Dan Sullivan the Biblescribbler: Recent Episodes
Dan Sullivan
This is my sermon on the first few kings after King Solomon died. Of course, you get a little communion devotional in this one before-hand.
As Jeroboam and Rehoboam figure out how they are going to be kings, they soon discover that they have to share a split kingdom. Ten tribes in the north, ruled by Jeroboam, continue on the trajectory set up by Solomon and his 700+ pagan temples.
With Solomon, the 'wisest' king of Israel out of the way, the stage is set for David's dynasty to live on...sort of. If only these guys could keep to the Lord's ways.
In this sermon, we finish off Solomon. It's pretty horrible how it ended for him, and I don't think we draw enough attention to it.
We can't talk about Solomon and the reign of kings without spending some time on Solomon's temple. There is a lot of cool stuff in here.
This is my sermon about how the Holy Spirit shows up in the Old Testament and what that means for the New Testament.
This is my sermon on Jesus' last words after He rose from the dead. It's the great commission!
Jesus' number one task in His life was forgiveness. Here's how it all happened and what that means for all of us.
This is my sermon about Palm Sunday and some of the wild prophecies that Jesus might have fullfilled from back in 586 BC.
This is my sermon on Jesus healing the servant of the Centurion, an 'official,' and a couple blind guys. I also talk about how these give us insight into how to pray and what Jesus does with us when we pray.
After Jesus talked to Nicodemus and the Pharisees, He went into Samaria to talk to the near-Gentiles.
This is my sermon about the Pharisees. I'm going through all of the people that Jesus met and interacted with. It's easy to think of them as the bad guys of the Bible, but that is way to simple.
This is my sermon on Joseph and Mary for Advent, week 2. This is more a set up of what might have been on their mind when it was revealed to them that Mary was going to give birth to the Messiah.
This is my sermon on some of the key judges mentioned in the book of Judges. I didn't want to give a whole Sunday to Samson.
Here is my sermon on John 19. What is unusual about this is that usually I would preach on the passion and crucifixion on Easter, but since I'm doing expository preaching chapter by chapter through John, we have Easter in February!Pilate, Jesus, the Jewish leaders of the day, I talk about a lot of things in here. Enjoy, and share any feedback or comments on your own blog or Facebook.
This is it! This is my last sermon on this whole long series on King David. He finally dies and Solomon ties up all of the loose ends he asked him to tend to.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 14 and Absalom's rise to power. I also talk about how the sin against Uriah and Bathsheba became such a turning point in the entire kingdom of Israel.
I'm wrapping up our summer in 1 and 2 Samuel by finishing off King David all of the way. This sermon is from 1 Kings chapter 1 where David is finishing up things left undone and declaring his successor.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 24, the end of the book of Samuel! It's a great way to show that the temple and God's kingdom is all established on God's mercy.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 22, where David sings a Psalm that also shows up as Psalm 18.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 21, some of the wrap-up at the end of the life of King David.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 11, where we get started with David and Bathsheba. I also talk a little bit about some bible study techniques.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 8 and 9, where there is a bloodbath and then a lot of mercy.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 7 which also fell on Palm Sunday and fit with the holiday.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 5, which also includes some chunks from ch 23 because of the mighty men.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel Chapter 4. A bunch of people are trying to help David become king, but it's not by God's ways.
This is my sermon on 2 Samuel 2. David rises to power as the king over Judah, but not yet the King of Israel.
Here we go! It's the first installment of my sermons through 2 Samuel. I give an intro to what all happened just before and then 2 Samuel 1.
I don't usually include communion, but I did this week. The first 7 minutes are communion then we get to finish Hebrews with chapter 13.
I got to give a little talk at a Valentine's fund raising dinner. I covered all kinds of cool stuff about why we are created from Genesis to 1 Thessalonians!
This is my sermon on the first half of the book of Hebrews. What you can't see in the recording is the 25 lb dumbell I hold for a bit at the start of the sermon.
This is my sermon on Hebrews 9. If you believe in Jesus, you have the Holy Spirit and you are even more holy than the temple!
Here is my sermon on Hebrews 6, where I explain how important it is that Jesus came to be a person just like all of us.
This is my sermon on the second half of 2 Corinthians Chapter 1. There is a lot of good stuff in here.
This is the conclusion of the Book of Acts! Chapter 28 is as full of action as the rest of the book.
This is my sermon on Acts 24 - 26. I skipped so much because some of this section is kind of repetitive and I wanted to cover it all together. Now Paul is fully arrested and is on his way to Rome.
