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James 3:13-18 sets two kinds of wisdom side by side: one earthly, unspiritual, and demonic, marked by bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, and one from above that is pure, peaceable, gentle, and full of mercy. Pastor Adam opens season two of Storm Proof with a diagnostic for every decision we face: will this action produce righteousness and peace?

Under the New Covenant nothing compels a gift: Paul writes instruction, not command, and verse 7 hands the decision to one settled heart at a time, chosen deliberately and in advance rather than under pressure. Pastor Adam makes the case that verse 10 joins provision and righteousness with a repeated “and” rather than offering a choice between them, argued carefully against his own instinct and against a colleague who reads it differently.

Deuteronomy 14 hands generosity a rhythm: a tenth set apart year by year, a feast to rejoice in God’s provision, and a third-year tithe laid up so the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow could eat and be filled. Pastor Adam works through the three shapes of giving under the Mosaic law and makes the case that a settled habit of generosity forms the soul in a way guilty, occasional giving never will.

Before the Law, before the tabernacle, before any command to tithe, two brothers brought God an offering. Pastor Adam opens a new series on giving with Cain and Abel in Genesis 4, and makes the case that provisional giving was worship long before anyone was ever told to do it.

Elijah finds his successor plowing a field, not standing on a stage. Pastor Adam traces the long gap between Elisha receiving the cloak and actually picking up the mantle years later, and argues that ordinary obedience, not readiness for the spotlight, is where God’s calling most often begins.

Elijah tells God the truth, almost entirely. Four honest statements and one lie: “I, even I only, am left.” Pastor Adam traces how God calls Elijah out of hiding not through wind, earthquake, or fire, but through a whisper close enough to require actual intimacy, and then corrects the lie with a truth Elijah never saw coming.

Before the wind, the earthquake, and the fire, there was a forty day walk and a cave. Pastor Adam traces exactly how Elijah got to the mountain of God, arguing that the places we dwell shape who we become, and that a specific, personal word from God is available to anyone willing to sit quietly long enough to receive it.

Hours after calling down fire on Mount Carmel, Elijah runs for his life and asks God to let him die under a broom tree. Pastor Adam opens a new series in 1 Kings with the man behind the miracle: before Elijah was a man of fire, he was a man of solitude, and God’s first response to his collapse was an angel bearing food, not a lecture.

An edict from Rome uprooted them, and it placed them directly in Paul’s path. Pastor Adam closes this series through Acts with Priscilla and Aquila, an ordinary couple whose tentmaking trade, open home, and willingness to quietly disciple a gifted teacher named Apollos left a mark on the early church that outlasted them.

His name was Joseph, but the apostles renamed him after the thing he was known for — encouragement. Pastor Adam traces Barnabas through Acts: the man who sold his land for others, vouched for Saul when no one else would, and gave John Mark a second chance that changed church history.

While a city in Samaria is still buzzing from revival, God sends Philip the other direction — to a desert road, to minister to one man. Pastor Harry unpacks what happens when the church trades the crowd for the one, and what it costs, and gains, to carry the gospel that far.

A new series in Acts. A new question for the congregation: if the people around you asked you to be a busboy, would you be honored or offended? The person they asked in Acts 6 was Stephen. He started at the tables. He ended in the streets, speaking with a wisdom and courage no one could withstand. That’s the invitation.

Peter doesn’t just say you’ve been given a gift — he tells you exactly where it belongs: sandwiched between a mature, praying, loving life and the glory of God. Pastor Adam unpacks what it means to be a steward, not an owner, of what you’ve been given.

Every believer has been given a gift by the Holy Spirit — but given for what, and for whom? Pastor Adam opens 1 Corinthians 12 to argue that gifts were never meant to build a platform, then asks the harder question: is yours sitting unused?

What does it take to qualify for bearing spiritual fruit? In this message from John 15, Campus Pastor Joshua Pigg makes the case that the bar is simpler than we think — and harder than we make it. The only qualification is connection to Christ.

Is your church Spirit-filled? Pastor Adam Stadtmiller reframes the question: the primary evidence of the Holy Spirit isn’t what you can do — it’s who you’re becoming. Fruit is grown. Gifts are given. And only one of them requires abiding.

