Joshua 6
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Joshua Fit de’ Battle of Jericho TO HEAR THE ENTIRE SERMON CLICK THE LISTEN BUTTON ABOVE SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: When I was a young boy we had a record album by baritone Frank Boggs, and I nearly wore the grooves off it. My favorite song on the album was “Joshua Fit de’ Battle of Jericho.” I used to sing it at the top of my voice while I was filling the hopper with coal and taking…
Joshua 7
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Sin in the Camp TO HEAR THE ENTIRE SERMON PRESS THE LISTEN BUTTON ABOVE SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Joshua 7 is tied intimately with Joshua 6, and to grasp its significance, one must read it along with chapter 6, the story of the amazing victory God achieved over the Canaanites at Jericho. But in the interest of time this morning we will begin our reading with the last verse of chapter 6: So the Lord was with…
Joshua 8
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith New Beginnings in the Life of Faith SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: Remember the experience of beginning a new school year? Imagine for a minute that is the first day of sixth grade. You walk into the school and you notice the shine on the floor. There’s the strong smell of cleaning supplies used to get last year’s bubblegum out of the water fountain. Pencils have no chew marks, with erasers still big and pink on the end. A new clean…
Joshua 9, 10
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith It’s Never Right to Do Wrong to Do Right SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: We live in a crazy, mixed-up world, in case you hadn’t checked lately. Radical Muslims think nothing of blowing up a barracks and killing and maiming hundreds in order to send a message to the United States to get out of Saudi Arabia. Radical militiamen in Montana and elsewhere feel justified in plotting against federal institutions because their taxes are too high and they…
Joshua 14-21
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith God, the Promise Keeper SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: Pinch hitting behind Mike is an interesting experience, because I’m never quite sure what I am going to get to preach on. I’ve been quite fortunate in this Joshua series, because I’ve gotten some sweet passages to preach from, like Joshua 4 and the account of the stones of remembrance, and Joshua 8 and the second battle at Ai. Mike has gotten the difficult assignments in this book—dealing with…
Joshua 14:6-15
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Caleb: Growing Old Gracefully TO HEAR THE ENTIRE SERMON CLICK THE LISTEN BUTTON ABOVE SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Aging, as you know, is a universal fact. There is no one alive who is not growing older. And while young people often complain that time seems like an eternity, for the rest of us it happens to be picking up speed like a runaway locomotive going downhill. Fortunately, our society is becoming increasingly conscious of the special problems…
Joshua 22
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith How to Start a Church Fight SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: On Tuesday night, I watched the 400 IM swimming finals. Two American swimmers, Tom Dolan and Eric Namesnik, teammates at Michigan State, won the gold and the silver. It was an exciting race. Dolan and Namesnik were neck and neck the whole time. In the end, Tom just beat out Eric by a touch. What a triumph for the American swim team to have the two fastest men…
Joshua 24
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Choose You This Day! SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Life is saturated with choices. I would suppose that in any given day the average human being must make hundreds, if not thousands, of conscious choices. Most of them are undoubtedly inconsequential, but some of them may affect our lives permanently from that moment on. No decision is more momentous than the question of whom we will serve—the Lord God or some other god. For some this may be a…
Joshua 23
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith How to Walk with the Lord Your God SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: I think it was a couple of years ago when I realized for the first time that Billy Graham wasn’t going to be around forever. He has been such a part of the American landscape but also the whole world for almost 50 years, that I must have just assumed that he would always be here. But over the last couple of years Billy has…
Joshua 24:19
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith The Holiness and Jealousy of God SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note to David: A version of this sermon is posted already in “Joshua” but without audio. It is a sermon I did at Dallas Theological Seminary. It is also posted under the series, “Our Great and Awesome God.” I would leave it under “Our Great…God,” but remove it from “Joshua.” Use this one instead, which does have audio. Introduction: According to Genesis 1-3, God created man in His own image and…
Joshua 24:29-33
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith An Epitaph Worth Living For SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I have always been fascinated by epitaphs. For years I have kept a file of my favorite ones, and whenever I get a chance, I like to browse through old graveyards looking for more. Over the years I have found some fascinating epitaphs in such out-of-the-way places as the old ghost town of Hamilton, NE, a tiny cemetery above Cripple Creek, CO, the graveyard at the old church…
Ephesians 1
Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for Freedom in Christ Who Are You? SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note to reader: These sermons on Ephesians are not my typical verse-by-verse exposition. Most were preached in 1990 in a series on “Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for Freedom in Christ.” I used Ephesians as a springboard for this series but referred to many other passages as well. Some of the sermons in the series are stand-alone messages preached at various times and various places. The early sermons from 30-35 years ago are not…