The first service after everything moved online, recorded in what Adam jokingly calls the LJCF Studios. The stated aim is to stabilise and simplify rather than add to the noise — and the teaching is Christ’s self-emptying, preached in week one of a pandemic.

Jesus commends the widow not for the size of her gift but for what was left afterwards — a considerably more uncomfortable standard than the one most giving is measured by.

Two brothers bring offerings and one is received. The text is precise where it matters: some of the fruits of the soil, against fat portions from the firstborn. Pastor Adam reads the difference as being about what was held back.