John 3:27-36 out in the Judean wilderness, in a book… read more

John 3:22-30. John the Baptist’s disciples are unsettled that the… read more

Joseph was faithful to the law, and yet would not expose Mary to disgrace. Pastor Adam makes those three words the hinge — faithfulness to the law required her death — and builds Advent on consideration, obedience, and four words to carry into the week.

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.

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.

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.

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.