In the series finale of The Church, Pastor Adam Stadtmiller arrives at the fourth and final purpose — Mission — and immediately reframes what that word means. Mission isn’t the program or the outreach event or the sandwich line, though it can include all of those. Mission is something far larger: the Church functioning as God’s masterpiece on display, making His manifold wisdom known to every power and authority — seen and unseen — through the transformed lives of ordinary people.

In the third message of The Church series, Pastor Adam takes up the third of four church purposes — Identity, Unity, Maturity, Mission — and reframes what maturity actually means. The goal of the church, he argues, is not attendance. It is conformity to the person of Jesus Christ, a distinction that sounds subtle but changes everything about how a believer lives.

Division doesn’t just weaken the church — according to Ephesians 2, it contradicts the entire point of the cross. Pastor Adam Stadtmiller walks through what Jesus actually accomplished: not just saving individuals, but tearing down the wall between them and creating one new humanity. The call to unity isn’t a nicety. It’s the evidence the world is waiting for.

Before anything else can matter — mission, unity, maturity — the church has to settle one question: who are we? Pastor Adam Stadtmiller opens The Church series in Ephesians 1, tracing what it means to be chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son, and sealed by the Spirit. Not as doctrine to affirm, but as a foundation to stand on.

Most of us live far below the capacity available to us. On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Adam skips the argument about tongues and goes after dunamis — the explosive power Jesus told the disciples to wait for, and what it looks like on an ordinary Tuesday.

“Bless me, even me also, O my father.” Esau arrived moments too late, and many people live in that same posture. But if the blessing is already secured in Christ, the question is no longer how to get it — it is what activates it.

Satan has many tools, and deception may be the most dangerous, because deceived people rarely know they are drifting. Jacob and Isaac show how blindness and unchecked appetite create the conditions — and why willpower is not the remedy.

Four people in Genesis 27, each operating from a distorted picture of reality, and each with a reason that made sense to them. The warning is sharp: deception does not look wrong. It looks right.

John sees a city with no temple, no sun and no moon — just the Lamb, lighting everything permanently. Pastor Harry reframes heaven as a person rather than a place, and reads the open gates as both total safety and total welcome.

The Transfiguration as the hinge where Old Testament glory hands off to New. Pastor Adam finds three deliberate echoes of Exodus in the scene, and borrows from Lewis to argue that glory is not brightness or achievement — it is acceptance.

Moses asks to see God’s glory and is put in the cleft of a rock. Pastor Adam traces glory from something rare, restricted and risky, through the incarnation, to something a believer is now invited to host rather than merely behold.

Palm Sunday in John 12 — the king the crowd… read more

Genesis 27 and a father’s blessing there was only one… read more

Genesis 26:26-33 and the treaty at Beersheba. The whole chapter… read more

Isaac digs one well after another as each is taken… read more

Genesis 26:12-16 and Isaac sowing in a year of famine… read more

Genesis 26 opens a new run through Isaac’s story: a… read more

Matthew 8:14-17. Peter’s mother-in-law healed with a touch, and she… read more

Matthew 8:28-34 and the two demon-possessed men at Gennesaret. The… read more

Matthew 8 and the cleansing of a leper — an… read more

Proverbs 31 and the woman who fears the Lord, opened… read more

Ecclesiastes 1:8 and the eye never satisfied with seeing. The… read more

Proverbs 13:25 opens the January wisdom series, on appetite and… read more

The last Sunday of the year goes to the youth pastor, and Vinny Iudici proves James’s point about the tongue at his own expense — with something he said to an eleven-year-old that he clearly still carries. Small things said do not stay small.

Christmas Eve turns on a small word used twice in verse 5: Joseph registers with Mary, who is with child. Pastor Adam makes “with” the whole message — and is honest that he is currently surrounded by prayers that are not being answered.

Gabriel appears to exactly three people in scripture, and the first was Daniel — mid-prayer, pleading for his people. Pastor Harry reads the annunciation as the answer to a prayer already prayed, and lands on Mary’s reply: favoured one, and servant.

One point this week: when do you stay, when do you fight, and when do you run? An angel gives Joseph two verbs and no explanation. Pastor Adam notes what gets missed — the escape was funded before it was ordered.

