God tells Jeremiah he was known before he was formed; Jeremiah says he is only a youth. Harry Wilson pairs that with the harder verse later in the book —…
“Lord, teach us to pray.” Pastor Adam takes Luke 11 as instruction rather than inspiration, and refuses to soften the parable that follows: Jesus commends a kind of asking that…
Mark’s Easter account is the strangest of the four: the women find the stone already moved, and run. Pastor Adam preaches it, and Pastor Jim reads the gospel in his…
A joyful crowd, genuinely mistaken about what it is celebrating. Pastor Adam preaches Palm Sunday as a warning that popularity is evidence of nothing in either direction, and that what…
Simon fishes all night for nothing, a carpenter tells him where to put the nets, and the catch nearly sinks two boats. His first response is to ask Jesus to…
Eleven on a mountain, some worshipping and some doubting, and the commission handed to both. Pastor Adam opens Accelerate on the claim that precedes the command, and on there being…