Sermons on Betrayal
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…