Sermons on Conviction
Joshua 1:1-9
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Filling Big Shoes SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: How many times have you heard someone say, or perhaps even said yourself, “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fill his or her shoes?” I think a lot of people have struggled with that—some more than others. How would you like to have been the next Prime Minister of Great Britain after Winston Churchill, or the backup soprano to Maria Callas, or the successor to John Wooden as…
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…
1 Cor. 1:10-17
Contentious Christians Introduction: The old proverb says, “When the cat’s away, the mice will play.” The meaning of that proverb is, of course, that when people find themselves without proper supervision, they often conduct themselves without proper decorum. This is exactly what was happening in the church at Corinth. Paul had founded the Church there while on his second missionary journey, and he had stayed approximately 18 months. But other cities needed churches too, so he left the core of believers at Corinth in the…