What if our modern theology of politics is far too simple—and dangerously wrong? The Bible doesn’t paint a picture where every ruler is handpicked by God in a neat, predictable way. Instead, it reveals a cosmic drama of spiritual powers, human leaders, and seats of authority that can be used for justice—or deeply abused. To…
Watching joy swell up inside someone is a wonderful thing to witness. You may recall seeing it happen to Mary in the Christmas story. One moment she’s talking to her relative Elizabeth about how God has supernaturally blessed her with a baby and the next she’s bursting into song (Luke 1:39-56). It makes for a…
It seems that we think that if we’re going to be good Christians, we have to be as serious as possible. If I make the right worship “stank-face” I’m getting closer to God right? The more serious and desperate I look the more present he is, yes? Try telling that to David who was so…
With another winter season of the JXN Cloud comes our 2nd annual Yule log! In this exciting video, we silently drink hot chocolate. There has truly never been a more action-packed Yule log to put on in the background of your house. What a time to be alive!
Paul did not want the Gentiles to become Jewish, which is why he was so vocally against the Gentiles being circumcised and following the same Jewish laws and customs that he did. To force them to do such things would be to pervert the gospel, since the whole point of the gospel was for God’s…
In this message, we take a journey throughout the theme of priesthood and sacred space, and then we hone in on how the coming messiah was an instillation of hope into these themes.
Since the pandemic started, God has felt strangely distant to many. Is there any Biblical precedent to that or is it just the way we feel? Since God is omnipresent, should we always sense his presence to the fullest degree from one day to the next, or does he sometimes pull back to a certain…
In my first few months of pastoring, I decided I was going to preach on the topic of joy. Our newly relaunched church was that of two churches becoming one and this brought with it some awkwardness and confusion. We had to figure out who we were and what pieces of each church would continue…
Today we often act as though priests and pastors are the ones who need to usher us into sacred space to meet with God, but the Bible calls Christians a “royal priesthood.” That’s a huge statement, given that priests in the Bible were meditators between God and humanity. In this episode we give a condensed…
Since the pandemic hit, everyone has lost something. Join us for our Grieving Service at 1208 Greenwood Church on Wednesday, December 8th from 6:30-7:30pm, where we’ll bring our pain before God as a community.
Jamin Bradley 