Sermons on Intercession
Exodus 15:22-27
The Desert Experience SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: We lived for nearly ten years in Wichita, Kansas. During that decade we made perhaps two dozen trips across western Kansas and through eastern Colorado to the Rocky Mountains. We either took highway 54 through Pratt, Dodge City, Garden City (a place seriously misnamed), Lamar, and Rocky Ford, or we drove north to Salina to pick up I-70 and traveled through Russell, Hays, Oakley, Colby, Goodland (another serious misnomer), and Limon. There’s not a lot to…
Hebrews 7:1-28a
From Pablum to Porterhouse Forty years ago I heard Howie Hendricks preach a sermon entitled, From Pablum to Porterhouse. I don’t remember the sermon or even the text but I never forgot the title. I decided it fit my Scripture passage today perfectly, so I borrowed it. Pablum is baby food. Porterhouse is steak. Baby food is easy to digest and therefore appropriate for babies. Steak takes a lot more effort, but it’s so much more enjoyable and nutritious for those who can handle it. For two…
Hebrews 13:7-25
Many years ago Allen Funt took his Candid Camera television show to an elite prep school out East, posing as a vocational guidance counselor. Most of the students in this school anticipated being college presidents, bank presidents, or famous corporate lawyers. The producer called the young men in one by one to give them the results of the vocational test they had taken, secretly filming their reactions. A very fine young senior came in, veritably trembling with anticipation of the result of…