1208PODCAST

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?