John 2 and the cleansing of the temple. A whip… read more

Jesus goes looking for one man by name. Pastor Adam builds on that, borrows a line from his daughter about churches that treat people like Instagram followers, and admits he has no idea what happened under the fig tree.

Jesus starts his public ministry at a wedding that has run out of wine — no speech, no marketing, no investors. Pastor Adam works through the symbolism, the six jars filled to the brim, and the detail that the servants knew before anyone important did.

John says four words — look, the Lamb of God — and two of his own disciples walk away after Jesus. He does nothing to stop it. Pastor Adam builds the message on the freeing part of that: you are not responsible for the encounter.

John sees Jesus coming and says look — the Lamb of God. That gesture is his whole ministry. On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Adam argues baptism is a launch pad rather than a finish line, and then fills the tub at the last minute to prove he means it.

Asked who he is, John answers three times with who he is not — and only then says what he is: a voice. Pastor Adam builds confessing and waymaking out of that, and tests it on his own church rather than the congregation.

The world was made through him and did not recognize him. Pastor Adam spends the message on recognition — a jacket given away outside a movie theatre, a conversation that refused to follow the script — and lets everyone off the hook for closing the deal.

“Monday was a testimony. The rest of the week was blessed.” Pastor Adam takes a line from a Brooklyn Bible study into John 1:14, where the Word pitches a tent among us — and asks where you are pitching yours.

John was not the light. He reflected it — and Pastor Adam builds three things about living sent on that distinction, including an honest account of a recent encounter where he knew he should speak, couldn’t, and has no impressive story to show for it.