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Angels in Chains

Jude not only references a strange story from Genesis 6, but he also references a book called 1 Enoch, which elaborates immensely on this strange story. Why does he jump into this content? Jamin helps us get a deeper understanding of this story and what it meant for Jude.

Remember How Jesus Led Israel Out of Egypt?

Among the many puzzling statements Jude makes, he says, "Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe." Out of all the Trinity members Jude could use in this statement, why did he choose Jesus? Being a lover of weird theology, Jamin gives a reason as to why this statement makes more sense than one might think.

Stop Calling Everyone a Heretic

Today we start a new short series on the book of Jude. In this message, Jamin calls Christians to calm down on blowing the heresy horn. Jude had to deal with false teachers who were building Christianity around immorality and rebellion. This is vastly different from how Christians fight over their different theological and doctrinal beliefs today. We must learn what is worth fighting about and what is okay to disagree on.

Streams of Living Water

Ezekiel once had a vision of a deep stream of water flowing out of the temple into the Dead Sea, bringing life to everything it touched along the way. In this message, Jamin connects the stream to a few of Jesus' statements and explains why this vision is important for Christians today.

A Fire in the Bones

As Ezekiel 33 shows us, the prophetic role is a heavy one. While we may not all be prophets like Ezekiel was, the capacity to operate in prophetic gifting lies in each one of us since all Christians have the Holy Spirit. Jamin takes us deeper into this dynamic in this podcast episode.

Evangelism in Ambiguous Spaces

Philip the Evangelist is sent by an angel and the Holy Spirit to evangelize a very ambiguous person in his time. Jamin uses this story as a springboard to explain how we must put down our walls and patiently reach all people, regardless of their differences. He pulls many stories from his own life along the way to illustrate this point.

The Wisdom of God

We all claim to want the wisdom of God, but we are more prone to take out messengers of such wisdom when they come around. Though Jesus was wisdom itself, religious people remained very skeptical of him. Though Stephen spoke with the same kind of wisdom, he was martyred for his teachings. What wisdom does God want to speak to us through the Holy Spirit and will we listen when he does? Or will we join hands with the religious leaders who rejected such teachings?

God in Memory

It's easy to be in awe of God in the moments when he's very active, but we can often forget in time. Jamin talks about the importance of recording your story so that God can speak through experience.

Dealing with Rejection in Patient Evangelism

While God goes ahead of us in evangelism, he also sends us ahead of him in evangelism. Jamin talks about this dynamic while he reflects on the passage of Jesus sending the 72 disciples out ahead of him.

Pentecost Sunday

For this Pentecost Sunday, Jamin tells many stories from his life with his college mentor Ken Brewer, who passed away this week. Ken operated as Jamin's own personal Pentecost event and changed the direction of his faith and pneumatology forever.

Disrupting the Domination System

The Kingdom of Heaven works differently than the Kingdoms of Earth, and King Jesus gives us Heaven's disruptive strategies so we might subversively install his kingdom in our midst.

Collaborating with God

In Numbers 9, it's pretty clear that Israel didn't move unless God's cloud or fire led them somewhere else. But in Numbers 10, a team of Israelites sought a place to go next, and the cloud went with them. What do we do with these opposing stories? Jamin offers a suggestion based on the dynamic found throughout the rest of the Bible and in our own lives.

Christians and Politics

Few topics are messier than that of Christians and politics. Depending on what part of the Bible you read, you'll be told to listen to everything the government says or to challenge it prophetically. When do we challenge? How do we challenge? Why do we challenge? As Jamin wraps up his master's degree on theology and social justice, he uses 1 Peter as a springboard to look at the conversation from a physical and spiritual view and gives some points for action in the here and now.

Shine, Moses Shine

Sometimes you have an experience of God that is so great that everything changes and revolves around that moment. Moses had plenty of such moments, but we often reflect on his experience on the mountaintop with God. In this message, Jamin gets into several topics related to cosmology, spirituality, theosis, the image of God, spiritual gifts, and, most importantly, the intimacy of God.

