Under the New Covenant nothing compels a gift: Paul writes instruction, not command, and verse 7 hands the decision to one settled heart at a time, chosen deliberately and in advance rather than under pressure. Pastor Adam makes the case that verse 10 joins provision and righteousness with a repeated “and” rather than offering a choice between them, argued carefully against his own instinct and against a colleague who reads it differently.

Elijah tells God the truth, almost entirely. Four honest statements and one lie: “I, even I only, am left.” Pastor Adam traces how God calls Elijah out of hiding not through wind, earthquake, or fire, but through a whisper close enough to require actual intimacy, and then corrects the lie with a truth Elijah never saw coming.

Hours after calling down fire on Mount Carmel, Elijah runs for his life and asks God to let him die under a broom tree. Pastor Adam opens a new series in 1 Kings with the man behind the miracle: before Elijah was a man of fire, he was a man of solitude, and God’s first response to his collapse was an angel bearing food, not a lecture.

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.

While a city in Samaria is still buzzing from revival, God sends Philip the other direction — to a desert road, to minister to one man. Pastor Harry unpacks what happens when the church trades the crowd for the one, and what it costs, and gains, to carry the gospel that far.

What does it take to qualify for bearing spiritual fruit? In this message from John 15, Campus Pastor Joshua Pigg makes the case that the bar is simpler than we think — and harder than we make it. The only qualification is connection to Christ.

Before anything else can matter — mission, unity, maturity — the church has to settle one question: who are we? Pastor Adam Stadtmiller opens The Church series in Ephesians 1, tracing what it means to be chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son, and sealed by the Spirit. Not as doctrine to affirm, but as a foundation to stand on.

“Bless me, even me also, O my father.” Esau arrived moments too late, and many people live in that same posture. But if the blessing is already secured in Christ, the question is no longer how to get it — it is what activates it.

Four people in Genesis 27, each operating from a distorted picture of reality, and each with a reason that made sense to them. The warning is sharp: deception does not look wrong. It looks right.