Genesis 16 is a family in ruins: Sarai desperate, Abram weak and then disengaged, Hagar running into the desert. And the one who gives God a name is the mistreated servant girl — El Roi, the God who sees me.

Isaiah’s servant has no beauty or majesty to attract us. Pastor Adam closes the series on Christmas with three things about that Jesus — despised, broken, and salvific — and a boy in a riptide who pushed his own board away insisting he did not need help.

Isaiah 53:9-10, preached on returning from two weeks with the… read more

Isaiah 53:6-7. We all like sheep have gone astray, and… read more

Isaiah 53:4-5 on the pain that brings peace, set against… read more

Isaiah 53:3 and a Messiah described as despised and rejected… read more

Isaiah 53 opens the Christmas series: a prophecy written some… read more

Lydia in Acts 16, a dealer in purple cloth whose… read more

John 3:16 — arguably the best-known verse there is —… read more