Sermons on Forgiveness
Exodus 20:15
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Taking What Doesn’t Belong to Us SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: In our journey through the Ten Commandments, we are going to deal with the eighth commandment today. I invite you to turn in your Bibles to Exodus 20:15: “You shall not steal.” We have a term we like to use for people who violate the eighth commandment. We call them “kleptomaniacs”–people who will steal whatever they can get their hands on. Or we…
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,…
The Book of Micah
SERIES: Major Profit from Minor Prophets He Has Shown You SPEAKER: Paul Stolwyk Note: This series, done in the summer of 1999, involved one sermon each on the Twelve Minor Prophets. Obviously, since these books are of varying lengths, from one chapter to fourteen chapters, these sermons are focused on the key message of each prophet, rather than a detailed examination of their words. This sermon was given by Paul Stolwyk, Associate Pastor at First Free in St. Louis. Introduction: Turn to the index…
Joshua 7
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Sin in the Camp TO HEAR THE ENTIRE SERMON PRESS THE LISTEN BUTTON ABOVE SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Joshua 7 is tied intimately with Joshua 6, and to grasp its significance, one must read it along with chapter 6, the story of the amazing victory God achieved over the Canaanites at Jericho. But in the interest of time this morning we will begin our reading with the last verse of chapter 6: So the Lord was with…
Ephesians 4:30-32
Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for Freedom in Christ Learning to Forgive SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note to reader: These sermons on Ephesians are not my typical verse-by-verse exposition. Most were preached in 1990 in a series on “Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for Freedom in Christ.” I used Ephesians as a springboard for this series but referred to many other passages as well. Some of the sermons in the series are stand-alone messages preached at various times and various places. The early sermons from 30-35 years ago are not…
Ephesians 4:32, Matthew 18:21-35
Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for Freedom in Christ Forgiving the Hard to Forgive SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note to reader: These sermons on Ephesians are not my typical verse-by-verse exposition. Most were preached in 1990 in a series on “Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for Freedom in Christ.” I used Ephesians as a springboard for this series but referred to many other passages as well. Some of the sermons in the series are stand-alone messages preached at various times and various places. The early sermons from 30-35 years…
2 Samuel 11
SERIES: David: A Person After God’s Heart Cancer in the Body SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Friends, we come today to one of the saddest stories in the whole Bible–the story of David and Bathsheba. It is sad because it reminds us of the fact that human beings, no matter how gifted or godly or successful, will always disappoint us eventually. We dare not put our ultimate faith in people. It’s sad, too, because it reminds us of our own failures in life–acts…
2 Samuel 12ff, Galatians 6:7-8
SERIES: David: A Person After God’s Heart Sin Will Take You Further Than You Want to Go SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: More than fifteen years ago Jan and I attended the Praise Gathering in Indianapolis that was sponsored for many years by the Gaithers. On the last day I was tired after the third concert and I almost went back to my hotel room. The Cathedral Quartet was singing, and I slipped into the back row. They did a song that someone handed…
2 Samuel 13-18
SERIES: David: A Person After God’s Heart A Neglectful Father and a Rebellious Son: Recipe for Disaster SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Absalom is a person it is easy to dislike. He murdered his brother, betrayed his father, and committed adultery in the sight of all Israel. But I believe as we study his life in a little more detail, it is more appropriate to pity him than hate him, for the circumstances of his childhood were less than ideal. No one, of course,…
Job 2:11-3:26
SERIES: The Book of Job How to Comfort a Broken Heart SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Most people are not known for their compassion and caring these days. In Stockholm Sweden last year a woman sat for two months on her balcony from about the first of January until the first of March before a neighbor discovered she was dead. The woman was sitting in a chair, dressed in a coat and hat. Her forehead was leaning against the railing. Margaretha Marsellas, a neighbor, realized something…
Psalm 32
SERIES: Psalms, Cries of the Heart The Cry of the Guilty Conscience SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: We live in the “me” generation, the day of the Boomers, the Busters, and the GenXers. Our age has seen the acceptance of such brilliant farsighted wisdom as, “If it feels good, do it.” And we’re known for such profound musical themes as, “I did it my way.” Not surprisingly, guilt receives a lot of bad press in our society. Current popular psychology gives one the impression…
2 Timothy 4:6-18
SERIES: 2 Timothy Final Instructions for Paul’s Progeny SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note: This sermon is both a conclusion to a series on the Book of Acts and an exposition of 2 Timothy 4:6-18. Introduction: I’ve enjoyed our study of Acts so much that this week I had withdrawal pains. So, I decided to preach a postscript to the Book today. We noted last Lord’s Day that Acts is an unfinished book and intentionally so, because every generation of the church has a chapter to…