Moses asks to see God’s glory and is put in the cleft of a rock. Pastor Adam traces glory from something rare, restricted and risky, through the incarnation, to something a believer is now invited to host rather than merely behold.

Christmas Eve turns on a small word used twice in verse 5: Joseph registers with Mary, who is with child. Pastor Adam makes “with” the whole message — and is honest that he is currently surrounded by prayers that are not being answered.

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.

Two men walk into the same room — one in a gold ring, one in rags — and James watches which seat each is offered. Pastor Joshua Pigg takes partiality as seriously as the letter does: faith that favours is faith that falters.

A father takes out a newspaper advertisement for his estranged son — all is forgiven — and eight hundred young men named Paco come to the meeting place. Elliott Stearns takes Hemingway’s story, and the life behind it, into what a father actually supplies.

Elijah is the headline, but this week belongs to the civil servant. Obadiah ran Ahab’s household and hid a hundred prophets fifty at a time — and then argued with Elijah about getting killed. Pastor Adam treats that doubt as permission rather than failure.

John has just been arrested, and that is when Jesus starts. Pastor Adam works through what makes a kairos moment, why they are easy to miss — and ends somewhere else entirely: the work does not need you, but he wants your company while he does it.

Everyone wants the breakthrough moment; almost nobody wants the ordinary weeks that prepare for it. Pastor Adam opens a series on chronos and kairos with fruit picked early and gassed into ripeness — it looks the part and has nothing in it.

John 13:31-35. Judas has gone out, and Jesus calls this… read more