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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.

Much Required

While rest and sabbath are important, we can sometimes turn such moments into apathy and laziness. As Christians, our job is to bring Heaven to earth, and we have all been gifted in unique ways to do so. Jesus expects that we are aware of this and that we will do something with what we've been given. In this message, Jamin tries to discern the difference between busyness, rest, gifts, and work.

Jesus and Anxiety

Jesus tells us to not live in anxiety, which isn't always helpful when we're actually dealing with anxiety. But Jesus also shows us how to deal with anxiety with his own life decisions and spiritual practices. What can we learn from that?

The Evil Eye

The evil eye appears in several places throughout the Bible, including in Jesus' teaching. What is it and what was Jesus' point in mentioning it?

The Good Samaritan and Racism

In this message, Jamin takes a look at the history between Jews and Samaritans to help us see further how powerful the parable of the Good Samaritan really is. The Samaritan seemed free of prejudice and racism and saw the stranger in front of him as a human to be loved.

Fall Like Lightning

The disciples were excited to discover that they could cast out demons, causing Jesus to respond that he "saw Satan fall like lightning." What does this curious phrase mean? Jamin traces the theme of Satan throughout the Bible to show how Satan has fallen like lightning, is falling like lightning, and will fall like lightning.

A Range of Judgment

Heaven and Hell is a simple concept, right? Not exactly. While these seem to be the two end results of judgment on the Day of the Lord, Jesus talks about judgment in a wider sense than that. In this message, Jamin focuses on a few passages that don't exactly match the mold.

Faith and Provision for Ministry

There are three stories intertwined in Luke about doing ministry. Twice Jesus sends his disciples out with a lack of provision for the job, yet they are cared for. But in the third story, Jesus calls them to do ministry the wrong way, which Peter readily embraces.

A Few Crazy Days with Jesus

In this message, Jamin reads several stories from Luke back to back so that we can feel the immensity of what it must have been like to do ministry with Jesus. In this brief look, we see that there's nothing he can't do. Nature has no authority over him. Armies of demons are scared of him. Death obeys his words. Do we walk with such faith in our own Christian life and ministry?

The Hundredfold Christian

In the parable of the seeds, Jesus describes the Christian life as he desires it to be: one that produces a hundredfold. This is a convicting passage for many of us as we consider the seeds we relate to most in this parable. Are we being all that we're supposed to be? What's stopping us from going further and reaping the rewards of Heaven and furthering the kingdom?

A Juneteenth Call to the Church

In this timely message, 1208 celebrates Juneteenth by using it as a stepping stone to talk about the church, social justice, diversity, and anti-racism.

"Clamo, Clamo"

We've recently found ourselves at 1208 pressing in for more of the Holy Spirit. In this message we continue to do so, crying out for God to meet us as we worship so that we might know and experience the greater depths of his Spirit and be continually anointed for his ministry.

Empowered Women in the Bible

The New Testament is full of empowered women, starting with Jesus' female disciples. Jamin dives into the Scriptures to show all the ways in which they served the church, be it as missionaries, evangelists, prophets, apostles, and more.

Pentecost Water

In this message, Jamin provides a narrative of 1208's spiritual journey over the last year and invites us to wait expectantly for the Spirit to pour out in a fresh and visible way.

Jesus and Rumors of Scandal

When a known woman broke into a house where Jesus was, she began to wash his feet with her tears and hair, much to the dissatisfaction of the religious leaders among him. Jesus would likely face rumors in this moment, but he instead admired and appreciated the woman and lifted her up. How do we respond in such moments?