Sermons on Arbitration
Acts 15:36-41; Phil. 4:2-3
SERIES: Great Church Fights When Personality and Perspective Clash SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Is there anyone here this morning who likes everyone you work with, everyone at school, and everyone in your neighborhood? I didn’t think so. If anyone did raise his hand, I would be inclined to ask, “Do you lie about other things, too?” I don’t think it’s possible to like everybody. Some people have personalities so different from ours that it takes a yeoman’s effort just to be pleasant to them,…
James 3:13-18
SERIES: Great Church Fights Are We Willing to Become a Peacemaking Church? SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: For the past two and a half months we have been studying conflict and peacemaking here at First Free. We have examined negative conflicts, positive conflicts, and neutral conflicts. We have carefully studied more than a half dozen conflicts described in the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. We have gleaned all the principles we could find about the sources of conflict, the kinds of conflict, and,…
1 Cor. 6:1‑8
Suits that Don’t Fit Introduction: What is justice, true justice? We don’t see a lot of it in our society, do we? I have a saying I often laid on my sons as they were growing up, but teenagers aren’t the only ones who need to hear it: “Life isn’t fair.” And the fact that we have one of the most advanced judicial systems in the world today doesn’t change that. I wonder how many people in the audience here this morning have been involved in a lawsuit…