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.

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.

Greater love has no one than this. Harry Wilson takes John 15 out of abstraction by way of his own mother, a single parent raising three children in small apartments, and draws a line between building a resume of interesting things and bearing fruit that actually abides.

Easter Sunday in Luke 24, with greetings carried down the… read more

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John 12 at Bethany, six days before the Passover: Mary… read more

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Matthew 22:1-14 and the wedding banquet: invitations refused, the doors… read more