Ahab’s first words are an accusation: you troubler of Israel. Pastor Adam draws out what that reveals, then asks how long anyone can go limping between two opinions — and finds his illustration in a baseball cap worn by someone who didn’t support the team.

Elijah is the headline, but this week belongs to the civil servant. Obadiah ran Ahab’s household and hid a hundred prophets fifty at a time — and then argued with Elijah about getting killed. Pastor Adam treats that doubt as permission rather than failure.

The brook dries up and God’s next instruction is worse: go to Jezebel’s home territory, where a starving widow will feed you. Pastor Adam sits with what Elijah asks of her, and with the shape of the provision — the flour never ran out and never overflowed.

Having just confronted a king, Elijah is told to hide. Pastor Adam refuses to smooth that over — separation, solitude, sustenance — and asks the question underneath it: what is actually sustaining your decisions right now?

Elijah arrives in scripture with no genealogy, no calling narrative — he simply walks into the worst king’s court and announces a drought. Pastor Adam opens the series on what a change maker is, and why every person listening has a place that needs one.

Pastor Jim Smith brings a seed packet to the pulpit and turns the parable of the sower from a diagnosis into a question he has asked students for seventeen years: what quality and depth of soil do you want to offer?

John has just been arrested, and that is when Jesus starts. Pastor Adam works through what makes a kairos moment, why they are easy to miss — and ends somewhere else entirely: the work does not need you, but he wants your company while he does it.

Everyone wants the breakthrough moment; almost nobody wants the ordinary weeks that prepare for it. Pastor Adam opens a series on chronos and kairos with fruit picked early and gassed into ripeness — it looks the part and has nothing in it.

James 1:26-27. Pure religion is looking after widows and orphans… read more