No angels this week — just a poor young couple doing what the law required. Pastor Adam makes the ordinariness the subject, and points out that the King of Glory arrived at his own temple and nobody noticed except two people who had been waiting.

The Magi came from the class Daniel was put in charge of six hundred years earlier — which makes the exile the hinge of the Christmas story. Pastor Adam opens a new series on the childhood of Jesus, and takes “they went home another way” literally.

The annual Thanksgiving message takes a Hebrew word as its key — todah — and spends its first stretch on what the research actually says about gratitude. Then three things it does: brings peace, opens the door, and wins battles.

James asks whether a faith that produces nothing can save anybody. Pastor Harry takes it without flinching — and lands somewhere unexpected: if nothing is being produced, the problem is not a works problem, and a list of nice things will not fix it.

Two men walk into the same room — one in a gold ring, one in rags — and James watches which seat each is offered. Pastor Joshua Pigg takes partiality as seriously as the letter does: faith that favours is faith that falters.

Eight weeks of build-up and the fire falls. Pastor Adam asks what being on fire actually means, rules out feeling — and points at a detail he says he only saw this week: the fire took the stones, the dust and the water too.

Elijah has the altar soaked until the trench overflows — deliberately removing every explanation that is not God. Pastor Adam separates that from wisdom, tells the story of a job he turned down with two thousand dollars to his name, and lands on preparation.

Before any fire falls, Elijah does two ordinary things: he tells the people to come near, and he rebuilds what was torn down. Pastor Adam turns twelve stones into twelve areas to inspect, and names the four quiet things that pull an altar apart.

Four hundred and fifty on one side, and Elijah says out loud that he is the only one left on the other. Pastor Adam builds on the arithmetic — conviction against consensus — and asks whether you have handed God a sacrifice and then kept interfering with it.

Where you sit matters. Back from sabbatical, Pastor Harry reads Ephesians 2 on being seated with Christ, answers why that was necessary at all, and passes on the question he was asked twice while away: what would you do if you knew it would not fail?

A father takes out a newspaper advertisement for his estranged son — all is forgiven — and eight hundred young men named Paco come to the meeting place. Elliott Stearns takes Hemingway’s story, and the life behind it, into what a father actually supplies.

Ahab’s first words are an accusation: you troubler of Israel. Pastor Adam draws out what that reveals, then asks how long anyone can go limping between two opinions — and finds his illustration in a baseball cap worn by someone who didn’t support the team.

Elijah is the headline, but this week belongs to the civil servant. Obadiah ran Ahab’s household and hid a hundred prophets fifty at a time — and then argued with Elijah about getting killed. Pastor Adam treats that doubt as permission rather than failure.

The brook dries up and God’s next instruction is worse: go to Jezebel’s home territory, where a starving widow will feed you. Pastor Adam sits with what Elijah asks of her, and with the shape of the provision — the flour never ran out and never overflowed.

Having just confronted a king, Elijah is told to hide. Pastor Adam refuses to smooth that over — separation, solitude, sustenance — and asks the question underneath it: what is actually sustaining your decisions right now?

Elijah arrives in scripture with no genealogy, no calling narrative — he simply walks into the worst king’s court and announces a drought. Pastor Adam opens the series on what a change maker is, and why every person listening has a place that needs one.

Pastor Jim Smith brings a seed packet to the pulpit and turns the parable of the sower from a diagnosis into a question he has asked students for seventeen years: what quality and depth of soil do you want to offer?

John has just been arrested, and that is when Jesus starts. Pastor Adam works through what makes a kairos moment, why they are easy to miss — and ends somewhere else entirely: the work does not need you, but he wants your company while he does it.

Everyone wants the breakthrough moment; almost nobody wants the ordinary weeks that prepare for it. Pastor Adam opens a series on chronos and kairos with fruit picked early and gassed into ripeness — it looks the part and has nothing in it.

