In the 1950’s, a professor at Johns Hopkins University named Curt Richter conducted a series of experiments—and like many researchers he used rats as his test subjects. First, Richter took a dozen DOMESTICATED rats, put them into huge jars of water—and basically watched them drown. I know this sounds cruel—but he was trying to discover […]
Sermon Series:Connecting With the Real God
The Real God is Faithful
| Series: Connecting With the Real God | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: October 21, 2018 | Scripture Reference: Lamentations 3:19-23 |
The Real God is Just
| Series: Connecting With the Real God | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: October 8, 2018 | Scripture Reference: Psalm 73 |
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. 4 – They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong. […]
The REAL God is Wise
| Series: Connecting With the Real God | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: September 30, 2018 | Scripture Reference: Various |
As you know my mom went to be with the Lord in July—and for the past couple months my siblings and I have been going through her house to get it ready to sell. If you’ve buried a parent then you know what it’s like to go through all the piles of pictures. Those stacks […]
The REAL God is Holy
| Series: Connecting With the Real God | Preacher: Kevin Freeman | Date: September 23, 2018 | Scripture Reference: Isaiah 6:1-7 |
An Alien Environment Today we explore the holiness of God and how it relates to us. For many of us we approach holiness the way we approach a big, tangled ball of yarn. We’d like to unravel it and get the knots out, but it’s a lot easier to simply cut it out and move […]
The Real God is Sovereign
| Series: Connecting With the Real God | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: September 16, 2018 | Scripture Reference: Various |
Gerald Gardner was a TV writer, best known for writing the scripts for two of my favorite TV shows when I was growing up—The Monkees and Get Smart. In 1962, Gardner got the idea of taking news photos of U.S. Presidents and adding humorous dialog in the form of speech bubbles that supposedly showed what they were saying […]
The Real God is GOOD!
| Series: Connecting With the Real God | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: September 9, 2018 | Scripture Reference: Various |
I want us to begin this morning by talking about produce goodness. And let’s start with watermelons. How do you know if a WATERMELON is good? Well, first you pick it up. If it’s good—if it’s ripe—it should feel heavy for its size. You may have to compare a few of the same size—but the […]
Seeking God
| Series: Connecting With the Real God | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: September 2, 2018 | Scripture Reference: Various |
We just had a great vacation. After a few days spent getting work done at my mom’s house, Sue and I spent a week at one of our favorite places: Ocean Isle Beach—with our children and grand-children. As you can see in this picture, we had an INCREDIBLE time. Our daily schedule was pretty much […]