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.

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 disciples were afraid of him, and argues much of the New Testament exists downstream of that.