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Jamin shares a bit of his testimony and explains how it can be difficult for him to receive God's love while he has no problem dishing it out to others.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are incredibly terrifying both on a visual level and a theological level. But understood correctly, it's not quite as theologically concerning as you might think—you just need to see it in the light John is painting.

We often sing songs about God being a lion and a lamb. This is all well and good as the Bible likens God to a lion throughout, but in John’s Revelation, there is no lion to be found. Yes, a lion is announced, but when John turns to see him, it is, in fact, a lamb—not a lion morphing into a lamb, but a lamb. And this speaks volumes to John’s message.

In a time where the nation is vocally divided on politics, it'd be nice to give the whole thing a rest for Christmas. But the truth is that Christmas is about a baby king being born in our midst—and kings tend to be political.

The gods of the Ancient Near East expected humanity to serve them and in return they would give humanity what they needed. The Hebrews, however, saw their God in a different light—and Christmas amplifies that light to an incredible degree.

Revelation 4 is a powerful scene of God's throne room and it's there that we find all kinds of strange things we don't know what to make of. But once we learn about these strange things we begin to see God glorified even more.

The letters John wrote to the churches of Revelation are not churches in the future. They were real churches that existed at the time he wrote them and they were specifically written to them in their context. Jamin explains how each letter related to their particular environment.

Revelation is a very confusing book, but it's more understandable than you might think if you come at it from the perspective of the scholars and theologians who know it best. In this introduction to our new series, Jamin invites to see this book as letter, prophecy, and apocrypha. He then answers any questions people have on the first chapter of Revelation.

The Bible is framed as a clash between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of this world. What does this mean for us, our expectations of the world, and our interaction with it? Jamin covers these questions in the close of his miniseries on social justice.

Last week Jamin showed his love for social justice and social activism. This week he offers some critique on the subject, for the way the world does social justice and the way that Jesus does social justice are grounded in very different themes.