Isaiah 11 and a shoot coming up from the stump… read more

Jesus leaves after John is imprisoned, and Pastor Adam refuses the obvious reading: this is strategic withdrawal, into border country Isaiah called deep darkness. God does some of his best work in obscurity — and the confession that follows is unflattering.

Joseph was faithful to the law, and yet would not expose Mary to disgrace. Pastor Adam makes those three words the hinge — faithfulness to the law required her death — and builds Advent on consideration, obedience, and four words to carry into the week.

Isaiah’s servant has no beauty or majesty to attract us. Pastor Adam closes the series on Christmas with three things about that Jesus — despised, broken, and salvific — and a boy in a riptide who pushed his own board away insisting he did not need help.

Isaiah 53:9-10, preached on returning from two weeks with the… read more

Isaiah 53:6-7. We all like sheep have gone astray, and… read more

Isaiah 53:4-5 on the pain that brings peace, set against… read more

Isaiah 53:3 and a Messiah described as despised and rejected… read more