This week Sue and I traveled to New Albany, Indiana to attend the funeral of a dear friend. A 42-year-young man named Jerry Walker, who was a teenager in the youth group of my seminary church 27 years ago, had a massive heart attack and died, leaving a wife and three children behind. Jerry was […]
Sermons
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A Farewell to Arms
| Series: Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: May 14, 2006 | Scripture Reference: Joshua 23:1-6; Joshua 24:2-15 |
Caleb-That Magnificent Old Man
| Series: Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: May 7, 2006 | Scripture Reference: Joshua 14:6-12 |
A week or so ago Sue and I watched a four-minute segment on Good Morning America in which Robin Roberts “aged” forty years. Of course, she didn’t really grow old in that amount of time. The clip we saw had to do with an experiment in aging in which she did a great deal to […]
Examples of Servanthood
| Series: Deacon Ordination | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: April 30, 2006 | Scripture Reference: John 13:14-15 |
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 […]
The Day That Has Changed All Others
| Series: Holy Week | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: April 16, 2006 | Scripture Reference: I Corinthians 15:12-22 |
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 […]
A Day of Surprises
| Series: Holy Week | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: April 9, 2006 | Scripture Reference: Luke 23: 26-49 |
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 […]
The Longest Day–Do Miracles Really Happen?
| Series: Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: March 26, 2006 | Scripture Reference: Joshua 10:1-15 |
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 […]
What Does It Take to Make a Church Great?
| Series: Vision Sunday | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: March 19, 2006 | Scripture Reference: Isaiah 58:11, Jeremiah 29:11 |
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 […]
The Danger of Walking by Sight
| Series: Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: March 12, 2006 | Scripture Reference: Joshua 9:1-27 |
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 […]
How Much Is Your Sin Going to Cost Me?
| Series: Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: March 5, 2006 | Scripture Reference: Joshua 6:17a, 18-19; 7:1-12 |
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 […]
Your Walls Can Come Down
| Series: Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life | Preacher: Mark Adams | Date: February 26, 2006 | Scripture Reference: Joshua 6:1-27 |
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 […]