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.

Isaac digs one well after another as each is taken… read more

No angels this week — just a poor young couple doing what the law required. Pastor Adam makes the ordinariness the subject, and points out that the King of Glory arrived at his own temple and nobody noticed except two people who had been waiting.

Pastor Jim Smith brings a seed packet to the pulpit and turns the parable of the sower from a diagnosis into a question he has asked students for seventeen years: what quality and depth of soil do you want to offer?

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.

James 1:1-4 opens a study of the letter on Father’s… read more

The road to Emmaus: two people walking away from Jerusalem… read more

The same passage a week on — the struggle in… read more

God had spoken to Abraham at least nine times and never used his name. The first time he says “Abraham!” is the moment of the test. Pastor Adam reads that as a graduation, and asks whether anyone actually wants God to speak the way they say they do.