James 1:26-27. Pure religion is looking after widows and orphans… read more

James 1:22-25 and the man who looks in the mirror… read more

James 1:19-21: quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to… read more

James 1:12-15 and the blessed life, beginning with the question… read more

James 1:5-8 — if any of you lacks wisdom, ask…. read more

James 1:1-4 opens a study of the letter on Father’s… read more

Pentecost in Acts 2 — tongues of fire, and the… read more

Acts 1:6-11 on day forty, the ascension, and the two… read more

Luke 24:28-35 and the moment of recognition at the breaking… read more

The road to Emmaus: two people walking away from Jerusalem… read more

John 21:20-25. Forty days with Jesus, then ten more waiting… read more

John 21:15 and the question put three times. Peter had… read more

John 21 opens 50 Days: Road to Pentecost — breakfast… read more

Easter in the Upper Room series: Thomas, the wounds offered… read more

John 13:36-38. Unchecked zeal burns hot but often burns out… read more

John 13:31-35. Judas has gone out, and Jesus calls this… read more

John 13 and Jesus washing feet on the last night… read more

Esau sells his birthright for a bowl of stew, closing… read more

The same passage a week on — the struggle in… read more

Genesis 25 and the birth of Jacob and Esau, on… read more

Rebekah at the well, watering ten camels — 200 to… read more

Plenty of people have saving faith and are not faithful people. Pastor Adam separates the two in Genesis 24, follows a servant who lost everything and kept steadfast love anyway, and draws a boundary line between the land behind you and the one ahead.

God had spoken to Abraham at least nine times and never used his name. The first time he says “Abraham!” is the moment of the test. Pastor Adam reads that as a graduation, and asks whether anyone actually wants God to speak the way they say they do.

Sarah is ninety and holding a newborn. Pastor Joshua Pigg gives one sentence to carry out of the room — God keeps his word — and traces the pattern of a God who announces before he acts, with five things to do about it.

Genesis 17 picks up the story of Isaac after Abraham,… read more

Proverbs 10:19 and the question of whether there is a… read more

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. Two are better than one, stated flatly with… read more

Proverbs 1:20-23 and wisdom crying out in the street —… read more

Luke 1:26-38 and Mary’s answer: let it be to me… read more

Mary’s Magnificat in Luke 1, from a preacher who opens… read more

Luke 1:5-17 again, the day after Pearl Harbor Day, with… read more

Zechariah in Luke 1, struck silent at the altar of… read more

Job 42 and Job’s reply — a hand over the… read more

God answers Job out of the whirlwind with questions rather… read more

Job 13 and ‘though he slay me, yet will I… read more

Job 2 and ‘skin for skin’ — the structural theology… read more

Job 1:13-22. Four messengers in a row, each arriving before… read more

Job 1 opens a six-week series, with the wager in… read more

Ephesians 6 and the armour of God, closing the series… read more

Ephesians 4:1-7 and the call to walk worthy. One body,… read more

Ephesians 2:8-10 on grace as gift, and a culture of… read more

Ephesians 1 and Paul’s prayer for spiritual wisdom. A praying… read more

Ephesians 4:11-16 opens a series on the church’s purpose, and… read more

1 Samuel 3, when the word of the Lord was… read more

Josiah keeps the Passover as it had not been kept… read more

2 Kings 23:15-20. Josiah breaks the altar at Bethel but… read more

Josiah tears down the high places. Week four on a… read more

2 Kings 23 and Josiah using his influence to call… read more

Hilkiah finds the book of the law in the house… read more

2 Kings 22 opens a series on Josiah — of… read more

Acts 4:32-37 and the Barnabas heart — a church holding… read more

Acts 4:23-31. Either God is in charge or he is… read more

Acts 4:13-22 and verse 20 — we are not able… read more

Acts 4:1-12 on Father’s Day. Peter and John before the… read more

Acts 3:11-21 with one word at the top of the… read more

Acts 3 and the healed man at the temple gate,… read more

John 4:27-30 and the power of a testimony: what happens… read more

John 4:13-26 on Mother’s Day, by way of the Stanley… read more

John 4 and the bend in the road: after three… read more

John 3:27-36 out in the Judean wilderness, in a book… read more

John 3:22-30. John the Baptist’s disciples are unsettled that the… read more

The same passage a second week running, deliberately — the… read more

John 3:16-21 opening a new run through the gospel: love,… read more

Easter in John 20, the grave clothes still lying there,… read more

Genesis 25 and the death of Abraham, on God’s plan… read more

Genesis 24 and Abraham’s servant at the well. Servanthood is… read more

Abraham arranges a wife for Isaac and refuses to compromise on where she comes from. A study in what wholehearted obedience looks like when the promise is still unfinished, and what it costs to keep faith attached to the practical decisions.

