James 3:13-18 sets two kinds of wisdom side by side: one earthly, unspiritual, and demonic, marked by bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, and one from above that is pure, peaceable, gentle, and full of mercy. Pastor Adam opens season two of Storm Proof with a diagnostic for every decision we face: will this action produce righteousness and peace?

Under the New Covenant nothing compels a gift: Paul writes instruction, not command, and verse 7 hands the decision to one settled heart at a time, chosen deliberately and in advance rather than under pressure. Pastor Adam makes the case that verse 10 joins provision and righteousness with a repeated “and” rather than offering a choice between them, argued carefully against his own instinct and against a colleague who reads it differently.

Deuteronomy 14 hands generosity a rhythm: a tenth set apart year by year, a feast to rejoice in God’s provision, and a third-year tithe laid up so the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow could eat and be filled. Pastor Adam works through the three shapes of giving under the Mosaic law and makes the case that a settled habit of generosity forms the soul in a way guilty, occasional giving never will.

Before the Law, before the tabernacle, before any command to tithe, two brothers brought God an offering. Pastor Adam opens a new series on giving with Cain and Abel in Genesis 4, and makes the case that provisional giving was worship long before anyone was ever told to do it.

Elijah finds his successor plowing a field, not standing on a stage. Pastor Adam traces the long gap between Elisha receiving the cloak and actually picking up the mantle years later, and argues that ordinary obedience, not readiness for the spotlight, is where God’s calling most often begins.

Elijah tells God the truth, almost entirely. Four honest statements and one lie: “I, even I only, am left.” Pastor Adam traces how God calls Elijah out of hiding not through wind, earthquake, or fire, but through a whisper close enough to require actual intimacy, and then corrects the lie with a truth Elijah never saw coming.

Before the wind, the earthquake, and the fire, there was a forty day walk and a cave. Pastor Adam traces exactly how Elijah got to the mountain of God, arguing that the places we dwell shape who we become, and that a specific, personal word from God is available to anyone willing to sit quietly long enough to receive it.

Hours after calling down fire on Mount Carmel, Elijah runs for his life and asks God to let him die under a broom tree. Pastor Adam opens a new series in 1 Kings with the man behind the miracle: before Elijah was a man of fire, he was a man of solitude, and God’s first response to his collapse was an angel bearing food, not a lecture.

An edict from Rome uprooted them, and it placed them directly in Paul’s path. Pastor Adam closes this series through Acts with Priscilla and Aquila, an ordinary couple whose tentmaking trade, open home, and willingness to quietly disciple a gifted teacher named Apollos left a mark on the early church that outlasted them.