My new book, Fantasy IRL: Glimpses of a Hidden World, is now available in paperback and kindle through Amazon! Here’s what it’s all about: The fantasy worlds painted for us in our favorite books are not quite as far away from real life as some might think. The spiritual world of the Bible is dense. In the…
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Mission Expansion
In today’s podcast episode, we talk about Pentecost and our mission at 1208. Pentecost is not only about Holy Spirit empowerment, but it’s also about what we’re empowered to do: To go into the nations and pull people out of the grip of other spiritual entities and bring them into adoption as children of the…
The Return of the Giants
While the Nephilim don’t get mentioned again until Numbers 13, the Bible in its entirety show us that there are clans of giants mentioned by other names as early as Genesis 14—just a few chapters after their origin story in Genesis 6. Seeing this requires us to pay close attention to sections of the Bible…
What Did Jesus Do While He Was Dead?
To answer this question, we need to take a look at 2 Peter and Jude, but a little bit of background is going to be necessary first. Some of the strange sayings in 2 Peter and Jude come from the story communicated in 1 Enoch. This means that while 1 Enoch is not a part…
Seventy
Sometimes geography is known in numbers. There are 50 states. There are 7 continents. For the ancients, geography was seen in the number 70, which was the number of the nations that made up the world after the great flood of Noah’s time. Why does this matter? Well, as we continue into the Bible in…