The camera shifts to Isaac, carrying the wood for his own sacrifice up the mountain without knowing it. What is credited to Abraham is not the completion but the willingness to release — and the text keeps insisting the two of them went on together.

God says Abraham, and Abraham says here I am — a person already oriented toward the voice before knowing what it will ask. Pastor Adam traces that faith back through every earlier hinge, arguing it was built in instalments rather than summoned on the mountain.

A weaning feast turns into an expulsion, and the conflict is the direct residue of an arrangement made years earlier. Pastor Adam holds both threads: consequences that are real and not cancelled, and a God who meets Hagar in the desert anyway.

Genesis makes the point twice in one sentence: the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and did what he had promised. The name carries the warmth — Isaac means laughter, and Sarah had laughed in disbelief at the announcement.

Proverbs 17:1 — better a dry crust with peace than… read more

Proverbs 3:1-4 on binding love and faithfulness around your neck,… read more

Proverbs 1 opening the new year, on Scripture as God’s… read more

Isaiah 11 and a shoot coming up from the stump… read more

Jesus leaves after John is imprisoned, and Pastor Adam refuses the obvious reading: this is strategic withdrawal, into border country Isaiah called deep darkness. God does some of his best work in obscurity — and the confession that follows is unflattering.

Joseph was faithful to the law, and yet would not expose Mary to disgrace. Pastor Adam makes those three words the hinge — faithfulness to the law required her death — and builds Advent on consideration, obedience, and four words to carry into the week.

Psalm 100 for Thanksgiving, on how easily thankfulness is misplaced… read more

The seventh trumpet sounds and the announcement is already past tense: the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord. Pastor Adam admits it is the first time he has ever preached Revelation, and lands on two things for Wednesday.

John is handed a measuring rod and told to leave the outer court out of it. Pastor Adam does the hard background honestly, then brings it home: you are the temple now, and some courtyards in a life need excluding.

Pastor Adam changes his mind in front of everyone — he had always read the mighty angel as Jesus until seventy-two hours before preaching. The chapter is a pause, the scroll is eaten rather than read, and the message it produces has two flavours.

The order to release the sixth trumpet comes from the horns of the altar — the place people ran to for mercy. Pastor Adam traces the Euphrates as a boundary line, and corrects the record on his own addiction: God did not take it away.

A star falls and is handed the key to the abyss. Pastor Adam finds the life-changing detail in what is easy to miss — every angel here has an assignment it knows and obeys, and the things released have power only because it was given to them.

The third season in Revelation drops you into the middle of a firefight. Pastor Adam sets two rules — no speculation, and it has to change your Tuesday — then reads the repeated fraction as mercy: a third, not all.

Devoted, together, daily. Pastor Adam closes the series on regularity, makes an unfashionable defence of religion, and ends with Nicholas Winton — who told nobody for fifty years, until the audience seated around him stood up.

The Greek for “together” carries proximity, not just agreement — they lived near each other. Pastor Adam handles the verse everyone flinches at carefully, then refuses to let the caveat do all the work: do you actually want to be part of a church like that?

Four things the first church devoted itself to, treated as a blueprint rather than a historical note. Back from Israel, Pastor Adam puts the uncomfortable question to his own congregation: ten years in, we have gotten wider — have we gotten deeper?

Selling animals to pilgrims was a service, not a scam — the corruption was the markup and who it pushed out. Pastor Joe Brandi works the temple cleansing through to the claim underneath it: the building is replaced by a person, and then by everyone in him.

John 2 and the cleansing of the temple. A whip… read more

Jesus goes looking for one man by name. Pastor Adam builds on that, borrows a line from his daughter about churches that treat people like Instagram followers, and admits he has no idea what happened under the fig tree.

