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.

Matthew 8:14-17. Peter’s mother-in-law healed with a touch, and she… read more

Matthew 8:28-34 and the two demon-possessed men at Gennesaret. The… read more

Matthew 8 and the cleansing of a leper — an… read more

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.

Acts 3 and the healed man at the temple gate,… read more

Jesus goes looking for one man by name. Pastor Adam builds on that, borrows a line from his daughter about churches that treat people like Instagram followers, and admits he has no idea what happened under the fig tree.

Jesus starts his public ministry at a wedding that has run out of wine — no speech, no marketing, no investors. Pastor Adam works through the symbolism, the six jars filled to the brim, and the detail that the servants knew before anyone important did.

Paul preaches a man out of a third-storey window and then raises him. Pastor Adam uses it to ask whether that power is still on offer, and hands over the line the message turns on: if you don’t believe in miracles, you will be proven right.