The Transfiguration in Mark 9, brought by a visiting Scottish… read more

The opening of the Believe series, on the basic foundations… read more

Easter, and the risen Jesus walking into a locked room… read more

Harry Wilson closes the arc on the chapter where nobody behaves well and the person with the least power carries the most cost — and argues that Christ offends our sensibilities precisely by offering a path requiring submission rather than initiative.

Acts ends with Paul under house arrest, receiving visitors morning to evening. Some were convinced, others would not believe — recorded without embarrassment. He treats the rejection not as failure but as information about where to go next.

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.

Jesus commends the widow not for the size of her gift but for what was left afterwards — a considerably more uncomfortable standard than the one most giving is measured by.

The bush burns for some time before anyone speaks — God calls only when he sees Moses has gone over to look. Pastor Adam builds on an invitation that was conditional on curiosity, and asks what we walk past because investigating would cost us time.

A rich man climbs a tree to see over a crowd, and Jesus invites himself to dinner — reversing the direction of the invitation. What follows is restitution nobody demanded, offered at a level exceeding what the law required.