Proverbs 1 opens the year, and Pastor Adam starts with a premise instead of a point: God is always speaking, so the difficulty is discernment, not hiddenness. Three assignments follow — cancel the noise, live in the questions, and name an actual council.

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Matthew notes that the two men were so violent no one could pass that way. Pastor Adam builds on that: a blockage on a road, deliverance that clears a route — and a town that, having seen it, asks Jesus to leave.

The unclean spirit makes the most theologically accurate statement in the chapter — I know who you are, the Holy One of God — and Jesus silences it. Correct information about Jesus turns out not to be the same thing as relationship with him.

The disciples find Jesus praying alone and tell him everyone is looking for him. Pastor Adam builds on what he does next, which is not to go back, and on an agenda set in solitude before anyone asked for it.

David inquires, is answered, goes. Then it happens again and the answer is different: circle around, wait for the sound in the poplar trees. Pastor Adam makes the discipline the refusal to assume that what worked last time is the instruction this time.