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Lot has conviction in abundance — Second Peter says he was tormented daily by what he lived among. What he never develops is resolution. Pastor Adam traces the hesitation from the angels grabbing his hand to a cave, and closes with Lincoln setting down the pen.

Second Peter calls Lot righteous. His story still ends in a cave. Pastor Adam opens two weeks on Lot with the uncomfortable question underneath that — whether a person can be counted righteous and still end up away from the blessing.

Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Pastor Adam reads the bargaining over Sodom as God disclosing his plan to someone he knows will argue — and closes with the eighteen-year-old who left his foxhole in 1968 to carry Adam’s brother out.

By the time the visitors promise a son within the year, this is the sixth time Abraham and Sarah have heard it. Rondi Pogue preaches the laugh behind the tent flap, the question God asks instead of a rebuke, and draws a careful line around what faith does and does not guarantee.

Abraham has a plan B and its name is Ishmael. Pastor Adam works through what it costs to settle, counts 2,774 failed light bulbs, and then undoes his own framework: asked what plan A actually is, the answer turns out to be your heart.

Every agreement God made with humanity was broken from the human side, and a broken agreement normally ends the relationship. Pastor Adam walks the four Old Testament covenants, tells a genuinely bad story from 1979, and arrives at why there had to be a new one.