Sermons from April 2025
Joshua 1:1-9
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Filling Big Shoes SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: How many times have you heard someone say, or perhaps even said yourself, “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fill his or her shoes?” I think a lot of people have struggled with that—some more than others. How would you like to have been the next Prime Minister of Great Britain after Winston Churchill, or the backup soprano to Maria Callas, or the successor to John Wooden as…
Joshua 1:10-18
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Follow the Leader SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: The world is made up of leaders and followers. Most of us, if asked to do so, would probably peg ourselves as either a leader or a follower, based upon our personality or our job status or our function in the Church. The fact of the matter is, however, that all of us are both leaders and followers, depending upon which of our relationships is being evaluated. You may be a…
Joshua 2
SERIES: Joshua: Victory Through Faith God Specializes in Zeros SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: When one of my esteemed colleagues saw my sermon title today, he asked, “Since when are you into autobiographical sermons?” Well, in a sense, a very real sense, today’s message is autobiographical, but then it’s also biographical of every human being who has been sought out and saved by the grace of God. You see, when we think of zeros, of real losers, we think of people like…
Joshua 3
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Got Any Rivers You Think Are Uncrossable? SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Please turn with me to Joshua, chapter 3: “Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over. After three days the officers went throughout the camp, giving orders to the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, who are…
Joshua 4
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Find Ways to NOT Forget SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk DATE: May 26, 1996 Introduction: On my first trip to Moscow, a pastor from Minnesota and I volunteered to meet some people at the Moscow train station and then take the underground Metro to the Moscow Bible Church for Sunday morning services. Rick Thompson, the pastor at Moscow Bible Church, wrote out detailed instructions on how to get to the church from the train station. It had all the…
Joshua 5
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Prerequisites for Special Service SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: What’s the difference between great athletes and mediocre athletes? More often than not, it’s not native physical ability, but rather desire, preparation and training. What’s the difference between a great salesman and an ordinary salesperson who just makes a living? Usually, it’s not a matter of personality or intelligence or even a superior product, but rather desire and preparation—a willingness to learn the product and study the market. What’s the difference…
Joshua 6
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Joshua Fit de’ Battle of Jericho SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: When I was a young boy we had a record album by baritone Frank Boggs, and I nearly wore the grooves off it. My favorite song on the album was “Joshua Fit de’ Battle of Jericho.” I used to sing it at the top of my voice while I was filling the hopper with coal and taking the clinkers out of the furnace. That really dates me, doesn’t…
Joshua 7
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Sin in the Camp SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Joshua 7 is tied intimately with Joshua 6, and to grasp its significance, one must read it along with chapter 6, the story of the amazing victory God achieved over the Canaanites at Jericho. But in the interest of time this morning we will begin our reading with the last verse of chapter 6: So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land. But the Israelites were unfaithful…
Joshua 8
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith New Beginnings in the Life of Faith SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: Remember the experience of beginning a new school year? Imagine for a minute that is the first day of sixth grade. You walk into the school and you notice the shine on the floor. There’s the strong smell of cleaning supplies used to get last year’s bubblegum out of the water fountain. Pencils have no chew marks, with erasers still big and pink on the end. A new clean…
Joshua 9, 10
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith It’s Never Right to Do Wrong to Do Right SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: We live in a crazy, mixed-up world, in case you hadn’t checked lately. Radical Muslims think nothing of blowing up a barracks and killing and maiming hundreds in order to send a message to the United States to get out of Saudi Arabia. Radical militiamen in Montana and elsewhere feel justified in plotting against federal institutions because their taxes are too high and they…
Joshua 14-21
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith God, the Promise Keeper SPEAKER: Paul T. Stolwyk Introduction: Pinch hitting behind Mike is an interesting experience, because I’m never quite sure what I am going to get to preach on. I’ve been quite fortunate in this Joshua series, because I’ve gotten some sweet passages to preach from, like Joshua 4 and the account of the stones of remembrance, and Joshua 8 and the second battle at Ai. Mike has gotten the difficult assignments in this book—dealing with…
Joshua 14:6-15
SERIES: Joshua: Victory through Faith Caleb: Growing Old Gracefully SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Aging, as you know, is a universal fact. There is no one alive who is not growing older. And while young people often complain that time seems like an eternity, for the rest of us it happens to be picking up speed like a runaway locomotive going downhill. Fortunately, our society is becoming increasingly conscious of the special problems and needs of the aged, and gerontology has become a…
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