Sermons on False Teachers
2 John
Truth and Love: They Go Together Like Hand in Glove SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus PLACE: Beacon Church in Goddard, KS. Introduction: It’s good to be back with you this morning. I gave Pastor Eric a list of possible passages for these two weeks he has asked me to fill in while he and his family are on vacation. Among the list I gave him were what I call the NT Postcards, the one-chapter books of the New Testament, of which there are four—Philemon, 2 and…
2 Peter 2
The Greatest Threat to the Church Is from Within SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Good morning. In forty-eight years of ministry this is the first time I have preached to a camera without an audience. This is not easy. Covid has sure changed the nature of pastoral ministry! While Josh is on study leave, our Pastoral Resident Dominick Wong has organized a 3-week study of the New Testament book of 2 Peter. He did a great job introducing the book last Sunday and sharing from chapter…
1 John 2:18-29
Truth or Consequences Introduction: When I was attending Southern Methodist University one of my philosophy professors, Dr. Robert Jung, an existentialist agnostic, spoke with great conviction one day in class and said, “There are no absolutes.” I knew him pretty well and felt sufficiently secure to raise my hand and ask, “Dr. Jung, are you absolutely sure?” He responded with a rambling treatise on epistemology and a lot of doubletalk which merely clouded the issue. It was evident that the only absolute he was…
1 John 4:1-6
Spiritual Warfare in the Church Introduction: I’d like to set the stage this morning with a story from 2 Kings 6. The prophet Elisha is in Dothan, where he has been regularly receiving information from God about the military movements of the Aramean or Syrian army and passing the information on to the King of Israel. The King of the Arameans suspects a spy among his trusted confidants, but eventually he is informed that Elisha is the culprit; in fact, one of his…