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…
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…
The Commission spends its verbs on what happens after conversion — baptising, teaching, obeying — which is long, repetitive and unreportable. The promise attached is proportionate: a commitment to accompany…
“All authority has been given to me, therefore go.” Pastor Adam puts the weight on the therefore, and on verse seventeen, where worship and doubt are recorded in the same…
Matthew notes that the two men were so violent no one could pass that way. Pastor Adam builds on that: a blockage on a road, deliverance that clears a route…
Jesus says when you fast, not if. The message stays with a practice arranged around being unseen — and the scripture is read audio-only by a worker in the Middle…