Have you ever noticed how many warning signs and warning labels there are these days? We see them on food products and personal hygiene items. We hear them on advertisements for prescription drugs. They’re everywhere and in my opinion many of them go a bit overboard. This week found out that I’m not the only […]
Sermons by Mark Adams
God’s Messengers
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: December 16, 2012 | Scripture Reference: 1 Kings 17-19; 2 Kings 2; 4; 6; Hosea 4-5; 8-9; 14; Amos 1; 3-5; 9 |
A Kingdom Torn in Two
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: December 9, 2012 | Scripture Reference: 1 Kings 12-16 |
As most of you know, like my father before me, I got my Masters Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. I have lots of wonderful memories of the things I learned while I was on that campus and one is from my very first semester there. Shortly after I moved […]
The King Who Had It All
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: December 2, 2012 | Scripture Reference: 1 Kings 1-8; 10-11; 2 Chronicles 5-7; Proverbs 1-3; 6; 20-21 |
Whenever a passenger plane crashes, it makes the news. We all stay tuned to get the details, because a lot of us fly and when one of those airliners goes down, we want to know why. Specifically, we want to know what went wrong in the hope that the next time we get in one […]
The Trials of a King
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: November 25, 2012 | Scripture Reference: 2 Samuel 11-12; 18-19; 1 Chronicles 22; 29; Psalm 23; 32; 51 |
In his book, Cast of Characters Lost and Found, Max Lucado reports that when Pope John Paul died, a man named Rogers Cadenhead quickly claimed the Internet domain name for what he thought would be the name of the next pope. Cadenhead registered www.BenedictXVI.com before the new pope’s name was announced. I don’t know HOW […]
From Shepherd to King
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: November 18, 2012 | Scripture Reference: 1 Samuel 16-18, 24, 31; 2 Samuel 6, 22; 1 Chronicles 17; Psalm 59 |
When I was 17 years old, with the help of my youth director, I was able to do what I thought would be impossible: I convinced my parents to let me buy a used motorcycle. It wasn’t a big bike, just a Honda 100 like this one, but it was a metallic gold color and […]
Standing Tall, Falling Hard
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: November 11, 2012 | Scripture Reference: 1 Samuel 1-4; 8-13; 15 |
Way back in the dark ages, I’m talking about the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s, when I was in high school, back then just like today’s teens we had certain clothing style fads. Like today’s young people we wore what everyone else wore because more than anything we wanted to fit in. Sure, we talked […]
The Faith a Foreign Woman
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: November 4, 2012 | Scripture Reference: Ruth 1-4 |
When I was a little boy, I remember one year my heart was set on getting a special toy for Christmas. It was a space station set and it was very cool. More than anything I wanted to find it under the tree on Christmas morning. Besides the station proper that had several levels and […]
The Battle Begins
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: October 21, 2012 | Scripture Reference: Joshua 6:22-25; Hebrews 11:31 |
If you are our guest, you need to know that we are in a 31-week study of the entire Bible, using a book called The Story. The Story is a condensed version of the Bible in story form. If you’d like a copy we have them available in our church library for $10, or for […]
Wandering
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: October 14, 2012 | Scripture Reference: Numbers 10-14; 20-21; 25; 27; Deuteronomy 1-2; 4; 6; 8-9; 29-32; 34 |
Deuteronomy 8:1 – Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers. 2 – Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty […]
New Commands and a New Covenant
| Series: The Story | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: October 7, 2012 | Scripture Reference: Exodus 19, 20; 24-25; 32-34; 40 |
Exodus 20:1 – And God spoke all these words: 2 – I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 – You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 – You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in […]