Sermons by Mark Adams

John 13: 14 – Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15 – I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. At the 1993 annual […]

1 Corinthians 15:12 – But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 – If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 – And if Christ has not […]

Luke 23:26 -As they led Him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. 27 – A large number of people followed Him, including women who mourned and wailed for Him. 28 – Jesus turned […]

My first room-mate in college was a guy named John Smith (real name withheld) and I think the housing office paired us up because on our application we both checked the box that said we were Christians. Plus John was a couple years ahead of me and back then colleges often matched upperclassmen like John […]

Isaiah 58:11 – [As a church family we know that] The Lord will guide us always; He will satisfy our needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen our frame. [When we trust in the Lord’s strength and not our own, our church] will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never […]

Have you ever made a blunder and you felt so foolish afterwards that if it were anatomically possible you would have kicked yourself? I don’t know about you but I have no problem coming up with a long list of times like that in my own life-times when I felt like such a dope! In […]

Like most of you, Sue and stayed up late most nights the past few weeks in order to watch the delayed broadcast of the Winter Olympic games that were being held in Turin, Italy. We pretty much watched it all. We loved the ice-skating and the snow board racing and down hill skiing. We were […]

One of my favorite “fun read” books as of late was Newt Gingrich’s Gettysburg, and I must confess, until I saw it on the shelf I didn’t know that Gingrich was a writer. I only knew him from the political headlines he made a few years back so I was very surprised to find him […]

One of my dad’s favorite TV shows was Get Smart. Do any of you remember that sitcom from yesteryear? Well, Dad loved it. He almost never missed an episode. He’d take a break from his sermon prep to watch because he really enjoyed the antics of Secret Agent 86, a role that was played by […]

Have you ever felt overwhelmed? Maybe you remember experiencing this feeling as a parent the first time you brought your baby home from the hospital. You instantly loved the little guy or gal with every molecule in your body, but as you considered the challenge of feeding, clothing, and parenting that child for the next […]