Sermons from 2024 (Page 2)
Isaiah 53
Jesus, The Suffering Servant SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note: This sermon was one of my last five sermons as pastor of First Free, St. Louis. Introduction: I have struggled a lot with what I should preach in my final five Sundays with you, concluding on February 1. Obviously, I cannot complete the journey through Matthew that we started a little over a year ago and which we interrupted at chapter 12 with the recent series on Marks of a Healthy Church. There’s not enough…
Isaiah 7, 9, 11, 61
The Advents of Messiah SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Over the past three months we have considered many of the narrative portions of Isaiah, plus some didactic passages, and even a parable from the pen of this great OT man of God. However, we have done virtually nothing with the prophetic portions of the book. And since most of the book was predictive prophecy when it was written, and much of it is still future today, it is important for us to rectify this…
Isaiah–The Coming Kingdom of God Part 1
The Coming Kingdom, Part 1 SCRIPTURE: Isaiah, various SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note: This is the first sermon of a two-part series on the Kingdom of God, which is a topic broached throughout Isaiah and other prophetic books. Introduction: We are within a week of winding down an abbreviated exposition of the Book of Isaiah. What started out to be a year-long excursion through this monumental Old Testament treatise has turned out instead to be of less than four months’ duration (due to my…
Isaiah–The Coming Kingdom, Part 2
The Coming Kingdom, Part 2 SCRIPTURE: Isaiah, various SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note: This is the second sermon of a two-part series on the Kingdom of God, which is a topic broached throughout Isaiah and other prophetic books. Introduction: Today I want to conclude a two-part message on the Coming Millennial Kingdom of Christ. The first thing we noted last Sunday is that the term “Kingdom” can be used in two very legitimate senses. We can speak of the Kingdom as the sovereign rule of…
Isaiah 40
SERIES: Our Great and Awesome God The Greatness and Smallness of God SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus PLACE: Dallas Theological Seminary DATE: October, 1996 There is no audio available from Mike’s sermon in Dallas. I have attached a sermon on the same scripture preached in Wichita just after Christmas in 2021. Thank you, Dr. Gangel, for that kind introduction. This is an honor I never expected to receive. Preaching at Dallas Seminary is like singing at the Met, playing tennis at Wimbledon, or skiing at Vail. I…
Joshua 24:19
SERIES: Our Great and Awesome God The Holiness and Jealousy of God SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus PLACE: Dallas Theological Seminary DATE: October, 1996 According to Genesis 1-3 God created man in His own image and likeness. According to twentieth century theology, however, it seems that man has created God in his image. The God of many people today is a God concocted from those characteristics man admires most. Thus one hears a great deal about God as a God of love, mercy, compassion, benevolence, grace, forgiveness, patience, and…
Job 38:11
SERIES: Our Great and Awesome God The Power and Providence of God SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus PLACE: Dallas Theological Seminary DATE: October, 1996 I wish to share with you today an experience that changed my life. It happened three years ago on the 20th of September, 1993. I was returning home one night from a prayer meeting for the victims of the terrible flood St. Louis was experiencing. I was about two miles from my home when a horse that had been spooked jumped over…
Philippians 1:1-11
SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell A Joyful Servant of Christ SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: For a number of months now I have been using a New International Version called The Student Bible. I have enjoyed the pithy notes and comments by Phil Yancey and Tim Stafford, the editors; they are quite different from the notes found in most study Bibles. I have borrowed their title for Philippians as the title for this summer series: “Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell.” I like…
Philippians 1:12-18
SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell A Christian Perspective on Trouble and Troublemakers SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: In our new series on Philippians entitled, “Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell,” we come today to Philippians 1:12-18 and the subject of “A Christian Perspective on Trouble and Troublemakers.” No doubt some of you will recall that only six weeks ago I preached a message from 1 Samuel on trouble. In that sermon we indicated that if ever a person deserved…
Philippians 1:20-26
SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell The Christian Perspective on Life and Death SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Today is not only Father’s Day. It is also Juneteenth. How many of you have heard of Juneteenth? Not too many apparently. I know one thing about those who didn’t raise their hands—you’ve never lived in Texas. Juneteenth is what African Americans in the Deep South, particularly Texas, call June the 19th. That is the day Union Troops arrived in Galveston in 1865, officially freeing Texas’ black…
Philippians 2:1-11
SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell The Great Exchange SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: A number of years ago the Chicago Daily News reported an unusual incident. It happened in the comfortable first-class compartment of a crowded London-bound train when a tall young man rose from his seat and pushed his way into the corridor and through the door into the next compartment. There he spoke to an obviously weary woman whom he had seen standing and swaying to the motion…
Philippians 2:1-11
SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell The Great Exchange Applied SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Wasn’t it Charlie Brown who said, “I love mankind. It’s people I can’t stand”? I think so. He put his finger on a problem for a lot of us, didn’t he? There are some other versions of his profound insight that we might want to consider: “I love the family; it’s my wife and kids I can’t stand.” “I love the Church; it’s the pastor, the elders and the other…