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.

Proverbs does not generally promise or command — it observes, and the observations hold most of the time rather than always. Reading it as guarantee produces disappointment; reading it as accumulated pattern produces something usable.

A series through Genesis begins with the subject of the first sentence rather than the mechanics of creation: God existed before time and created the beginning itself. Creation is thought brought into action, and light arrives first because it reveals truth.

Joab notices the king misses his son and engineers a reconciliation with a coached performance — pretend, act like, put words in her mouth. Pastor Adam builds on triangulation, and on manipulation that arrives with arguably good motives.

“If the world hates you, it hated me first.” Pastor Adam preaches John 15 on a position that is neither belonging nor withdrawing, and on hostility relocated away from the disciple’s personality onto the one being represented.

John sees a door open in heaven and describes the throne room. Pastor Adam opens on worship as a journey into what is actually the case, set against a moment where truth has been quietly reassigned to individuals as “your” truth.

Some form of the word encourage appears eight times in Acts, twice as often as anywhere else. Pastor Adam builds the case on Barnabas, who vouched for Saul when the disciples were afraid of him, and argues much of the New Testament exists downstream of that.

Mark 1:1-8, and the claim that the gospel loses something… read more

Brian Hardin of the Daily Audio Bible visits with his… read more