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Mark’s resurrection account is the least tidy of the four. Pastor Adam builds on one word — afterward — and on a pattern where Christ shows up following a disappointment, in a form nobody recognises until later.

The first service after everything moved online, recorded in what Adam jokingly calls the LJCF Studios. The stated aim is to stabilise and simplify rather than add to the noise — and the teaching is Christ’s self-emptying, preached in week one of a pandemic.

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.

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?

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.

The series opens well before the roof, with a king finally at rest in a house of cedar. Pastor Adam begins with what three decades of struggle produced — and with the fact that settled rest, a genuine blessing, is also the condition David is in when everything turns.

God tells Jeremiah he was known before he was formed; Jeremiah says he is only a youth. Harry Wilson pairs that with the harder verse later in the book — if runners wearied you, how will you compete with horses — and asks whether difficulty is obstacle or training.

Harry Wilson preaches Psalm 119 on God as an authoritative Father, which is neither authoritarian nor permissive. The psalm is relentlessly about law, and yet its verbs are all affection, which is the tension the message works.