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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…