Harry Wilson preaches Psalm 119 on God as an authoritative Father, which is neither authoritarian nor permissive. The psalm is relentlessly about law, and yet its verbs are all affection, which is the tension the message works.

Bryce Maurer, who pastors a revitalising church in Livingston, Montana, preaches Matthew 5 on salt and light — noting that both are stated as identity rather than instruction, which changes entirely what the warnings that follow are doing.

Simon fishes all night for nothing, a carpenter tells him where to put the nets, and the catch nearly sinks two boats. His first response is to ask Jesus to leave. Pastor Adam takes that seriously: discipleship exposes sin before it does anything else.

Eleven on a mountain, some worshipping and some doubting, and the commission handed to both. Pastor Adam opens Accelerate on the claim that precedes the command, and on there being no difference between believing for forgiveness and being sent.

The tribes make David king and cite not his lineage but that he led them out and brought them in. Pastor Adam builds on the difference between a king and a shepherd, and on the influence that comes from helping people win their own battles.

A long war, a house growing weaker, and a commander quietly strengthening his own position. Pastor Adam reads 2 Samuel 3 as a study in what fear does, arguing that fear is what makes people negotiate, and that God establishes kingdoms for surrendered hearts.

A series on David opens with a death, not a coronation. A man claims credit for killing Saul and expects a reward; David has him executed. Pastor Adam builds the series on that restraint, and on the thirty or so years David spent between anointing and throne.

A Christmas series on joy opens in Hebrews 12, with a race run under a cloud of witnesses. Pastor Adam treats joy as something produced rather than waited for, in three moves, and puts losing heart forward as the actual risk being guarded against.

Abram gives a tenth of everything to a priest-king centuries before any law requires it, then refuses to take a thread or a sandal strap from the king of Sodom. Pastor Adam uses both halves to make the case for the corporate tithe and the local church.