Sermons on Overconfidence
Joshua 7
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Sin in the Camp 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 Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land. But the Israelites were unfaithful…
Joshua 24
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Choose You This Day! SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Life is saturated with choices. I would suppose that in any given day the average human being must make hundreds, if not thousands, of conscious choices. Most of them are undoubtedly inconsequential, but some of them may affect our lives permanently from that moment on. No decision is more momentous than the question of whom we will serve—the Lord God or some other god. For some this may be a…
1 Cor. 10:1-13
The Peril of Overconfidence SCRIPTURE: 1 Cor. 10:1-13 Introduction: Someone has said that if history teaches us anything, it is that history teaches us nothing. In other words, those who fail to learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat its mistakes. In 1 Corinthians 10 the Apostle Paul gives us a major history lesson, with the express purpose of getting us to learn from the past. In chapter 9 he told us that he kept his body in top shape spiritually because…
1 Cor. 10:13
The Trial of Your Faith SCRIPTURE: 1 Cor. 10:13 Introduction: For our special Fifth Sunday Worship experience I want to speak to you briefly on the subject of temptations and trials. They have so much in common that the Greek language uses the exact same word to describe both. One has to determine which is being referred to from the context. Last Lord’s Day we examined one of the great verses of Scripture on temptation in 1 Cor. 10:13: “No temptation has seized…