John 4:27-38
SERIES: The Gospel of John Fields Ripe for Harvest SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Have you ever stopped to think how much of life revolves around food? When you add up the time and money spent on shopping for it, storing it, preparing it, eating and drinking it, cleaning up afterward, or even going out to a restaurant for it, food obviously consumes more of our time than anything other than work and sleep, and more of our money than anything other…
John 4:46-54; 5:1-9; 9:1-7
SERIES: The Gospel of John The Great Physician SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: The healing miracles of Jesus fascinate us, but at the same time they frequently frustrate us. The reason can best be stated this way: Jesus healed all manner of disease and sickness; Jesus is alive in the Church today; Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever; Therefore, we ought to see the same kinds of healing miracles today! But we don’t! Why? Is it because the church has drifted…
John 5:1-18
SERIES: The Gospel of John Do You Want to Get Well? SPEAKER: Brad Harper Introduction: With the opening of chapter five of John’s Gospel, we enter a new phase in the ministry of Jesus. For the next few chapters John will focus on the growing opposition to Jesus and his work by a group of people he simply calls “the Jews.” Now this is not meant to be an ethnic slur, for John himself is a Jew. It is John’s term…
John 5:9-18
SERIES: The Gospel of John Sabotaging the Sabbath SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note: This sermon was preached in Wichita in 1979 in a previous series on John. Introduction: While we have given considerable attention to the healing miracles of Jesus in this series, there is one fact about Jesus’ healings which we have not focused on, and that is the day of the week in which He did most of them. And that’s the subject of our message today. Perhaps you feel that…
John 5:16-30
SERIES: The Gospel of John He’s His Father’s Son SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note to David: I have changed the title of this sermon but not the sermon itself. Introduction: Have you ever heard anyone say of a boy, “My, he’s sure his father’s son, isn’t he?” When someone says that about one of my sons, Eddie or Andy, I always cringe a bit until I find out whether the trait which they are comparing in us is a good one or a…
John 5:31-47
SERIES: The Gospel of John The Witness Stand SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: We are all familiar with a religious cult in our society known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They meet in Kingdom Halls and are well-known for their bold, door-to-door evangelism, which is their primary method of distributing literature from The Watchtower Society. My concern with Jehovah’s Witnesses this morning is not their doctrine, which I have already identified as cultic rather than orthodox; rather my concern is with their…
John 6:1-29
SERIES: The Gospel of John The Way to a Man’s Heart is not Necessarily through His Stomach, or A Mid-Term in Faith SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: We come this morning to one of the best known and best loved stories in the Bible—the feeding of the 5,000. One of my seminary professors, Dr. S. Lewis Johnson, entitled his sermon on John 6, “The Feeding of the 15,000,” and he’s probably right, for Matthew indicates there were 5,000 men, besides women and children. This is the…
John 6:30-71
SERIES: The Gospel of John How to Lose Friends and Offend People SPEAKER: Brad Harper Introduction: Many years ago Dale Carnegie made a classic contribution to American social process with his book How to Win Friends and Influence People. After studying John six this week, I became convinced that if such a book existed in the first century, Jesus had not read it. For if someone were to write a book about the effects of Jesus’ sermon recorded in this chapter, it might be…
John 7:1-52
SERIES: The Gospel of John What Do You Think of Jesus? SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: About six months have passed since Jesus fed the 5,000, walked on water, and then delivered His great discourse on the Bread of Life. It is now the middle of October, just six months before He is to be crucified. For the most part He has stayed away from Jerusalem to avoid a premature confrontation with the religious leadership of the nation. Instead, His primary ministry has…
John 7:53-8:11
SERIES: The Gospel of John Portrait of a Prodigal Daughter SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: “How I wish that there was some wonderful place Called the Land of Beginning Again, Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches And all our poor selfish grief Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door And never put on again.” The poet who wrote those words, Louisa Fletcher, was expressing a forlorn dream, but I believe there is a place called the…
John 8:31-47
SERIES: The Gospel of John A Word to the Gospel-Hardened SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: There are some terms that have fallen out of the Christian vocabulary over the years, for better or worse. When I was a boy one of those terms was “backslidden.” A backslidden person was one who didn’t come to church as often as he used to or started smoking again or was spotted buying a six-pack out of the liquor store. While the term has pretty much fallen into…
John 8:12-30
SERIES: The Gospel of John Light for a Dark World SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I appreciated Alan Groh’s excellent song this morning, entitled “I Am.” In the Gospel of John seven great “I am” statements come from the lips of Jesus, each involving an implicit claim to deity. We have already examined “I am the Bread of Life;” today we come to “I am the Light of the World.” If ever there was a time when this world needed light, it is today. Let’s readJohn 8:12-30: When…