The third message takes up friendship, and Proverbs is strikingly unsentimental about it — the friend who sticks closer than a brother, wounds from a friend against the kisses of…
Proverbs does not generally promise or command — it observes, and the observations hold most of the time rather than always. Reading it as guarantee produces disappointment; reading it as…
The Sunday after Christmas opens with Sinatra, and a stated purpose: wisdom to set 2022 on a different trajectory than the two years before it. Proverbs suits that — wisdom…
Pastor Adam opens on sexuality with three readings rather than one, and the selection is the argument: humanity made male and female, everything made for its purpose, and what is…
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” Pastor Adam preaches joy at the point in December when many can least manufacture it, describing hope as the long road joy travels before…
Pastor Adam puts the weight on the first verb: honour the Lord with your wealth. Generosity is an overflow of honour, not a formula, and Isaiah 61 widens what “favour”…