“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.

Two statements that will not resolve: failure to plan is planning to fail, and faith does not always pencil out. Pastor Harry works Proverbs 16 through both, tests his own motives out loud on a Ferrari, and lands on a quiet life.

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The Sunday after Christmas opens with Sinatra, and a stated purpose: wisdom to set 2022 on a different trajectory than the two years before it. Proverbs suits that — wisdom literature is a distinct genre, accumulated observation rather than promise or command.

The first service after everything moved online, recorded in what Adam jokingly calls the LJCF Studios. The stated aim is to stabilise and simplify rather than add to the noise — and the teaching is Christ’s self-emptying, preached in week one of a pandemic.

The serpent’s first move is a question, not a temptation. Pastor Adam tracks how the exchange escalates, and argues sin rarely follows a straight line: what she finally sees are three separate, individually reasonable goods.

Two men go up on a roof. David sees a woman and sends for her; Peter goes to pray and is given a vision he refuses three times. Dr. James Smith III sets the passages side by side and asks what a person does with a high place and some solitude.