A New Model for 1208

The last few years have been a long journey. From the rise of dinner church to the crash of the pandemic, to the attempt to restart dinner church, to the pause to pray all summer. But now our board comes forward with a new direction that we think fits all of the words we’ve been hearing from the Spirit and something that matches our DNA as 1208 and as Church in general.

The First Two Rules of Communication

Professor Mark Edwards continues to help us understand how to replace bad habits. In this episode he gives us the first two rules of communication so that we can have better conversations and better establish what’s going on in our hearts and minds.

A Conversation in Replacing Bad Habits

In this experiment, Professor Mark Edwards takes us deeper into the principles of getting rid of bad habits and replacing them with good ones. He sets us up for a conversation at our tables and then we come back together to talk about what we've learned.

Piecing it Together

In this experiment, Jamin takes a plethora of words, dreams, and visions given to 1208 over the years and tries to piece together the themes in front of everyone as we move into our next season.

The Prophets Call Us to the Poor

There are two major streams of the prophetic in the church today. One form is of a more supernatural perspective, where God speaks to people and they speak out his word. The other form is of a more natural perspective, where the poor are preached about and actions are taken to provide for them. But these two streams shouldn't be separated. If God truly is supernaturally speaking to us, he will at some point speak to us about the poor. The prophetic life is both supernatural and natural—preaching and action.

The New Creation Spirit of Pentecost

As the mighty rushing wind of the Holy Spirit blows through the early church, their lives are empowered and transformed into something different. The new creation to come begins to burst out of these Christians in power, in character, and even sociologically.

Walls and Poison

As Jamin went to pray, a dream he had about 1208 that morning popped into his mind. As he reflected on it, he felt it important to lean into the themes found there. And out of those themes came this message, calling the post-pandemic church out of apathy.

Replacement Principles

In this message, Professor Mark Edwards brings us a great teaching on the importance of replacement. It doesn't work well for us to simply stop doing something—we must replace bad things with good things as the Holy Spirit grows his fruit in us. Mark takes these principles in directions that feed well into our sociology and our personal lives.

The Armor of Spiritual Warfare

While Jamin's been engaging in spiritual warfare over the last few months, he's been reflecting on the importance of wearing the armor of God. In this message, he hones in on a few thoughts from Ephesians 6 that have come up along the way.

Ministry with the Spirit

So often we do ministry without the Holy Spirit, but that was never Jesus's intent. In this message Jamin calls us to be faithful to the giftings the Holy Spirit has given us so that we can do ministry well and so that in our faithfulness, we might receive additional empowerment to do more.

The Intimacy of God's Presence

In this message, Jamin highlights the place to which our time worshipping can lead.

To go deeper in this conversation, check out Jamin's blog: https://jaminbradley.com/2021/12/18/god-romantic-language-and-sex/

Emotion and Worship Music

In this message, Jamin shares his emotional journey with worship music and then asks a few questions. Is it okay to be emotional in worship music? What's does the Bible say about that? Are people really feeling the Holy Spirit or is it just their own emotion?

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.