1208-Bit *Nerd Church

As Dom always says: "Family." And here's a look at what God's family looks like.

Join the Nerd Church Discord:https://discord.com/invite/DX7jc35sPrLearn more in Tolkien Dogmatics:https://www.amazon.com/Tolkien-Dogmatics-Theology-Mythology-Middle-earth/dp/1683596676/Jamin's Blog Post on Lewis:https://jaminbradley.com/2018/04/04/visions-c-s-lewis-narnia/

Isaiah gives us a strange prophecy about a coming messiah who is also God. How does that work? Jamin takes a look into some of the wording to show us how the Christmas story fits Old Testament themes, bridged by Isaiah's prophecy.

In our final episode on chaos creatures, we chat about Behemoth in the Bible, ancient culture, and his Scriptural application for today.

Leviathan and Rahab kind of seem like the same creature in the Bible, but there are some themes in Rahab that we don't see show up in Leviathan. Jamin chats with others about the differences and similarities in this Nerd Church session.

Jamin and the Nerd Church crew jump into discussion about Job's mythical/spiritual Leviathan character and trace its references throughout the Bible.

Join the discussion on our Discord channel here:https://discord.com/invite/qSUgt2pWatch Jamin's musical journey through Narnia here:https://youtu.be/EOGAy4p6psYListen to Jamin's musical journey through Narnia on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/album/5CcoBij6cRVPjtnKveZ81i?si=cF4ZNJ81QFSg-IJXbaQlgg

This episode was made for visual. Watch it here! https://youtu.be/8C6X790Xb5UChat about this episode on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/qSUgt2p

In this Halloween episode we reflect upon the horror of horrors: the cross of Jesus. Using Fleming Rutledge's book, "The Crucifixion," we remind ourselves of the gruesome historical details of the crucifixion Jesus endured in order to dethrone Satan, take kingship over the world, and bring about the forgiveness of sins and the resurrected life. While horror is often treated as a theme that has nothing to do with Christianity, it is actually central to our own story—not just back then, but still today as people all around the world are martyred for Jesus. That being said, horror does have a discerning place in the Christian narrative as Jesus proves that even disasters can bring about powerful redemptive moments. Join us as we discuss today's theme and then chat with us about it on our Discord! https://discord.com/invite/qSUgt2p

Season two of Locke and Key is here and it's just as intense as the first season! Throughout this season we see a lot of themes of demonic possession where humans seem to be completely taken over by demons and have no control at all anymore. Is that what demonic activity is like Biblically? Nerd Church Pastor Jamin Bradley weighs in. Join the conversation on our Discord! https://discord.com/invite/qSUgt2p

In today's episode we take a look at the themes in the movie 1408. Are there really haunted spaces throughout the world? A pastor weighs in on the idea of physical locations as demonic dwelling places.

Tales of Arise is one of the best RPGs to come out in a long time and it's jam-packed with a lot of great spiritual themes for a pastor to riff on. Join Pastor Jamin of 1208-Bit *Nerd Church as he takes a look at some of the themes the game addresses!

After finishing all the comics in The Walking Dead series, Jamin started working on a book about "Scavenging for the Gospel in the Walking Dead." While he wrote no more than a preface to the book and he's unsure if he'll get back to the project, in this short episode he reads what he wrote so far. In it, he discusses finding light in dark places and practicing discernment with the kinds of media we watch. You can join the conversation about this episode on 1208-Bit's Discord channel: https://discord.com/invite/qSUgt2p

In today's short episode, we talk about the hilarious new movie, Free Guy! This leads us into conversations of “the soul,” discussed via topics like AI, robots, clones, and even the Nephilim. This question has been asked a hundred different ways by fiction throughout the years. How do you think the soul works with such things? Join us on our Discord channel to discuss your thoughts! https://discord.com/invite/qSUgt2p

In Marvel's first "What If" episode, Peggy Carter takes on the role of Steve Rogers. And so we dive into the spiritual themes of this tale which leads us into talks on the watcher-angels of the Bible, as well as the egalitarian view of the Eden.

In this episode of the 1208-Bit *Nerd Church Podcast we talk about the first season of Disney+'s, "Loki." This leads us into all kinds of conversations like free will, predestination, open theism, and even resurrection.

We saw Black Widow opening night and we're ready to talk about it on the 1208-Bit *Nerd Church Podcast! This takes us into some pretty weighty themes of human trafficking, abuse, dissociation, mind control, and even—wait for it—witchcraft. Because of some of these themes, viewer discretion is advised as some may find some of these themes triggering.

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We saw A Quiet Place 2 opening night! In this episode we chat about how much we enjoyed it and then talk a bit about themes like hope, aliens, and the apocalyptic.

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In today's episode we talk about two recent sci-fi movies and the important spiritual themes that come up in them. There are spoilers ahead! We talk about Chaos Walking in the first half and Voyagers in the second half.

Tylar and Jamin talk about the latest movie in the monsterverse, "Godzilla VS Kong," which, believe it or not, leads them into some actual conversations about the Bible. Jamin dives into his book "Kaiju of Biblical Proportions" and talks about some of the giant monsters found in the Scriptures, who they are, and what they mean.

