Sermons by Mark Adams

This past Monday-Memorial Day-our family drove over to Bowie to spend the day with Sue’s parents and siblings and their children. We do this every year. In fact, it’s kind of become a Memorial Day tradition. We all meet at Sue’s sister’s house. Her brother, Lewis, spends the morning grilling several kinds of meat. Everyone […]

One of my favorite true stories centers around a chapter from the life of the colorful nineteenth century violinist, Nicolo Paginini. It all happened toward the end of one Paganini’s concerts. He was accompanied by a full orchestra and was playing a very difficult piece of music before a packed house. Suddenly in the middle […]

I don’t know about you but I’m a fan of all those satirical “WHY” questions that tend to float around in the Internet. Here’s some examples of what I’m talking about: WHY do they call apartments-“apartments” when they are so close to each other? Shouldn’t they be called “Togetherments?” WHY do we park in driveways […]

Today, in some parts of the country it’s customary to spend time after lunch decorating the grave of your deceased mother. I remember during my years in college down in Alabama-this was a big deal-the whole family went to church and then to lunch and then out to the grave to place fresh flowers. If […]

A few weeks ago 28 of us spent two days in Richmond attending a Building A Contagious Church conference. This conference was sponsored by the Willow Creek Association-and I must say-as someone who considers himself an “expert” on church conferences-it was excellent. I refer to myself as an expert because I’ve attended tons of church […]

On Halloween night back in 1936, several men and women sat in a candle-lit room at a round table holding hands. They were participating in a seance. They sat there like that waiting for a message from “the other side.” It was the same message that they had gathered in hopes of hearing every Halloween […]

If you’re visiting for the first time this morning, let me get you up to speed. We’re in the midst of a series of sermons dealing with the questions that have been raised by Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion. One thing I pointed out when we began this series is that everyone is talking about […]

As most of you know, earlier this year I flew to Chicago to attend a PRE-SCREENING of The Passion. Jim Main went with me-and I’m sure he’d agree it was a whirlwind of a day. We left at about 5AM and headed down to National Airport, caught a plane to Chicago, rented a car, drove […]

This morning we are beginning a sermon series based on Mel Gibson’s new film, The Passion of the Christ, and as I’m sure you know, EVERYONE is talking about this film-Christian, and non-Christian, Democrat, Republican, the religious and the non-religious-everyone seems to be ENTHRALLED by it. I mean, it’s on all the magazine covers. I’ve […]

As any parent knows, children love to play by pretending to be something they’re not. In fact, most toys are designed to help kids pretend in some way. My two girls had a toy kitchen and pots and pans so they could pretend to cook like their mother. We even had a huge plastic bin […]