Sermons on Unbelief
John 5:31-47
SERIES: The Gospel of John The Witness Stand SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: We are all familiar with a religious cult in our society known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They meet in Kingdom Halls and are well-known for their bold, door-to-door evangelism, which is their primary method of distributing literature from The Watchtower Society. My concern with Jehovah’s Witnesses this morning is not their doctrine, which I have already identified as cultic rather than orthodox; rather my concern is with their…
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…
Matthew 11:16-30
The Parable of the Brats Introduction: The last half of Matthew 11 is a series of seemingly disconnected discourses by Jesus. But they only seem to be disconnected; they actually are intimately related to one another. I have entitled my message this morning The Parable of the Brats, because that is what the passage opens with, but the parable leads directly into three other brief discourses by Jesus–a denunciation of the cities of Galilee, a praise to His Father for hiding truth to some and…
Hebrews 3:7-4:13
The Tragedy of Unbelief What is the most heinous sin a human being can commit? Is it brutal, premeditated murder? Is it some grossly perverted immoral act? Is it the abuse of an innocent child? Is it the attempted annihilation of an entire race? What is the most heinous sin a human being can commit? Well, I think we can answer that question if we ask and answer another one: What is the only sin that will send a person to Hell, the only one that…