Absalom stations himself at the gate, tells everyone with a complaint that their claim is valid and nobody is listening, then embraces them. Pastor Adam reads it against his father:…
Joab notices the king misses his son and engineers a reconciliation with a coached performance — pretend, act like, put words in her mouth. Pastor Adam builds on triangulation, and…
Two years pass and Absalom throws a party. Pastor Adam preaches on what anger does when given time and nothing else — that it cannot resolve itself, and that it…
The series works backwards into how the family got there, through the part most sermons skip. Pastor Adam names two failures — minimizing trauma, and the inability to communicate —…
A series on Scripture’s most dysfunctional family opens at its end, with Absalom dead against David’s explicit order. Pastor Adam’s framing is blunt: an amazing son of God and a…
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…