Sermons on Worship
Exodus 20:8-11
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Failing to Work and Rest SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Our series on the Ten Commandments brings us today to the fourth commandment. The fourth commandment may be the riskiest one to preach in the evangelical church; certainly, it is the most controversial. There is actually little disagreement over the other nine. It’s not that everyone keeps them, to be sure, but few evangelicals would argue with the fact that God alone deserves…
What Will We Be Doing in Eternity?
SERIES: Heaven and Hell What Will We Be Doing in Eternity? SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: This is Advent season, and when people come to church the Sunday before Christmas, they generally expect to hear a Christmas sermon. Our current series on heaven and hell has not exactly been seasonal. However, before we are done this morning, I hope you will see there is a connection between today’s message and Advent, but it won’t start out that way. Throughout this series I have tried…
Psalm 22
SERIES: Psalms: Cries of the Heart The Cry of Faith SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: One of the people who went with our Cornerstone Church plant a few years ago was an elder named Paul Koenig. For those of you who don’t know him, Paul is wonderfully honest about himself and very frank about life. He does not mince words about anything. He has a way of saying things that are true, very pointed, and very memorable. One time, I called him to get…
Psalm 99
SERIES: Psalms: The Cry of the Heart The Cry of Worship SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk The Psalms contain the cries of God’s people to their God. As we have seen over the last few weeks, God’s people cry out to God for all sorts of reasons. Injustice prompts us to cry out to God in confusion. Pain causes us to cry out in faith. Sin causes us to cry out in confession. At different times in its history, Israel had leaders who firmly understood…
Exodus 15:1-21
Exodus: Moses, God’s Man for the Hour Genuine Worship SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: The crossing of the Red Sea is certainly one of the great miracles in the Old Testament. Last Lord’s Day Brad helped us gain a better perspective on the amazing deliverance that God achieved for Israel by opening passage through the water and then allowing it to close once again upon the pursuing armies of the Egyptians. I find it instructive that the first thing Moses does after the…
Exodus 19
The Meeting on the Mountain SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Please listen to the Word of the Lord, as found in Exodus 19:1-19: On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai. 2 After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain. 3 Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, “This…
Ezra 8
Accompaniments of Revival Introduction: Last Sunday we noted that there are three essential ingredients to experience revival: a renewed commitment to Scripture, earnest prayer, and confession. I think I would like to change that slightly. Prayer and confession really go together, while the third ingredient is better stated as true repentance. We’ve already seen the importance of the Scriptures in the life and ministry of Ezra, and next Lord’s Day we will examine a powerful passage in chapters 9 & 10 on prayer and…
Romans 10:11-14
How in the World Can God Use Us? Introduction: As an undergraduate in college, I took a lot of math classes like Calculus, Differential Equations and Statistics. One of the great things about most math books is that the authors often publish the answers in the back of the book. On some occasions, I found it helpful to look at the answer and then work backward to learn how to work the problems I was given. Having the end in sight sometimes helped me…
Romans 15:14-16
The State of the Church Introduction: Four years ago today I preached a sermon with an identical title to today’s. I opened with these words: In a few weeks President Bush will be addressing Congress and the Nation with his annual State of the Union message. In it he will undoubtedly stress his accomplishments over the past year, take credit for winning the Gulf War and for helping to end the Cold War, acknowledge some of the problems facing us, suggest a few…
Jude 17-25
How to Survive in the Last Days SCRIPTURE: Jude 17-25 SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus We come today to the end of a month-long study of one of the briefest books in the Bible. But however brief it is, I don’t think any of us would now consider it inconsequential or light-weight. Jude has forced us to examine our own hearts as individuals and to ask hard questions about leadership in the Church. I was particularly touched when one of our lay teachers told…
Acts 2:41-47
The Holy Spirit Builds Strong Bodies Introduction: When I was a kid, I absolutely loved Wonder Bread. It was so soft and white, and it made such excellent dough balls when it was wadded up. And when my mom hesitated to buy it, I made sure she knew that Wonder Bread builds strong bodies twelve ways, a truth I was privy to from watching Gene Autry and Howdy Doody, which only the geezers in our audience will relate to. I can’t recall what any…
Luke 1:26-56
A Mother Without Peer Introduction: Do you know the origin of Mother’s Day? It’s not a biblical holiday, of course, though the honoring of mothers and of motherhood is certainly a biblical idea. Mother’s Day was first celebrated in 1908 in a little church in Grafton, West Virginia. Anna Jarvis wanted to honor her own mother, which she did by declaring the day “Mother’s Day.” Today it is a widely recognized opportunity to express our love and appreciation for our mothers, mothers-in-law, and grandmothers. I…
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