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?

His name was Joseph, but the apostles renamed him after the thing he was known for — encouragement. Pastor Adam traces Barnabas through Acts: the man who sold his land for others, vouched for Saul when no one else would, and gave John Mark a second chance that changed church history.

In the third message of The Church series, Pastor Adam takes up the third of four church purposes — Identity, Unity, Maturity, Mission — and reframes what maturity actually means. The goal of the church, he argues, is not attendance. It is conformity to the person of Jesus Christ, a distinction that sounds subtle but changes everything about how a believer lives.

Division doesn’t just weaken the church — according to Ephesians 2, it contradicts the entire point of the cross. Pastor Adam Stadtmiller walks through what Jesus actually accomplished: not just saving individuals, but tearing down the wall between them and creating one new humanity. The call to unity isn’t a nicety. It’s the evidence the world is waiting for.

Most of us live far below the capacity available to us. On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Adam skips the argument about tongues and goes after dunamis — the explosive power Jesus told the disciples to wait for, and what it looks like on an ordinary Tuesday.

Genesis 27 and a father’s blessing there was only one… read more

Genesis 26:12-16 and Isaac sowing in a year of famine… read more

Proverbs 31 and the woman who fears the Lord, opened… read more

One point this week: when do you stay, when do you fight, and when do you run? An angel gives Joseph two verbs and no explanation. Pastor Adam notes what gets missed — the escape was funded before it was ordered.