“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…
Pilate tells Jesus he has the power to free him or crucify him, and Jesus relocates the whole question. Pastor Adam opens The Politics of Jesus by dismantling the assumption…
The son rehearses a speech asking to be hired as a servant, and never gets to finish it. Dr. James Smith III preaches the prodigal son on Father’s Day, on…
The word of the Lord comes to Jonah a second time, and a city turns around on one sentence of warning. Pastor Adam works Jonah 3 around the word “if,”…
Greater love has no one than this. Harry Wilson takes John 15 out of abstraction by way of his own mother, a single parent raising three children in small apartments,…
1 John 2 on walking as Jesus walked, and on feeding from Scripture rather than merely reading it.