Moses asks to see God’s glory and is put in the cleft of a rock. Pastor Adam traces glory from something rare, restricted and risky, through the incarnation, to something…
Christmas Eve turns on a small word used twice in verse 5: Joseph registers with Mary, who is with child. Pastor Adam makes “with” the whole message — and is…
One point this week: when do you stay, when do you fight, and when do you run? An angel gives Joseph two verbs and no explanation. Pastor Adam notes what…
Two men walk into the same room — one in a gold ring, one in rags — and James watches which seat each is offered. Pastor Joshua Pigg takes partiality…
A father takes out a newspaper advertisement for his estranged son — all is forgiven — and eight hundred young men named Paco come to the meeting place. Elliott Stearns…
Elijah is the headline, but this week belongs to the civil servant. Obadiah ran Ahab’s household and hid a hundred prophets fifty at a time — and then argued with…