Peter doesn’t just say you’ve been given a gift — he tells you exactly where it belongs: sandwiched between a mature, praying, loving life and the glory of God. Pastor Adam unpacks what it means to be a steward, not an owner, of what you’ve been given.

Is your church Spirit-filled? Pastor Adam Stadtmiller reframes the question: the primary evidence of the Holy Spirit isn’t what you can do — it’s who you’re becoming. Fruit is grown. Gifts are given. And only one of them requires abiding.

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.

The annual Thanksgiving message takes a Hebrew word as its key — todah — and spends its first stretch on what the research actually says about gratitude. Then three things it does: brings peace, opens the door, and wins battles.

Elijah has the altar soaked until the trench overflows — deliberately removing every explanation that is not God. Pastor Adam separates that from wisdom, tells the story of a job he turned down with two thousand dollars to his name, and lands on preparation.

Before any fire falls, Elijah does two ordinary things: he tells the people to come near, and he rebuilds what was torn down. Pastor Adam turns twelve stones into twelve areas to inspect, and names the four quiet things that pull an altar apart.

James 1:5-8 — if any of you lacks wisdom, ask…. read more

Genesis 25 and the birth of Jacob and Esau, on… read more

Luke 1:5-17 again, the day after Pearl Harbor Day, with… read more