The seventh seal, and the silence in heaven — then… read more

The Proverbs run closes with thanks to the volunteers who put on most of the service, and an invitation to be part of the family rather than an audience for it — wisdom literature applied to the question of how a person actually spends a year.

The revival series takes up the same whisper the midweek workshop was working through, and points it at the church rather than the individual — on reaching back into history when the ground is moving, and on the difference between visiting and belonging.

Jesus says when you fast, not if. The message stays with a practice arranged around being unseen — and the scripture is read audio-only by a worker in the Middle East who cannot be seen without risking the people she serves alongside.

Harry Wilson sets two passages side by side: Jesus says “come and see” to two disciples, and Mary’s household says it back to him at a grave. Between them sits a man weeping ten minutes before raising the dead, with no practical reason to cry.

Rondi Pogue starts generously: the crowd follows Jesus because they have seen him heal people, which is not a pure motive, and he feeds them anyway. The question he asks Philip was never for information — Jesus asks questions to teach.

A series on the miracles opens with a definition rather than an assumption, then notices the setting: Jesus leaves the synagogue and goes to a house, where the miracle happens for somebody’s relative after the service is over.

Paul writes about contentment from prison, and says he learned it. Pastor Adam works Philippians 4 as a recipe rather than a sentiment, and puts a fill-in-the-blank question to the room: if I had ______, then I would be content.

“Lord, teach us to pray.” Pastor Adam takes Luke 11 as instruction rather than inspiration, and refuses to soften the parable that follows: Jesus commends a kind of asking that a polite person would be embarrassed by.