Creating a Symbolic Atmosphere

God is an artisan. When he told Moses to create a Tabernacle, he had very specific symbols, materials, and objects he wanted integrated into the space with different meanings attached. We, too, create atmospheres with the objects we have. In this message, Jamin talks about some of the objects he has and creates that help him focus on Jesus and engage in worship.

Jesus the Sentient Rock

There's a strange story in the Old Testament where Moses brings water out of a rock. This turns into an even stranger story where that rock is said to move around and be Jesus himself. What's going on here? Jamin gives some insight into these passages and why they matter today.

Reveal: Q&A with Jamin, Aimee, and Kyle

Jamin, Aimee, and Kyle answer questions related to healing after preaching their messages at Reveal.

Reveal: Dying Well

While we are supernaturalists who believe in healing, we are also naturalists who recognize we will all die this side of the resurrection. That being said, how do we die well? We asked Kyle Herrick, a local hospice chaplain, to educate us on this topic.

Reveal: Healing Precautions

In this special message at Reveal Jackson, Aimee Coolbaugh shares about how healing ministry can go wrong.

Reveal: How Jesus Healed

In this teaching, Jamin engages the crowd at Reveal Jackson by having them read through healing stories in the gospels. Together, they tallied up the common themes they saw so that they could learn how Jesus healed. NOTE: Apologies, as our mic does not pick up comments from the crowd.

King Jesus Tours the Cosmos

In this Easter message, Jamin pulls out a whiteboard to take us on a tour of the cosmos and explain how Jesus has become king of the whole thing.

God's Descendants and the Serpent's Descendants

The theme of God's kingdom arises throughout the entirety of the Bible. It is what God wants to install on the earth, is installing on the earth, and will install on the earth. But in this age, God's descendants often run up against the descendants of the serpent, who is trying to build his own kingdom through his own descendants.

The Stubbornness of Moses

We're often so lost in the wonder of the fiery bush that we don't notice how noncompliant Moses was. His combativeness caused God to offer him a concession that would complicate his future.

God of the Crisscross

When Jacob goes to bless his grandsons, he flips his hands around in the tradition of the men of his line. Despite his many misunderstandings of God, he has come to learn something about him: God tends to do things differently.

The Demons Knew Jesus

We weren't really expecting the messiah to be an exorcist, but he was. Why did demons listen to him and why were they afraid of him? Jamin offers some ideas.

Where Faith Might Lead

Hebrews gives us a long list of stories of Bible characters who saw miracles as they stayed faithful to God. Jamin shares some of these stories and more throughout history that have happened as people have remained faithful.

The High Priest of High Priests

There is a heavenly temple and an earthly temple. The high priests were only allowed into the inner parts of the earthly temple, but Jesus walked into both. What does this mean for him and for us?

A Little White

“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.” In this message, Jamin speaks on how Jesus’ phrasing here worked on his heart.

You Can Increase God's Glory

It's hard to narrow the word glory down because it has a lot of meanings in the Bible. In this message, Jamin works off Matthew Bates' book, "Why the Gospel?," to describe God's glory in a way that implies fame. From this point of view, you actually have the ability to increase God's glory. Jamin explains what he means.

Children of Light

In Ephesians 5, Paul talks about light, darkness, and our place in it. Jamin dives into this theme on both a scientific and spiritual level.

Love and Growth

God loves us just as we are. This is good theology. God wants us to grow. This is also good theology. In this message, Jamin identifies this dynamic and talks about how it played out in his life in a powerful way.

Biblical Mythology

Mythology is a great genre of literature for telling true stories that didn't always happen—or at least didn't happen that way exactly. In this message, Jamin takes a look at the story of Noah's flood and offers a mythological perspective of the tale.

The Creation Story

Many people are so focused on debating if the creation story happened literally or not and miss the many important statements it has to make about our identity and place in the world. Jamin hits on seven important points that get buried under the debate.

