Write three names. Pastor Joe Brandi separates boldness from persuasion in Acts 19, tells how a street preacher who never listened still got his attention — and then reads out the text he sent his own sister between services.

Paul finds twelve disciples in Ephesus who have not heard there is a Holy Spirit. Pastor Adam opens the third missionary journey on being stuck, dismantles the idea that tongues prove salvation, and lands in Ezekiel’s rising river.

John sees Jesus coming and says look — the Lamb of God. That gesture is his whole ministry. On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Adam argues baptism is a launch pad rather than a finish line, and then fills the tub at the last minute to prove he means it.

Asked who he is, John answers three times with who he is not — and only then says what he is: a voice. Pastor Adam builds confessing and waymaking out of that, and tests it on his own church rather than the congregation.

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The world was made through him and did not recognize him. Pastor Adam spends the message on recognition — a jacket given away outside a movie theatre, a conversation that refused to follow the script — and lets everyone off the hook for closing the deal.

“Monday was a testimony. The rest of the week was blessed.” Pastor Adam takes a line from a Brooklyn Bible study into John 1:14, where the Word pitches a tent among us — and asks where you are pitching yours.

John was not the light. He reflected it — and Pastor Adam builds three things about living sent on that distinction, including an honest account of a recent encounter where he knew he should speak, couldn’t, and has no impressive story to show for it.

John opens where Genesis opens, and creation happens by speech. Pastor Adam takes that to its practical end — what you say comes out of what you are — and hands out a prescription: a seven-day criticism fast, then spend the words you saved on blessing.