Genesis 25 and the death of Abraham, on God’s plan… read more

Genesis 24 and Abraham’s servant at the well. Servanthood is… read more

God says Abraham, and Abraham says here I am — a person already oriented toward the voice before knowing what it will ask. Pastor Adam traces that faith back through every earlier hinge, arguing it was built in instalments rather than summoned on the mountain.

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.

Paul goes to Jerusalem not knowing what waits, warned in every city. Nic Gilmore preaches it with the question turned on himself, names the problem of suffering rather than stepping around it, and asks whether any of us are on track to finish well.

Agabus binds his own hands with Paul’s belt, and everyone present — Luke included — begs him not to go. Pastor Adam sits with how hard that is: community is where you hear, and then you still decide.

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.

Abraham is ninety-nine and the dream has been dead long enough to stop being mentioned. Pastor Adam preaches against the discount — the not-talented-enough, not-young-enough markdown we apply to our own dreams — and insists that fulfillment is usually work, not miracle.

Nehemiah surveys the ruins by night before telling anyone what… read more