Malachi 3 is one of the few places God invites people to test him, and it is about money. Pastor Adam opens SPENT there, traces the tithe back to Abram and Melchizedek before any law required it, and refuses the transactional reading the title names.

Some form of the word encourage appears eight times in Acts, twice as often as anywhere else. Pastor Adam builds the case on Barnabas, who vouched for Saul when the disciples were afraid of him, and argues much of the New Testament exists downstream of that.

Pastor Adam defines gossip sharply enough to remove its defences: a coercive social weapon that creates influence for whoever shares it. Ephesians 4:29 supplies a standard higher than merely being true, and James 1:26 supplies the harder line.

James says no human being can tame the tongue. Pastor Adam opens the series by asking why Scripture gives words that much weight, tracing “God said” nine times through Genesis 1 and Jesus himself being called the Word.

Peter says he is going fishing, and six others follow him back to what they know best. Pastor Adam reads John 21 as a resurrection appearance that opens with breakfast rather than rebuke, on a fire already lit and a meal that never depended on the catch.

“My peace I give you, not as the world gives.” Pastor Adam works the message around that qualifier, on a Father and Son who make a home rather than pay a visit, and on obedience as a symptom of love rather than its price.

“Ask me for anything in my name.” Pastor Adam takes it at full strength, then asks why so few pray as if it were true, naming guilt, unbelief and competing passions as three routes to the same silence, and refusing to dodge whether God has ever disappointed you in prayer.

Jesus says the words he speaks are not his own. Pastor Adam argues that is not modesty but a claim to deity, that everything Jesus said was a translation of the Father’s heart, and that the same pattern is what makes “greater works than these” a description of delegation.

Thomas admits he does not know where Jesus is going. Pastor Adam refuses to soften the answer that follows, redirects it from gatekeeping a destination to the destination being a person, and notes how much of Scripture is people standing in God’s presence without recognising it.