Sermons on Suicide
Exodus 20:13
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Failing to Respect and Protect Human Life SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I remember back in the year 2000 watching a segment of Sixty Minutes, in which Bishop John Spong of the Episcopal Church proceeded to denigrate the Christian faith–scoffing at the Virgin Birth, the resurrection, the authority of Scripture, moral purity, and especially the Ten Commandments. This apostate man of the cloth had the gall to claim to be…
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,…
Matt 27:1-10
SERIES: The Good News, as Reported by Matthew Deadly Remorse Introduction: Centuries ago in Italy, an artist set out to paint a mural of the life of Christ in one of the great cathedrals. When he got to the scene of Jesus at age twelve debating the teachers of the Law in the Temple, he searched for just right person to serve as his model, choosing a handsome young man with a wholesome and intelligent appearance. Years later as the artist approached the final…