In this book, I remove no text from John Wesley’s journals—I just add text in to make it more… dramatic… Actually, John Wesley’s journals are quite interesting…
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Lofi Worship: John Mark McMillan
Lofi music has gotten me through a lot of work and writing over the years. That being said, I thought we at the JXN Cloud would make one of our own Lofi videos, featuring our own Olivia as “Lofi Girl” and 4 of my lofi reimaginings of John Mark McMillan songs. Enjoy! If you want…
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Four Hour Justice
In today’s episode we talk about the Snyder cut of Justice League and find ourselves talking about how superhero movies (especially in the DC world) seem to be retelling some of the mythologies of old.
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My Foreword to Uni’s New Book
When I released my first book, A Taste of Jesus, my friend and fellow pastor Myisha “Uni” Cunningham was kind enough to write the foreword. Now I’ve been given the chance to return the favor by writing the foreword for her new book, Wrestling With God: The Messy Battle, which was just released on Kindle.…
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A Quiet Place 2 in a Quiet Theater, Too
We saw A Quiet Place 2 opening night! In this episode we chat about how much we enjoyed it and then talk a bit about themes like hope, aliens, and the apocalyptic.
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God as Abba, Patēr
Throughout the Old Testament there are many different names given to God, the most popular being Yahweh or “LORD” (used 6,800 times) followed by Elohim or “God” (used 2,500 times). But Jesus liked to use the word Patēr or “Father” in reference to God, which as R.T. France points out, “was distinctive of him, not…
