Proverbs 1 opening the new year, on Scripture as God’s… read more

Isaiah 11 and a shoot coming up from the stump… read more

Jesus leaves after John is imprisoned, and Pastor Adam refuses the obvious reading: this is strategic withdrawal, into border country Isaiah called deep darkness. God does some of his best work in obscurity — and the confession that follows is unflattering.

Joseph was faithful to the law, and yet would not expose Mary to disgrace. Pastor Adam makes those three words the hinge — faithfulness to the law required her death — and builds Advent on consideration, obedience, and four words to carry into the week.

Psalm 100 for Thanksgiving, on how easily thankfulness is misplaced… read more

The seventh trumpet sounds and the announcement is already past tense: the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord. Pastor Adam admits it is the first time he has ever preached Revelation, and lands on two things for Wednesday.

John is handed a measuring rod and told to leave the outer court out of it. Pastor Adam does the hard background honestly, then brings it home: you are the temple now, and some courtyards in a life need excluding.

Pastor Adam changes his mind in front of everyone — he had always read the mighty angel as Jesus until seventy-two hours before preaching. The chapter is a pause, the scroll is eaten rather than read, and the message it produces has two flavours.

The order to release the sixth trumpet comes from the horns of the altar — the place people ran to for mercy. Pastor Adam traces the Euphrates as a boundary line, and corrects the record on his own addiction: God did not take it away.