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.

A series on rest ends by defending work. Pastor Adam takes Proverbs 6 to the ant, separates work from toil by way of Genesis 3 and Colossians 3, and argues that sloth and overwork are two versions of the same refusal to live inside a design.

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