Sermons from February 2026
2 Timothy 2:1-26
SERIES: Three Keys to Growing Healthy Churches Feeding the Flock SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: As a pastor in one of the dynamic growth areas for the Free Church, I am often asked by people within and outside our denomination, “What is the key to the success you have experienced in church planting and church growth?” They seem to be looking for some logistical secret, technique, or methodology they can copy that will result in automatic growth and multiplication. And, indeed, there are…
Acts 2:42-47
SERIES: Three Keys to Growing Healthy Churches Fostering Fellowship SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I got a phone call Friday from David and Judy Constance, former members of our church who moved to Detroit six months ago. In the course of our conversation, I asked them how things were going. The boys were fine, David’s job was fine, the house was fine, the neighbors were fine, even the weather wasn’t bad. But church was another matter. They said they had attended 13 or 14 churches…
John 8:36; Galatians 5:1
SERIES: Three Keys to Growing Healthy Churches Fanning the Fires of Freedom SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I believe there are three keys to planting and growing healthy churches: feeding, fellowship and freedom. So far in this series we have talked about how important it is to feed the flock and to foster fellowship. Now this morning I want us to talk about the third essential, which is that we must allow God’s people the freedom to grow up in Christ. Freedom is a…
Exodus 19-20
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives God’s Top Ten: The Secret to Life SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus I grew up in conservative churches all my life, and then I attended Bible college and seminary for eight years. However, I was well into my first pastorate here when I realized a rather startling fact: I had never in my entire life heard a sermon on the Ten Commandments! In trying to understand the reason for that strange omission…
Exodus 20:1-3
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Worshiping the Wrong Gods SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I suppose I should start off today with an apology to Dr. Laura Schlessinger for trading on the name of her two best sellers, Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up their Lives, and Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up their Lives. A Free Church pastor friend of mine first borrowed the title for a series he was preaching on the…
Exodus 20:4-6
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Worshiping God in the Wrong Way SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Please turn with me to the Book of Exodus, chapter 20. We are going to read the first six verses: “And God spoke all these words: ‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an…
Exodus 20:7
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Treating God’s Name Carelessly SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: In our series on the Ten Commandments, we have done an introductory message and then spent two weeks on the critical issue of idolatry–worshiping other gods and worshiping the true God by use of images. Both are forbidden. Today we come to the third commandment, as found in Exodus 20:7: “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD…
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…
Exodus 20:12
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Failing to Honor Our Parents SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I read the following social analysis this week: “The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward,…
Exodus 20:13
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Failing to Respect and Protect Human Life SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I remember back in the year 2000 watching a segment of Sixty Minutes, in which Bishop John Spong of the Episcopal Church proceeded to denigrate the Christian faith–scoffing at the Virgin Birth, the resurrection, the authority of Scripture, moral purity, and especially the Ten Commandments. This apostate man of the cloth had the gall to claim to be…
Exodus 20:14
Series: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Sermon: Breaking Covenant Instead of Keeping Covenant Speaker: Phil Thengvall Introduction: Are you someone who can be trusted to keep a promise? It seems simple enough to follow through on a promise to a child to be at their soccer game, to read a book to them, to play catch in the yard after supper. Keeping a promise is a simple form of being faithful to a covenant. We look down on people…
Exodus 20:15
SERIES: Ten Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives Taking What Doesn’t Belong to Us SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: In our journey through the Ten Commandments, we are going to deal with the eighth commandment today. I invite you to turn in your Bibles to Exodus 20:15: “You shall not steal.” We have a term we like to use for people who violate the eighth commandment. We call them “kleptomaniacs”–people who will steal whatever they can get their hands on. Or we…