Thomas admits he does not know where Jesus is going. Pastor Adam refuses to soften the answer that follows, redirects it from gatekeeping a destination to the destination being a person, and notes how much of Scripture is people standing in God’s presence without recognising it.

Pastor Adam presses a question congregations are rarely asked directly: what are you actually asking God for? James 4 supplies the uncomfortable answer, and C.S. Lewis supplies the frame, that heaven is the land of substance and earth the land of shadow.

The first two words of the Lord’s Prayer do most of the work. Pastor Adam argues God as Father is among the most radical religious ideas ever proposed, builds it from Romans 8, Galatians 4 and Hebrews 4, and asks what prayer is for if the Father already knows.

“I will not leave you as orphans” only means something if the condition is real. Pastor Adam inventories what an orphan actually lacks, name, history, belonging, legitimacy, and argues Jesus is naming a spiritual condition that shows up in people whose households were fine.

Romans 13 tells believers to submit to governing authorities, and Pastor Adam refuses to soften it. He sets Galatians 5 alongside it, argues neither church nor state produces righteousness by rule, and leaves Daniel’s defiance as an open question rather than answering it.

Pilate tells Jesus he has the power to free him or crucify him, and Jesus relocates the whole question. Pastor Adam opens The Politics of Jesus by dismantling the assumption most believers hold quietly: that Jesus’ political views happen to match their own.

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.

Leviticus 25 gives the land itself a Sabbath. Pastor Adam defines stress three ways, all of them a mismatch between load and design, and puts the test bluntly: if you are not taking a Sabbath, something is already wrong. Things that do not rest break.

You will rarely see a shepherd running with his sheep. Pastor Adam works Psalm 23 into a question about which voices a restless person is actually following, and lands on contentment as a key to rest rather than a reward for achieving it.