Sermons by Mark Adams

Last Sunday as I drove back from our state convention in Ocean City I passed the time by listening to a message Bill Hybels delivered at this year’s Leadership Summit. In part of the talk Hybels invited his hearers to compare two purchases made by his late father. The FIRST happened when Hybels was a […]

1 -Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. 2 – But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. 3 – For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 13 – Surely in vain have I kept my […]

This week I decided to make a list of things that DON’T go together and I thought it would be good to begin my message by sharing my list with you. So here it is. Here are things that I think DON’T go together: Hair dryers and bath tubs Vegetable flavoring and Ice Cream Sumo […]

This week I tried to get a GOOGLE WALLET card for my mom.  I found the website and looked for instructions as to how to get it such that it would work with her bank account. After reading through web page after web page without finding any help I looked where I often looked when […]

31 – “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His throne in heavenly glory. 32 – All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 […]

This morning we’re wrapping up a series of sermons the purpose of which has been to answer to a very important question, namely: “What does the Bible teach about MEN and WOMEN?” In this last sermon we are NARROWING the focus a bit to deal with the Bible’s teachings when it comes to submission in […]

43 – Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. 44 – And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; 45 – and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. 46 – […]

A year or so after I became a pastor I purchased this picture. You can come up later for a closer look but it shows an elderly pastor in his library. He’s on a step ladder engrossed in a book he’s pulled off an upper shelf. Underneath the picture Paul’s charge to Timothy is printed.  […]

On February 22, 1911 an inventor named Gaston Hervieu climbed the Eiffel Tower to test a new parachute for pilots. He checked the wind, took a nervous breath, and began. As you can see in this picture, his silk parachute filled with air, then sailed safely to the ground.  Now—Hervieu did not make the jump […]

As you know, about two years ago Sue and I went to Israel as part of my sabbatical.  During the eleven hour flight over we sat behind a family of Hassidic Jews. The father sat directly in front of us and his wife with three small children sat across the aisle from him. As our […]