Sermons on Obedience
Joshua 1:10-18
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Follow the Leader SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: The world is made up of leaders and followers. Most of us, if asked to do so, would probably peg ourselves as either a leader or a follower, based upon our personality or our job status or our function in the Church. The fact of the matter is, however, that all of us are both leaders and followers, depending upon which of our relationships is being evaluated. You may be a…
Joshua 8
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith New Beginnings in the Life of Faith SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: Remember the experience of beginning a new school year? Imagine for a minute that is the first day of sixth grade. You walk into the school and you notice the shine on the floor. There’s the strong smell of cleaning supplies used to get last year’s bubblegum out of the water fountain. Pencils have no chew marks, with erasers still big and pink on the end. A new clean…
Joshua 23
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith How to Walk with the Lord Your God SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: I think it was a couple of years ago when I realized for the first time that Billy Graham wasn’t going to be around forever. He has been such a part of the American landscape but also the whole world for almost 50 years, that I must have just assumed that he would always be here. But over the last couple of years Billy has…
Job 38:11
SERIES: Our Great and Awesome God The Power and Providence of God SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus PLACE: Dallas Theological Seminary DATE: October, 1996 I wish to share with you today an experience that changed my life. It happened three years ago on the 20th of September, 1993. I was returning home one night from a prayer meeting for the victims of the terrible flood St. Louis was experiencing. I was about two miles from my home when a horse that had been spooked jumped over…
Job 38:11
SERIES: The Book of Job This Far and No Farther SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Background for this sermon: In 1993 I was preaching my way through the marvelous book of Job and had just a couple more sermons to go when God decided I needed more than an intellectual understanding of this amazing book. On the 20th of September I was returning home from West County Assembly of God, where I had been attending a prayer meeting for the victims of the…
John 8:31-47
SERIES: The Gospel of John A Word to the Gospel-Hardened SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: There are some terms that have fallen out of the Christian vocabulary over the years, for better or worse. When I was a boy one of those terms was “backslidden.” A backslidden person was one who didn’t come to church as often as he used to or started smoking again or was spotted buying a six-pack out of the liquor store. While the term has pretty much fallen into…
John 14:15-31
SERIES: The Gospel of John Home Alone 3: Send the Holy Spirit SPEAKER: Brad Harper Introduction: In one of the most popular pairs of movies over the past couple of years, “Home Alone” and “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” child actor Macaulay Culkin has captured the national spotlight through his humorous adventures as a boy who is accidentally abandoned by his family and must fend for himself. Culkin’s panicked reaction is not unlike the sentiments of the disciples as they…
Exodus 4:18-6:12
A Long Obedience SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Friedrich Nietzsche was not the kind of philosopher with whom Christians find much in common, but even radical unbelievers sometimes have good things to say. In his book, Beyond Good and Evil he wrote, “The essential thing in heaven and earth is that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.” Eugene H. Peterson borrowed Nietzsche’s phrase for…
1 Kings 1-4
Solomon: “Give Your Servant a Discerning Heart” Introduction: We’re going to begin today with a little quiz. I want you to take a pen or pencil and write something on your worship folder. Suppose I was in a position to give you any three wishes your little heart desired, what would they be? That’s right. Anything you want. Write it down. You don’t have to show it to anyone else–this is just between you and the Lord. Have you got it? Now just set it aside; we’ll come back…
1 Kings 13, 20
The Man of God From Judah: Nothing Trumps a Word from God. Introduction: Every Sunday I announce at the bottom of the outline what the sermon and the text will be for the following Sunday. Last Lord’s Day I noted that today I would be preaching on “The Man of God from Judah” from 1 Kings 13, and the epitaph I listed for this unnamed prophet was this: “He listened to a prophet of the Lord instead of to the Lord.” Well, I’m still…
1 Kings 18:16-46
Elijah: “Do It Again.” Introduction: This morning we come to one of the great battle stories of the Bible–not great in the number of troops involved or in the number of casualties experienced but in the decisiveness of the victory. This battle was between two men. One was a wealthy and powerful monarch with scores of troops and bodyguards, plus chariots and countless weapons, yet he stood morally bankrupt and helpless in the presence of the other. The second man was without wealth, without…
2 Chronicles 34, 35, 2 Kings 22, 23
Josiah: “I Have Found the Book of the Law in the Temple!” Introduction: Have you ever thought about the difference one good leader can make? We come today in our series on the kings and prophets of Israel to Josiah, the last good king of Judah. There were only eight kings out of 20 who could be called “good” in any sense of the word, but Josiah was one of the best. He was a remarkable exception to the ungodliness that characterized Judah during…
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