Acts 2 describes the earliest church in startlingly concrete terms: teaching, the fellowship, bread, prayer. Pastor Adam argues that is devotion rather than attendance, and asks whether devotion to a…
The last Sunday of the year lands on James 1 and its instruction to consider trials joy. Pastor Adam works it through endurance, notes how little in modern life teaches…
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” Pastor Adam preaches joy at the point in December when many can least manufacture it, describing hope as the long road joy travels before…
Some form of the word encourage appears eight times in Acts, twice as often as anywhere else. Pastor Adam builds the case on Barnabas, who vouched for Saul when the…
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…
Jonah prays from the worst possible address. Pastor Adam reads Jonah 2 as a case study in what a person reaches for when nothing else is within reach, argues that…