Division doesn’t just weaken the church — according to Ephesians 2, it contradicts the entire point of the cross. Pastor Adam Stadtmiller walks through what Jesus actually accomplished: not just saving individuals, but tearing down the wall between them and creating one new humanity. The call to unity isn’t a nicety. It’s the evidence the world is waiting for.

Before anything else can matter — mission, unity, maturity — the church has to settle one question: who are we? Pastor Adam Stadtmiller opens The Church series in Ephesians 1, tracing what it means to be chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son, and sealed by the Spirit. Not as doctrine to affirm, but as a foundation to stand on.

Most of us live far below the capacity available to us. On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Adam skips the argument about tongues and goes after dunamis — the explosive power Jesus told the disciples to wait for, and what it looks like on an ordinary Tuesday.

“Bless me, even me also, O my father.” Esau arrived moments too late, and many people live in that same posture. But if the blessing is already secured in Christ, the question is no longer how to get it — it is what activates it.

Satan has many tools, and deception may be the most dangerous, because deceived people rarely know they are drifting. Jacob and Isaac show how blindness and unchecked appetite create the conditions — and why willpower is not the remedy.

Four people in Genesis 27, each operating from a distorted picture of reality, and each with a reason that made sense to them. The warning is sharp: deception does not look wrong. It looks right.

John sees a city with no temple, no sun and no moon — just the Lamb, lighting everything permanently. Pastor Harry reframes heaven as a person rather than a place, and reads the open gates as both total safety and total welcome.

The Transfiguration as the hinge where Old Testament glory hands off to New. Pastor Adam finds three deliberate echoes of Exodus in the scene, and borrows from Lewis to argue that glory is not brightness or achievement — it is acceptance.

Moses asks to see God’s glory and is put in the cleft of a rock. Pastor Adam traces glory from something rare, restricted and risky, through the incarnation, to something a believer is now invited to host rather than merely behold.