Sermons on Betrayal
2 Samuel 15, 16, 19
SERIES: David: A Person After God’s Heart Letting God Be God When Facing Injustice SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Think back to the last time you were treated unfairly or suffered unjustly. Maybe it was a long time ago; more likely, it happened just this past week. Either way, the memories are undoubtedly painful, because most of us have a very strong sense of fairness. I think the thing I have had the most difficulty teaching my two boys over the years is that…
1 Samuel 21-23
SERIES: Leadership in Hard Times The Wilderness: A Difficult but Wonderful Place SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I have a strange fascination with the wilderness–whether you’re talking about the rainforest of Brazil or the barren mountains of Sinai or the Badlands of South Dakota. I love getting away from the trappings of civilization and enjoying nature as God created it. If I could spend a month anywhere in the world, I would probably choose southern Utah. There are places there where you can drive…
John 13:18-38
SERIES: The Gospel of John And It Was Night SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: The Apostle John was a relatively simply man. A fisherman by trade, he was not well-educated. His writing employs simple grammar, short sentences, and elementary vocabulary. But simple though he was, John was not ignorant. The concepts he conveyed were profound and he knew how to use subtle literary devices to impress upon his reader the pathos of a particular moment. Nowhere is this done more skillfully than in John 13, where…
John 18:1-5
SERIES: The Gospel of John The Man Whose Name Lives in Infamy SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Our study of the Gospel of John brings us today to the 18th chapter. We have completed the heavily theological section of the book and come now to the narrative portion, which covers the events of the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life on earth, including His arrest, His trial, and His crucifixion, as well as His resurrection and His brief post-resurrection ministry. I have decided…
Genesis 37
When Parents Play Favorites We’re going to focus our attention on one of the great heroes of the OT–Joseph. The philosopher Hegel once observed that if history teaches us anything it is that history teaches us nothing. His point was that we so often fail to learn from the past. But the fact is God put a lot of it in his Word. We naturally gravitate more to the doctrinal, the prophetic, and the practical portions of Scripture, but we also need to pay…