Sermons on Giving
Philippians 4:10-23
SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell Parting Graces SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: All of us have heard the phrase “parting shots.” It’s used to describe last-minute comments, usually nasty ones, when one is ending a phone conversation or leaving a meeting or closing a letter. Parting shots are effective principally because the other person doesn’t have the chance to respond; all he can do is to stew about what was said. Well, the Apostle Paul offers some last-minute comments to…
Matthew 6:19-24
A Sermon for the Ages: The Treasure Principle Introduction: In the Wichita Eagle ten days ago, there was an article about the 946 billionaires in the world today, including 6 Kansans, several of whom are from Wichita. Do you have any idea how much money a billion dollars is? If you laid dollar bills end to end it would take nearly a million of them to reach from here to Emporia. But a billion of them would go around the world 4 times! That is serious…
Luke 16:1-9
Money–Godly Ways of Giving It: A Bad Man’s Good Example Every one of us in this room this morning has a set of priorities, a ranking, if you will, of those things that we consider the most important in the world. I’m sure if asked to put these priorities on paper, most of us would probably list God first, family second, then work, church, friends, and country in some order, followed by eating, golf, TV, sleeping, and other common pursuits. But I am…
James 5:1-6
A Word to the Wealthy “Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.” Surely James isn’t speaking to us – we who have eaten at least three meals in the last 24 hours, who enjoyed…