Exodus 20:7
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Treating God’s Name Carelessly SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: In our series on the Ten Commandments, we have done an introductory message and then spent two weeks on the critical issue of idolatry–worshiping other gods and worshiping the true God by use of images. Both are forbidden. Today we come to the third commandment, as found in Exodus 20:7: “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD…
Exodus 20:8-11
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Failing to Work and Rest SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Our series on the Ten Commandments brings us today to the fourth commandment. The fourth commandment may be the riskiest one to preach in the evangelical church; certainly, it is the most controversial. There is actually little disagreement over the other nine. It’s not that everyone keeps them, to be sure, but few evangelicals would argue with the fact that God alone deserves…
Exodus 20:12
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Failing to Honor Our Parents SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I read the following social analysis this week: “The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward,…
Exodus 20:13
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Failing to Respect and Protect Human Life SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I remember back in the year 2000 watching a segment of Sixty Minutes, in which Bishop John Spong of the Episcopal Church proceeded to denigrate the Christian faith–scoffing at the Virgin Birth, the resurrection, the authority of Scripture, moral purity, and especially the Ten Commandments. This apostate man of the cloth had the gall to claim to be…
Exodus 20:14
Series: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Sermon: Breaking Covenant Instead of Keeping Covenant Speaker: Phil Thengvall Introduction: Are you someone who can be trusted to keep a promise? It seems simple enough to follow through on a promise to a child to be at their soccer game, to read a book to them, to play catch in the yard after supper. Keeping a promise is a simple form of being faithful to a covenant. We look down on people…
Exodus 20:15
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Taking What Doesn’t Belong to Us SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: In our journey through the Ten Commandments, we are going to deal with the eighth commandment today. I invite you to turn in your Bibles to Exodus 20:15: “You shall not steal.” We have a term we like to use for people who violate the eighth commandment. We call them “kleptomaniacs”–people who will steal whatever they can get their hands on. Or we…
Exodus 20:16
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Failing to Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: It’s time for a pop quiz. We haven’t had one of those in a long time. If you were going to make a list of the sins you really hate, the ones that really turn your stomach, the sinners you find nearly impossible to forgive, what would your list look like? Not names of people, but…
Exodus 20:17
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places SPEAKER: Dick High SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Note: This sermon was prepared by Pastor Andrus but was delivered by Pastor Dick High because of Mike’s illness that Sunday. Introduction: This summer we have been examining the Ten commandments, and today our focus will be on the last one. But that will not be the end of…
Exodus 19; 20:18-20
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives The God of the Ten Commandments: Our Awesome Friend SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Dostoevsky, the existential literary genius, was absolutely right when he wrote, “Without God, everything is permitted.”[i] If there were no God, there could be no moral absolutes, and therefore we could do anything we wanted. Dostoevsky, of course, was an atheist and what he meant by his statement is that since there is no God, everything is permitted. We, of course, do not accept…
Exodus 33
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives A Heart Not Satisfied SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Have you had a good argument with God lately? Maybe you think the question is impertinent and out of order, but the fact is, many great biblical characters took God on. Some won, some lost. Job lost. Haggai lost. But Moses is one who came out ahead. I believe many of us are far too passive in our relationship with God. We assume that it’s God’s job…
Exodus 20:22-23:33
SERIES: Exodus: Revelation and Redemption The Rest of the Law SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note: This sermon was preached at First Free in Wichita within a series on Exodus. It followed a single sermon by Josh Black on the Ten Commandments and speaks to the place of the Ten within the broad context of the Mosaic Law. Introduction: The Ten Commandments were the subject of our study last week from Exodus 20. Josh made it clear that these timeless and universal principles of moral…
James 4:1-10
SERIES: Great Church Fights Understanding Conflict SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: A father heard a commotion in his yard and looked outside to see his daughter and several playmates in a heated quarrel. When he reprimanded her, his daughter responded, “We’re just playing church!” Unfortunately, that’s not too hard a scenario to believe when you think about all the conflict that plagues the average church. I consider myself extremely blessed by the fact that the two churches I have pastored over the past…