An Ostracizing Miracle

In this message Jamin gives us a chance to dive into the minds and lives of Mary and Joseph, whose miracle was both incredible and ostracizing. How far would we go to carry a miracle?

The Spiritual Becoming Physical

In this message, Jamin explains the importance of Jesus being fully God, but also the importance of him being made of both Heaven and Earth for resurrection purposes.

Scripture, Scribe, and Spirit

After Jesus was resurrected, he opened his disciple's eyes to see things in the Scriptures they had never seen before. The Bible is a complicated book that requires a spiritual and scholarly approach to understand it in its fullness. In this message, Jamin gives a few examples from some unusual passages to make his point.

Did Not Our Hearts Burn Within Us?

One of the marks that caused the disciples to realize they had experienced the resurrected Jesus was that their hearts burned within them. In this message, Jamin talks about the importance of sensing and discerning the movement of the Holy Spirit through our bodies—be it in our physical senses or our emotional feelings.

Remember What He Told You?

Jesus prophetically relayed his coming death to his disciples several times, but it seemed to go in one ear and out the other. The angels reminded them at the tomb, saying, "Remember what he told you?" Jamin uses this statement to discuss the importance of holding onto prophetic words.

Temperature Control

In this message, Jamin reads quite a bit of the ending of Luke in hopes of helping us feel everything that Jesus went through for us. This, of course, should encourage us to give everything we have to Christ in return. We must check the temperature of our lives so that Christ might find us hot—not lukewarm or cold.

Follow the Signs

When Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane, he becomes desperate in prayer, asking God for another way. But he follows the signs and impressions he receives, including an angel sent to him at that moment. What signs are we following?

Why Do You Call Me Good?

After a man calls Jesus, "Good Teacher," he responds strangely: "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone." But Jesus is God, so why does he say this? On a more personal note, do we recognize God's goodness as Jesus did? How might it affect us if we don't?

Those Considered Worthy

Christians often demean themselves with degrading words, but the words Jesus uses to describe the resurrected are quite glorious. They are "considered worthy," "equal to the angels," and are "children of God." How do we see our identity? Does it line up with the way Jesus sees us? How might our lives be different if we did see ourselves this way?

Our Strange Cornerstone

A good cornerstone is crucial to constructing a building, but Jesus identifies himself as a rejected cornerstone. In this message, we look at some of the reasons why people might have rejected Jesus as a cornerstone and ask ourselves if we still do the same thing today.

The Kingdom Can't Be Observed

Christians are known for declaring where the Kingdom of Heaven is, but Jesus said it couldn't be observed and that there's no way we could miss it when it finally came. But he also said the kingdom was within us right here and now. What does this all mean for us today?

Lost Things

Jamin reads three of Jesus' parables back to back, the most famous one being the Prodigal Son. Jesus tells these parables to defend himself against the Pharisees regarding why he hangs out with sinners. What might we learn from his actions?

Reveal 2023: Supernatural Justice

Reveal 2023: The Gift of Prophecy

It's a special Reveal Jackson 2023 episode! Ken Brewer dives into the Bible to show us what the gift of prophecy is and how it works.

The Banquet Parables

Jesus tells three parables back to back in Luke about banquets, which teach us how to live and act in heavenly, backward ways. Dive into these parables with us as we discuss humility, the poor, and being "all in."

They Didn't Like the Prophets and Maybe You Don't Either

Instead of recognizing Jerusalem as the place where prophets are honored, he recognized it as the place where prophets go to die. Jamin homes in on this theme, setting us up early for Reveal Jackson 2023 on September 23rd.

The Church and Disability

In this message, Jamin shares several lists from Amy Kenny's book, "My Body is Not a Prayer Request," to help us get a better social understanding of what disabled people deal with in life and the church. Jamin then encourages us to love our disabled brothers and sisters in better, non-ableist ways—exactly as they are.