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…
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…
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 —…
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…
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…
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 —…