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S30E15 Pray Like You’re Expecting a Reply

We all know the verse—ask and you’ll receive, seek and you’ll find—but what if we’ve been asking the same things over and over? In this message, we talk about what it really means to trust that God…

S30E14 Judge Not

S30E13 Anxious Like Jesus

S30E12 Divine Romance: Understanding God’s Faithful Love

In this message, Jamin explores the deep intimacy God desires to have with us — an intimacy so profound that the Bible often reaches for the language of romance and marriage to describe it. Drawing…

S30E11 The Body Between Worlds

This Easter, we marvel at the mystery of the Incarnation and Resurrection—the moment when heaven and earth kissed in the person of Jesus Christ. From eternity past, the Angel of the Lord—God’s very…

S30E10 Donkeys, Palms, and a Reckoning with Religion

S30E9 Jesus Brought Heaven—So Do We

In Jackson as it is in Heaven is a vision and a declaration—that the kingdom of God isn’t just something we wait for, it’s something we carry. Just as Heaven broke out of Jesus, the heavenly man, and…

S30E8 Faking It

In Matthew 6, Jesus warns against being a hypocrite—a word that originally meant a "play-actor." Too often, our spiritual lives can become performances, shaped by the approval of others rather than a…

S30E7 Breaking the Loophole Mentality: Jesus on Keeping Your Word

In Jesus’ time, people made promises in ways that gave them loopholes to break their word. But Jesus spoke strongly against this, calling for honesty and integrity. In this message, Jamin unpacks…

S30E6 Abuse, Divorce, and Jesus

Jesus spoke strongly and briefly about divorce. In this message, Jamin contextualizes Jesus' words and deals with some other difficult issues that leads to divorce, like abuse.

S30E5 The Seeds of Lust

In this message, Jamin preaches on Jesus’ teachings on lust. What do we do with his intense instructions? How do we overcome lust? What lies have we been told about sex? What have our experiences…

S30E4 The Fruit of Hate

In today's Bible passage, Jesus reminds us that hatred is something we must take care of immediately, lest we grow its fruit and fall prey to its consequences. Jamin also addresses anger in this…

S30E3 The Law is Jesus

Right before Jesus starts to reframe the laws of the Old Testament, he calls himself "the fulfillment of the law." What does this mean, and how is it applicable to our lives today? What impact does…

S30E2 You Were Made to Be Experienced

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus refers to his followers as salt and light. We have been designed to be experienced by others in a way that allows others to see what God is like. Jamin takes us…

S30E1 Blessed Are the People You Didn’t Expect

We all have a certain kind of person in mind when we hear the word "blessed." So did Jesus. However, the kind of people Jesus considered blessed were nothing like the kinds of people we have in mind.…

S29E8 Straining

In today's passage out of Philippians, Paul invites us to imitate him as he lives his life like a runner straining for the finish line, putting all he has into his pursuit of God. Jamin invites us…

S29E7 Consider It All Crap

Paul gets suddenly intense in his letter to the Philippians as he recognizes that Gentiles are being subjected to intense traditional rituals in order to be accepted as Christians. Jamin engages this…

S29E6 Living in Spiritual Warfare

In Philippians, Paul refers to his friend as a fellow worker and fellow soldier. Jamin stops to expand on Paul's use of the word "soldier," giving us a glimpse into the Bible's larger picture of the…

S29E5 Jesus and the Holy Spirit

Paul tells us that Jesus emptied himself. What does this mean? In a previous message, Jamin analyzed this theme from a poetic angle about love. In this message, Jamin gives it another meaning by…

How the Bible Empowers Women

The Bible has often been used to oppress and demean women, but the wider story of Scripture offers us a very different narrative. In this message, Jamin explains how sin threw off God's plan for men…