In today's episode we talk about the Snyder cut of Justice League and find ourselves talking about how superhero movies (especially in the DC world) seem to be retelling some of the mythologies of old.

In this episode, Pastors Tylar and Jamin talk about the ways in which they use Dungeons & Dragons in unique ways to help people not only learn theology, but experience it.

Pastors Tylar and Jamin talk about their favorite aliens in entertainment, the possibility of God creating aliens, and a whole lot of other topics in this episode of the 1208-Bit Podcast. Learn more on this week episode of The Erinvironment Podcast and next week's episodes of JXN Cloud. You can also join our Discord channel and request a free audiobook code or PDF of Jamin's book "Alien Theology,"

The final episode of Wandavision has premiered, giving Tylar, Jamin and Chris space to talk about it with ALL THE SPOILERS! (In other words, don't listen if you don't want spoilers.) In this episode we get into Wanda's grief, our grief, hope vs false hope, and speculate as to if the show is setting Wanda up to be a villain or hero.

In today's episode we talk about X-Men, which naturally leads us into many conversations of racial and social justice.

You can watch the Tolkien Society meeting and check out the calendar of sessions here: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-seminar-2021-no-1/

The theme today is "Blessed Are Those Who Mourn," and so Tylar and Jamin cry their way through their saddest podcast episode ever as they discuss the bitterly amazing game, "That Dragon, Cancer." This is an autobiographical video game about a family that lost a 5-year-old son to cancer and then shared their journey of grief and faith with the world in an important, painful and outstanding way in this game. *Sorry for the audio quality and pops here and there. We've noticed our Facebook audio has been lessening over time and we will try out some other options for higher quality in future weeks!

Tylar recently beat God of War on the PS4 and so we thought we'd chat about our experience with it. We get into some unexpected spiritual takeaways on topics like the false gods, power, sacrifice, and more.

In the first half of this episode we talk about the first Wonder Woman movie and some of the spiritual applications we found with it. In the second half we get into spoilers on Wonder Woman 1984 and mostly just critique it. So if you haven't seen it, stop listening when we say spoilers are coming. And if you have seen it and liked it, probably don't listen to us. *Sorry about Jamin's mic audio sounding muffled. He tried something new and won't do it again. As for the occasional short weird breaks in the audio, we blame Facebook for that we think.

What is Santa Claus doing in Narnia? Does he fit there? That's what we try to figure out in this episode.

In this episode we talk about what counts as a Christmas movie and what Christmas movies are our favorites. And towards the end we also talk about the good and bad of American Christmas.

In today's episode we look for overlapping themes between Jesus and Marvel's "Vision" character in the MCU.

In today's episode we talk about the new Miles Morales video game (spoiler-free) and all things Spider-Man as our fellow nerds join us in conversation via comments and audio. And as usual, we also pull out a number of spiritual applications before the episode ends.

In this episode we talk about our favorite and least favorite moments in Star Wars, and then chat about the Jedi, politics, and power and how it overlaps with current Christianity.

There's a whole bunch of new consoles coming out right now so we thought we'd take a trip through memory lane and chat about our favorites and what we're looking forward to in the new ones. Will we be able to bring spiritual application out of this moment? Well, 38 minutes thing, things get real, so if you just want application, fast forward to that. Check it out as Tylar, Jamin and Matt (Shott) dive into the conversation!

Resources to read on this topic:The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment, Third Edition by Edward William Fudge.Rethinking Hell: Readings in Evangelical Conditionalism edited by Christopher M. Date“Theology in the Raw Podcast” by Preston Sprinkle. Episodes 772, 773, 778.The Geography of Hell in the Teaching of Jesus by Kim Papaioannou

In this episode, Tylar and Jamin talk about some of their favorite scary movies including Cloverfield and a Quiet Place.

In the second episode of our spooky October series, we talk about all things Stranger Things! We find a little bit of spiritual application, but mostly we just talk about nothing for an hour straight. Enjoy!

Learn more about the history of zombies from peer-reviewed articles in Michael Heiser’s podcast, Peeranormal.

Today we talk about Futurama, which somehow leads us into the topics of the Simpsons, Disenchanted, satire, the power of science fiction, religion, prophecy, comedy, and more.

Come on, grab your fiends as we talk about all things Adventure Time on the 1208-Bit *Nerd Church Podcast!

For more research, see The Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser. You can also visit the referenced Heiser article about Bigfoot here. And you can listen to Jamin’s interview with Heiser here.

Tylar and Jamin talk all things Batman just a couple weeks before Batman day.

Pastor Dallas Flippin of First Baptist Church joins Pastor Tylar and Pastor Jamin in the studio to talk about some intriguing connections between Bong Joon-ho's movie, Snowpiercer, and the Book of Revelation—which gives way to some very interesting and illuminating conversation.

After 6 months of coronavirus, Tylar and Jamin finally got to a movie theater! In this episode on the "New Mutants" movie, the two cover different elements of the movie including horror, storytelling, faith, and much more. The first 20 minutes or so of this episode is generally spoiler-free. We announce when we're moving into full spoilers should you want to see the movie first before finishing the episode.

In today's episode Jamin starts talking about C.S. Lewis and then never stops talking about him.

Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons by Michael Witwer.The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Carol Zaleski and Philip Zaleski.