Jesus starts his public ministry at a wedding that has run out of wine — no speech, no marketing, no investors. Pastor Adam works through the symbolism, the six jars filled to the brim, and the detail that the servants knew before anyone important did.

John says four words — look, the Lamb of God — and two of his own disciples walk away after Jesus. He does nothing to stop it. Pastor Adam builds the message on the freeing part of that: you are not responsible for the encounter.

Paul goes to Jerusalem not knowing what waits, warned in every city. Nic Gilmore preaches it with the question turned on himself, names the problem of suffering rather than stepping around it, and asks whether any of us are on track to finish well.

Peyton Jones preaches Paul’s farewell to the Ephesian elders from inside the crowd — you are an elder now, and you still cannot believe you are a Christian. The hinge is humility, and the difference between being an evangelist and being a witness.

Agabus binds his own hands with Paul’s belt, and everyone present — Luke included — begs him not to go. Pastor Adam sits with how hard that is: community is where you hear, and then you still decide.

Paul preaches a man out of a third-storey window and then raises him. Pastor Adam uses it to ask whether that power is still on offer, and hands over the line the message turns on: if you don’t believe in miracles, you will be proven right.

Three words in Acts 20 carry the message: he was accompanied by. Pastor Adam argues that who travels with you sets where you end up, shows how the Greek makes encouragement a shovel rather than a compliment, and names what changed between nineteen and twenty-five.

Paul never preached against Artemis and never called a boycott. He said gods made by human hands are not gods, people believed it, and the trade collapsed on its own. Pastor Adam takes that into a city that is post-Christian rather than pre-Christian.

Fifty thousand drachmas of scrolls burned in public — well over a century of wages — and the next sentence says the word of the Lord grew in power. Pastor Adam argues the growth was downstream of the bonfire, and asks what still needs to go in.

The evil spirit answers the sons of Sceva with the line the message hangs on: Jesus I know, Paul I know about, but who are you? Pastor Adam separates dunamis from kratos and argues that on this ground, neutrality is not one of the options.

Write three names. Pastor Joe Brandi separates boldness from persuasion in Acts 19, tells how a street preacher who never listened still got his attention — and then reads out the text he sent his own sister between services.

Paul finds twelve disciples in Ephesus who have not heard there is a Holy Spirit. Pastor Adam opens the third missionary journey on being stuck, dismantles the idea that tongues prove salvation, and lands in Ezekiel’s rising river.

John sees Jesus coming and says look — the Lamb of God. That gesture is his whole ministry. On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Adam argues baptism is a launch pad rather than a finish line, and then fills the tub at the last minute to prove he means it.

Asked who he is, John answers three times with who he is not — and only then says what he is: a voice. Pastor Adam builds confessing and waymaking out of that, and tests it on his own church rather than the congregation.

Jeremiah 29 and living faithfully in exile: seek the welfare… read more

The world was made through him and did not recognize him. Pastor Adam spends the message on recognition — a jacket given away outside a movie theatre, a conversation that refused to follow the script — and lets everyone off the hook for closing the deal.

“Monday was a testimony. The rest of the week was blessed.” Pastor Adam takes a line from a Brooklyn Bible study into John 1:14, where the Word pitches a tent among us — and asks where you are pitching yours.

John was not the light. He reflected it — and Pastor Adam builds three things about living sent on that distinction, including an honest account of a recent encounter where he knew he should speak, couldn’t, and has no impressive story to show for it.

John opens where Genesis opens, and creation happens by speech. Pastor Adam takes that to its practical end — what you say comes out of what you are — and hands out a prescription: a seven-day criticism fast, then spend the words you saved on blessing.

John 20 and the empty tomb. The Bible is about… read more

Palm Sunday in Mark 11 — the donkey, the withered… read more

John 8 and the woman caught in adultery. Jesus as… read more

Lot has conviction in abundance — Second Peter says he was tormented daily by what he lived among. What he never develops is resolution. Pastor Adam traces the hesitation from the angels grabbing his hand to a cave, and closes with Lincoln setting down the pen.

Second Peter calls Lot righteous. His story still ends in a cave. Pastor Adam opens two weeks on Lot with the uncomfortable question underneath that — whether a person can be counted righteous and still end up away from the blessing.

Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Pastor Adam reads the bargaining over Sodom as God disclosing his plan to someone he knows will argue — and closes with the eighteen-year-old who left his foxhole in 1968 to carry Adam’s brother out.

By the time the visitors promise a son within the year, this is the sixth time Abraham and Sarah have heard it. Rondi Pogue preaches the laugh behind the tent flap, the question God asks instead of a rebuke, and draws a careful line around what faith does and does not guarantee.

Abraham has a plan B and its name is Ishmael. Pastor Adam works through what it costs to settle, counts 2,774 failed light bulbs, and then undoes his own framework: asked what plan A actually is, the answer turns out to be your heart.

Every agreement God made with humanity was broken from the human side, and a broken agreement normally ends the relationship. Pastor Adam walks the four Old Testament covenants, tells a genuinely bad story from 1979, and arrives at why there had to be a new one.

Abraham is ninety-nine and the dream has been dead long enough to stop being mentioned. Pastor Adam preaches against the discount — the not-talented-enough, not-young-enough markdown we apply to our own dreams — and insists that fulfillment is usually work, not miracle.

Genesis 16 is a family in ruins: Sarai desperate, Abram weak and then disengaged, Hagar running into the desert. And the one who gives God a name is the mistreated servant girl — El Roi, the God who sees me.

The path of the righteous brightens toward full day, and Pastor Adam turns that into a dimmer switch: every right decision raises the light, every dimmed one hides what is coming. Then he closes by undercutting his own series — Christ is our wisdom.

Two statements that will not resolve: failure to plan is planning to fail, and faith does not always pencil out. Pastor Harry works Proverbs 16 through both, tests his own motives out loud on a Ferrari, and lands on a quiet life.

Proverbs 3 is if-then wisdom, and Pastor Adam names the trouble with that before preaching it. Acknowledgment brings direction, fear brings health, honor brings provision — and on tithing, the cross removed the obligation without removing the blessing.

Proverbs 1 opens the year, and Pastor Adam starts with a premise instead of a point: God is always speaking, so the difficulty is discernment, not hiddenness. Three assignments follow — cancel the noise, live in the questions, and name an actual council.

Isaiah’s servant has no beauty or majesty to attract us. Pastor Adam closes the series on Christmas with three things about that Jesus — despised, broken, and salvific — and a boy in a riptide who pushed his own board away insisting he did not need help.

Isaiah 53:9-10, preached on returning from two weeks with the… read more

Isaiah 53:6-7. We all like sheep have gone astray, and… read more

Isaiah 53:4-5 on the pain that brings peace, set against… read more

Isaiah 53:3 and a Messiah described as despised and rejected… read more

Isaiah 53 opens the Christmas series: a prophecy written some… read more

The final week in Nehemiah, the wall finished and the… read more

Nehemiah 6 and four invitations to come down to the… read more

Nehemiah refuses the governor’s food allowance out of reverence for… read more

Half the workers held spears while the other half built…. read more

Sanballat, Tobiah and Geshem mock the work as soon as… read more

Nehemiah surveys the ruins by night before telling anyone what… read more

Nehemiah 2 and the king’s question. Fifty-two days to rebuild… read more

Nehemiah 1 opens an eight-week series, prompted in part by… read more

Paul in Athens among the altars, at the last stop… read more

Acts 17 in Thessalonica, on the final stretch of the… read more

The slave girl freed in Acts 16, preached with a… read more

Acts 16:6-10, where Luke quietly joins the story as ‘we’…. read more

The Council at Jerusalem in Acts 15, opening the second… read more

John 21 and the conversation between Jesus and Peter, overheard… read more

The seventh seal, and the silence in heaven — then… read more

The great multitude in white robes who came out of… read more

The 144,000 sealed from the tribes of Israel. Closer to… read more

The sixth seal in Revelation 6, and the great and… read more

Revelation 6:9-11 and the martyrs under the altar asking how… read more

The four horsemen of Revelation 6, and a passage the… read more

Opening a study of Revelation’s second set of sevens, complete… read more

The last week of the Believe series: breakfast on the… read more

Lydia in Acts 16, a dealer in purple cloth whose… read more

John 3:16 — arguably the best-known verse there is —… read more