Sermons by Mark Adams

A few months ago Sue and I decided to spend the afternoon of my day off watching a movie. So, after hurriedly getting our unavoidable “Thursday errands” done, we placed a carry out order at our favorite Chinese food restaurant and while it was being prepared we walked a few doors down to the local […]

I don’t know if anyone’s counting but we’ve been studying the book of Acts together now for about eight months and we’ve covered a lot of basic Christian truth. For example, we’ve learned a lot about MISSIONS beginning with our study of how the very first Christians obeyed our Lord’s command and shared the Gospel, […]

In the winter of 1979 the church I grew up in-The First Southern Baptist Church of Dover, Delaware-a church my father pastored for 27 years-this church that I tend to refer to as my “home church” – well, it went through a nasty split. And-it happened about the same time Sue and I decided to […]

p>Matthew 20:25-28 25 – Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26 – Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 27 – and whoever wants to be […]

Have you ever ADMIRED a particular church? You heard or read about the things they do and the way they do them and you thought, “Now, THAT is a church!” Perhaps like me you ADMIRE Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois-and they have a lot to admire-a wonderful pastor-BILL HYBELS-one of the greatest […]

Usually I start my sermons with a bit of humor-but this morning I felt led to get your attention in the opposite way-by asking you a serious question, namely: “Have you ever experienced a ‘dead end’ in life?” I mean, have you ever been faced with a problem that you just knew was impossible to […]

Several years ago Time magazine carried a story about a controversy that once raged in a Waterloo, Iowa courthouse over the question, “What is a Christian?” It all started when a local doctor who had been very wealthy died-and when his will was read it was discovered that he had left a large sum of […]

About a month ago, my son, Daniel, spent two weeks in Kenya on a school-sponsored medical mission trip. While there, he and six other pre-med students from Grove City College worked alongside a Physician’s assistant and a Pediatrician to staff a clinic for the Masai people out in the bush near a village called Lemeck, […]

Today is of course Father’s Day and this week as I prepared this sermon I compared the way we celebrate this day to the way we celebrate Mother’s Day. My comparative study revealed some very interesting statistics. For example, one thing I discovered is that Father’s Day is not the “cash cow” for the greeting […]

A few years ago headlines around the world reported the tragic news that 118 Russian crewmen had died when a series of explosions caused their submarine, the Kursk, to sink. Well, as the story unfolded it was discovered that twenty-three members of the crew survived for several hours after the explosions in an isolated airtight […]