fall festival

fall festival

"Word of God, speak!"

The song “Word of God, speak!” by MercyMe is not one of the chart toppers for this great Christian band. But the song has always reminded me of the power of the Scriptures to change my life. And it reminds me that we are not sub-standard Christians because we cannot see Jesus physically. We are not living on meager rations of food for our soul because we have to depend on…

Doctrine? Who, me?

Hanging around in the background of everything we plan to do in ADM is the conviction that the Holy Spirit needs a certain amount of information about God’s Word embedded in our lives to work the transformation God desires. Classes on doctrine, historic Christianity, or individual books of the Bible are the core of the strategy we have created. Yet many Christians…

Classes-Present & Future

WORSHIP…is the theme for the Fall session “Worship – a way of life!” – exploring the practical and daily experience of worship as seen through the example of the lives of the people of the Bible. What do people like Moses, David and Mary have to say to us about living a life of worship? “Unblemished”- studies in Malachi – this Old Testament prophet became the quality…

This is one of those articles…

Have you ever had an experience where in the midst of it a thought, an idea, or an image hits you and you are left with a sense of, “THAT’S IT!” I had this experience today.  As I was catching up on some blog reading (this newspaper reading for the 21st century) and followed a rabbit trail off of a particular blog. It led me to this article on Leadership…

Sex, Marriage, and Abstinence

There is a new article that just hit the public eye in the most recent Christianity Today. It’s an article that argues for early marriage.  The author, Mark Regnerus spends some time looking at numbers about sex and Christian teens. He makes an insightful argument for why the issue that is before us is not a sex problem but a marriage problem.  Regnerus makes some…