Healing

Jamin takes a brief look at all the healing stories in Matthew's Gospel and then talks about how he came in contact with a Holy Spirit who still heals today.

Ishmael

Our soap opera of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, and now Ishmael continues with more family drama and supernatural experiences.

The King Enters Jerusalem

In today's passage, Jesus enters the sacred city Jerusalem and the city celebrates him like a king. But Jesus' inauguration is very backwards from the kind we know.

The Fringes

A giant crowd gathers around Jesus at Jericho, but Jesus' attention is on two blind guys on the fringes. Jamin shares some stories about going to the fringes and how we must strive to do so as Christians.

A Biblical Soap Opera

In today's Bible passage we see how Abraham and Sarah repeat the actions of Adam and Eve.

Writing for Nerd Church

We recently expanded on our mission to “create space, foster growth, love people, and love God,” by implementing the longterm vision to plant churches inside of our building that create space to reach those we’re not currently reaching. One of these churches was called, “Nerd Church,” but has now been aptly renamed, “1208-Bit.” It will be the first official launch of a 1208 church outside of our Sunday night dinner church.

I did a livestream from our church Facebook page today to show some of the ways I’ve been trying to build a bridge between church and nerd culture over the years in my writing and how I’m hoping these books will be helpful in our outreach to my fellow nerds in town. It’s an attempt to do what Paul did in Acts and use people’s culture to strike up a conversation with them.

I don’t necessarily plan on anyone buying these books at our advertising launch at MeggaXP (our city’s version of ComicCon), but I’ll have a few copies of my nerdier books present at our booth to strike up conversations and show people that we embrace all kinds of conversations that are sometimes shoved under the rug in church. We’ll also be handing out flyers that advertise our upcoming game night events, which will eventually evolve into the official launch of 1208-Bit come late fall/early winter.

Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?

Guest speaker Pastor Ranay Brown takes us into the complicated question people have been asking for ages.

Cutting Covenants

Covenants were a big deal in ancient times. And that's part of what makes the details of God's covenant with Abraham so interesting.

Assumptions

Our guest speaker, Pastor Ranay Brown, brings us a message from Isaiah that reminds us not to assume things about the people around us.

The Sons of Thunder

James and John, "The Sons of Thunder," seem to have possibly gained their nickname from their intensity, as exemplified in stories like the one we focus on here. But Jesus calls them to another way.

Number the Stars

Abraham is told to "number the stars" as an analogy towards how many children he will have. But in Abraham's world, stars would have fed this analogy in another light—the same light that Paul is going to perceive it in later in Romans.

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The Equality of Heaven

In one of Jesus' lesser known parables, we are reminded that Jesus extends the same generosity of salvation even to those who receive it late in life.

Relationships

What Jesus says in Matthew 19:1-12 about relationships has a lot to say to us today in various scenarios.

Mission Expansion

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 one and only God. Here's how we at 1208 are looking to expand upon our own mission to reach even more for Christ in Jackson.

Melchizedek

Melchizedek shows up briefly in Genesis 14, but then becomes an important character in the Psalms and later Jewish writing. Why? That is the question we address today with Hebrews' answer.

Love

Jamin takes a break in our series on Matthew to pause for a discourse on God's love.

Interview with Scott Smith

After his family introduced him to porn at age nine, Scott Smith eventually found his sex addiction sending him to Cell Block 7 of the Jackson State Prison with a life sentence. Intriguingly, this is where God got ahold of him quickly—so quickly that he was released from his life sentence in two years. Jamin got a chance to talk with Scott today to hear one of the most incredible testimonies he’s ever heard. Check it out for yourself in this week’s Midweek Edition of the 1208PODCAST.

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150,000 Years of Debt

In today's message we look at Jesus' parable about a man who was released from a great debt, just to go and force one of his own debtors pay him. In this parable, Jesus teaches us to forgive others whatever their debt, as many times as necessary, for God has forgiven us our incredible debt. But what exactly is forgiveness? A lot of people think it's forgetting or pretending something didn't happen. But that's not accurate. Jamin works off of R.T. Kendall's work to help us see what exactly forgiveness is and isn't.

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 we always ignored.

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The One

When the people closest to us suddenly vanish, we're often left with anger and a lack of desire to heal the relationship. But Jesus reveals something different in God's personality.

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