Pastor Adam opens on sexuality with three readings rather than one, and the selection is the argument: humanity made male and female, everything made for its purpose, and what is plain about God from what has been made.

Romans 1 says God’s nature has been clearly seen in what was made. Pastor Adam takes that as a real claim about the natural world, then asks a question congregations rarely get: are you actually engaging nature as part of following Christ?

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.

A series on abundant living opens at the tree of life. Pastor Adam separates biological life from the kind that outlasts it, argues most people conflate them and settle for the first, and organises the message around what a tree consumes, where it is planted, and its fruit.

Pastor Adam returns to Psalm 23 and the observation that a shepherd does not run with his sheep. C.S. Lewis supplies the warning: take care when your outside is bigger than your inside — a structural problem, not a success story in progress.

Forgiveness arrives and so do consequences. Pastor Adam gives four hard-edged instructions, and notes what David does that his servants find incomprehensible: while the child lived he fasted on the ground; when the child died he got up and went to worship.

Pastor Adam preaches Psalm 51 by asking whether anyone should be forgiven, and treats it as a real question. The pastoral core is the part after forgiveness: a believer who has been forgiven and cannot function as though they have.

Nathan tells a story about a stolen lamb and David pronounces sentence on the man who did it. Pastor Adam notices that David’s moral judgment is working perfectly — it is simply not pointed at himself — and that the parable is a mirror held at the one unavoidable angle.