Sermons on Thankfulness

Sermons on Thankfulness

Colossians 1:1-14

Celebrating the Church SCRIPTURE:  Colossians 1:1-14 SPEAKER:  Michael P. Andrus Introduction:   We begin a new series today on the brief, but powerful, New Testament book called “Colossians.”  This letter was written centuries ago to a small church being bombarded by philosophies and practices that were incompatible with the Christian faith.  These philosophies are surprisingly similar to the New Age ideas and a New Morality being touted in our own culture, so much so that one can legitimately call New Age thought “ancient heresy,” and the…

Colossians 2:6-10

Lordship Living SCRIPTURE: Colossians 2:6-10 SPEAKER:  Michael P. Andrus Introduction:   In 1988 Dr. John MacArthur, evangelical pastor of a mega-church in southern California, wrote a book entitled The Gospel According to Jesus.  In this extremely provocative treatise MacArthur argues that many fundamentalists and evangelicals have twisted the Good News of salvation by faith into an easy-believism.  They have taken salvation too lightly by ignoring the warnings of Jesus that the cost of discipleship is high, the way is narrow so that few find it, and…