Agabus binds his own hands with Paul’s belt, and everyone present — Luke included — begs him not to go. Pastor Adam sits with how hard that is: community is where you hear, and then you still decide.

Paul preaches a man out of a third-storey window and then raises him. Pastor Adam uses it to ask whether that power is still on offer, and hands over the line the message turns on: if you don’t believe in miracles, you will be proven right.

Three words in Acts 20 carry the message: he was accompanied by. Pastor Adam argues that who travels with you sets where you end up, shows how the Greek makes encouragement a shovel rather than a compliment, and names what changed between nineteen and twenty-five.

Paul never preached against Artemis and never called a boycott. He said gods made by human hands are not gods, people believed it, and the trade collapsed on its own. Pastor Adam takes that into a city that is post-Christian rather than pre-Christian.

Fifty thousand drachmas of scrolls burned in public — well over a century of wages — and the next sentence says the word of the Lord grew in power. Pastor Adam argues the growth was downstream of the bonfire, and asks what still needs to go in.

The evil spirit answers the sons of Sceva with the line the message hangs on: Jesus I know, Paul I know about, but who are you? Pastor Adam separates dunamis from kratos and argues that on this ground, neutrality is not one of the options.

Write three names. Pastor Joe Brandi separates boldness from persuasion in Acts 19, tells how a street preacher who never listened still got his attention — and then reads out the text he sent his own sister between services.

Paul finds twelve disciples in Ephesus who have not heard there is a Holy Spirit. Pastor Adam opens the third missionary journey on being stuck, dismantles the idea that tongues prove salvation, and lands in Ezekiel’s rising river.

Paul in Athens among the altars, at the last stop… read more