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

Zechariah in Luke 1, struck silent at the altar of… read more

A rich man climbs a tree to see over a crowd, and Jesus invites himself to dinner — reversing the direction of the invitation. What follows is restitution nobody demanded, offered at a level exceeding what the law required.

Jesus says follow me to a tax collector, and Matthew’s first act as a disciple is to fill his house with his own circle. Nobody was cleaned up first — and Jesus tells the religious professionals watching to go and learn what mercy means.

A series on the miracles opens with a definition rather than an assumption, then notices the setting: Jesus leaves the synagogue and goes to a house, where the miracle happens for somebody’s relative after the service is over.

Two men in clothes like lightning ask the women why they are looking for the living among the dead. Pastor Adam turns the question on the room: where do we keep returning to look for life, knowing at some level what we will find there?

No good tree bears bad fruit. Pastor Adam takes Luke 6 as the diagnostic half of the series, landing on speech as involuntary disclosure rather than self-expression — the most reliable evidence available, and the hardest to manage.

“Lord, teach us to pray.” Pastor Adam takes Luke 11 as instruction rather than inspiration, and refuses to soften the parable that follows: Jesus commends a kind of asking that a polite person would be embarrassed by.

A joyful crowd, genuinely mistaken about what it is celebrating. Pastor Adam preaches Palm Sunday as a warning that popularity is evidence of nothing in either direction, and that what the road wanted was a political saviour rather than a universal king.