The first two words of the Lord’s Prayer do most of the work. Pastor Adam argues God as Father is among the most radical religious ideas ever proposed, builds it from Romans 8, Galatians 4 and Hebrews 4, and asks what prayer is for if the Father already knows.

Malachi and Matthew 19 on marriage and divorce, continuing a… read more

Matthew 5:27-30, on the Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr…. read more

Matthew 22:1-14 and the wedding banquet: invitations refused, the doors… read more

Jesus’ threefold question to Peter by the Sea of Galilee… read more

The baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3:13-17, John’s protest, and… read more