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…
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…
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 spends a whole message on Bathsheba before returning to David, noting the text never blames her and that Matthew’s genealogy declines her name, calling her the one who…
“I will not leave you as orphans” only means something if the condition is real. Pastor Adam inventories what an orphan actually lacks, name, history, belonging, legitimacy, and argues Jesus…