Christine Garde Denning preaches on hope from two poles: reeds that wither fastest while still green, and an anchor for the soul. The distinction is that hope is defined by what it is attached to rather than by how strongly it is felt.

Romans 1 says God’s nature has been clearly seen in what was made. Pastor Adam takes that as a real claim about the natural world, then asks a question congregations rarely get: are you actually engaging nature as part of following Christ?

Two men in clothes like lightning ask the women why they are looking for the living among the dead. Pastor Adam turns the question on the room: where do we keep returning to look for life, knowing at some level what we will find there?

No good tree bears bad fruit. Pastor Adam takes Luke 6 as the diagnostic half of the series, landing on speech as involuntary disclosure rather than self-expression — the most reliable evidence available, and the hardest to manage.

A series on abundant living opens at the tree of life. Pastor Adam separates biological life from the kind that outlasts it, argues most people conflate them and settle for the first, and organises the message around what a tree consumes, where it is planted, and its fruit.

Two men go up on a roof. David sees a woman and sends for her; Peter goes to pray and is given a vision he refuses three times. Dr. James Smith III sets the passages side by side and asks what a person does with a high place and some solitude.

Pastor Adam returns to Psalm 23 and the observation that a shepherd does not run with his sheep. C.S. Lewis supplies the warning: take care when your outside is bigger than your inside — a structural problem, not a success story in progress.

Rondi Pogue, who directs a ministry working in conferences, India and the local jails, preaches on the question her work puts her in front of constantly: am I bad? The distinction the message rests on is shame as a claim about what a person is.

Forgiveness arrives and so do consequences. Pastor Adam gives four hard-edged instructions, and notes what David does that his servants find incomprehensible: while the child lived he fasted on the ground; when the child died he got up and went to worship.