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This Mother's Day, Jamin gives various glimpses into the Bible, illustrating its egalitarian view of women and men in ministry, ruling the world together with the same call and image.

Mark Edwards, history professor at Spring Arbor University brings a powerful message to 1208 as he preaches on the historical misuse of the Bible to endorse things like slavery and racism. Check it out in this special message.

And yes—those were gunshots close by our outdoor service. Everyone is okay. We reported everything that we saw to the local police and they have been investigating for the last few hours. Sometimes when this kind of stuff happens churches and congregants leave their communities, but this is exactly why we live and preach here. The gospel is much needed in our community and we will continue to share it with them.

Sometimes the disciples just don't get it. In this case, they are still fighting about which one of them is the greatest when Jesus' whole point is to be humble. Jamin talks about pride and humility in today's message.

According to Luke's gospel, If it wasn't for Jesus praying for Peter, we might have had a very different ending to Peter's denial of Christ.

We're all aware that Jesus ate with sinners, but sometimes we don't realize the kinds of things those sinners have done or why it would have stood out that he ate with them. Tax collectors, for example, we're quite oppressive. Let's take a look at the story of Zacchaeus and see how it might relate to today.

He is risen indeed! Jamin jumps into all things resurrection this Easter and then we baptize two 1208ers and watch the seeds of resurrection begin right in front of us!

Throughout the Old Testament, there was a cloudy manifest presence of God that led God's people and entered sacred places. In this message, Jamin looks at this theme through the eyes of Palm Sunday.

Ask any scholar what they think of Luke 16:1-13 and you'll get an entirely different nuanced answer. What is going on here? We ask 1208 what they think.

As we move out of our series in Isaiah, we move into select passages from Luke and highlight a few stories that we haven't hit on in the other gospels we've preached through over the years. In this case, we stop on a passage where Jesus teaches us to pray impudently.

Starting this week, Jamin moves his series on Isaiah to his blog and then hops into a one-off message on his cats—which yes, may sound weird—but has spiritual applications.