The Already But Not Yet of Resurrection

Resurrection began on Easter as Jesus became the firstborn of the dead. But the Bible's wider portrait of resurrection shows us not only that we're the secondborn, but that resurrection has already begun in us now.

The Upside Down World of King Jesus

Most evangelicals preach that Jesus didn't come looking to take over through power, politics, and violence, but our actions the last few years have shown that we only believe this theologically, not practically. In this Palm Sunday message, Jamin reminds us what the upside down kingdom of world of Jesus is really like, and that if we are to truly treat him as King, we will have to live the same way.

When Worship Music Becomes Industry

The world of Contemporary Christian Music has changed over the last few decades into the world of the Worship Music Industry. While countless great worship songs have come out of this movement, so have many dishonest and theologically flawed songs. As worship music grows more and more plentiful, we must learn to be wise in the kind of worship music we expose ourselves and our churches too.

Supernatural Worship Music in the Bible

For many, worship music is just a thing we do before the message is preached. But in the Bible there are often supernatural components and manifestations that overlap with music. We take a look at a few of these Biblical stories as we kick off our new series on worship music.

Inner Healing and Demons

Demon stories throughout the gospels are often quick and sometimes confusing. In this message Jamin explains deliverance ministry by using both Scripture and the common methods and traditions of practiced deliverance ministers—especially those with Ph.D's in counseling ministry.

A Live Mental Sacred Space Experience

In this episode, we had a brave soul that was willing to come up on stage and allow us to guide them through inner healing within their own mental sacred space. (We talked about how to create one of these spaces in our episode, "Creating a Sacred Space in the Mind," S14, E2.) As we did this, everyone got a chance to see how this space can be used to engage the Holy Spirit and how he can bring about inner healing as he guides us through our painful memories.

Breaking Down Barriers with God

Everyone that believes in God eventually has to face a theological conundrum: God loves us and has all the power, yet unloving things happen to us that he could have technically prevented. This causes many to feel as though they need to forgive God.

But that can't be right because God cannot sin as it's against his very nature. Therefore, there's nothing we need to forgive him for, for he owes us no debt. How then, do we deal with the barriers we've created that hold God far away from us due to the pain and suffering we've endured in this world? How do we release him from a blame that doesn't belong on him? That's what we address in this message within our inner healing series—for if we want to get closer to the source of inner healing, we need to first break down the barriers we've put up between us and God.

Forgiving Yourself

There are some people who, for whatever reason, are quite capable of forgiving others but incapable of forgiving themselves. Such people might even need to ask others to constantly forgive them for something they've already been forgiven for.

In this message we talk about the spiritual importance of not just forgiving others for their sin, but forgiving ourselves too.

Cleansing By Forgiveness

To summarize Jesus's teachings on forgiveness: do it always and do it quick. That's a hard lesson to learn and a difficult one to process. In this message Jamin talks more about what forgiveness is and isn't, and why it matters from a spiritual perspective.

Creating a Sacred Space in the Mind

In this deeply experiential message, Jamin leads 1208 in creating a sacred space to meet with God in the mind, which is a spiritual tactic that has proven itself effective for him and others over and over throughout the years.

Cleansing Sacred Space

To kick off our new series on inner healing, Jamin first talks about geographical locations and the authority we have as Christians to cleanse it and invite the Holy Spirit into it. This will lead to further discussion on cleansing our bodies as sacred space for the Holy Spirit.

Reading Scripture with the Spirit

In our last message on Romans, we hit on three quick themes: (1) Paul's women in ministry, (2) Paul's desire to take the gospel to the ends of the earth and (3) how the Holy Spirit brought the Old Testament to life for Paul and the other New Testament writers with fresh revelation.

When the Bible Quotes Itself Out of Context

In Bible school, students are taught to never take the Bible out of context when they quote it. Yet the Bible does this quite often. Why is that?

Discerning the Issues

Some issues in the church are not worth fighting over and some are. In this episode, we see Paul address a few issues that aren't worth fighting over in the church.

Love One Another

Paul had clearly caught onto the vision of love as Jesus' central component of the gospel. Jamin addresses this in Romans 13 and then shares some of his own journey on this topic.

The Cosmological Government

When we think of government, we often miss the much larger picture the Bible paints of the physical and spiritual worlds blending together. In this message, Jamin looks at Romans 13 (which is often misapplied for people to endorse anything their favorite political leader does) and sets it in the larger cosmological landscape of the Bible.

Saul and Paul

The same Paul that calls Christians to live in such loving ways in Romans is the same Paul that once persecuted the church. How did he undergo such transformation? We take a look at his story in today's episode of the 1208PODCAST.

Prince of Peace

When we think of the nations, peace is not typically the first thing that comes to our mind. Instead, we often think of wars fought and the things that make us different. But the Prince of Peace has come to change that.

The Hope to Return to Sacred Space

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.

Does God Move in Waves?

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 extent? And if he does, then why? We cover these thoughts and more in this message.