This is my sermon on Acts 22-23 where Paul gets arrested, speaks to the crowds, then gets really really arrested.
This is my talk about working through religious issues using notecards. It was a casual talk at the quarterly Evansville West Side Pastors' luncheon, so you'll hear a lot of laughs.
This is my sermon on Acts 20. All kinds of havoc goes down in Ephesus when the increasing spread of the Gospel threatens the sale of silver idols.
This is my sermon on Acts 19, one of my favorite sections of Acts because it talks about all of the events in Ephesus, the start of Paul's favorite church.
This is my sermon on Acts 18. This is where Paul begins and ends his ministry in Corinth.
This is the final sermon in my series on the questions in the New City Catechism. It also happens to be on Easter Sunday, when we answer the question "Where is Jesus now?" It was a good one.
This is my 6th sermon on the New City Catechism questions. This is about questions 42-48 that I covered on Palm Sunday.
This new section of the New City Catechism sermons covers The Spirit, Restoration, and Growing in Grace.
This is my sermon on the next section of the New City Catechism. Most of this is preaching about the Hell some of us have been saved from. The scripture covered is mostly Matthew 25.
We are going through http://newcitycatechism.com/ for Lent this year. This section talks about Who created us and why. God loves us so much
This is my sermon on Acts 16 when Paul and Silas get thrown in prison and Timothy gets circumcised in his 30s. Yeah, rough times, but they sing hymns and worship God through all of it.
This is my sermon on the second half of Galatians 5, where I talk about the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit.
This is my sermon on the first half of Galatians 5. We are saved by grace! No works get us any credit with God. I elaborate more in the sermon.
This is my sermon on Galatians 3, where Paul gets more heated than ever that we are saved by faith and not by works of the law!
This is my sermon on Acts 15, the turning point of the book of Acts from the Jewish people and out to the Gentile world.
Here is my opening advent devotion for the 4th Sunday of Advent. It's pretty cool with some new things I learned about how the first Christmas happened and how God works through our culture and our limited understanding.
This is my sermon on the second half of Acts 14, where Paul and Barnabas travel around Turkey, known at the time as Pisidia or Galatia.
This is my sermon on the second half of Acts 13, the further adventures of Paul and Barnabas.
This is my sermon on the first half of Acts 13, when the first ever Christian missionary trip was invented.
This is my sermon on Acts 2:42 to the end of 2. This is about Christian Community which is one of my favorite things. This is also where we continue the pattern of Unity, Prayer, and then Power. That happens over and over in Actsw
This is my sermon on Acts 6-8, where we meet Stephen and see some of the great stuff he does.
This is my sermon on Acts 5. The early church is growing fast, but they aren't quite doing the Judea, Samaritan, and ends of the Earth thing that Jesus told them they'd do.
This is my sermon on the day of Pentecost, in September. It's the book of Acts, and Acts 2 was a big deal. The word of God went out to every nation in every one of their native languages.
This is my sermon on the end of Acts 3 and as far as Peter and John getting arrested in Acts 4.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 31, the final entry to my saga through the book of 1 Samuel.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 29-30. David is in a hard spot and then something terrible happens to him and his men. How he handles it can teach us a lot!
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 25, when David meets Abigail. You get my communion devotional in front of it this week.
This is my sermon of 1 Samuel where Saul goes to talk to the Witch of En-dor to consult with the spirit of long-dead Samuel!
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 26. This is now the second time that David has a chance to kill Saul, but he won't do it. He's leaving his vengeance and hurt in the hands of God.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 24, when David is hiding in a cave and he shows Saul some mercy.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 18-19. 18 went by so fast I let it travel with 19, but I won't do that a lot.
This is my sermon from Pentecost, 2021. Where I talk about Pentecost, Shavuot, and how God has given us a way of life.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 14, and it includes one of my favorite events from the Bible. Johnathan is out here living by faith while Saul is at home being religious with his fear and his heaped up rules and rituals.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 13, when Saul loses his kingship because he couldn't wait for Samuel
This is my sermon for the 5th (?!) Sunday of Advent. It seemed appropriate to talk about Revelation and the second coming after all of the Advent talks.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel chapter 12. There is a great picture in here of what God wants us to do when we sin...KEEP FOLLOWING HIM! DON'T GIVE UP!
This is my sermon after Christmas, where I talk about Revelation 12 as the 5th Sunday of advent.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 11, which also fell on Palm Sunday, so I got to talk about the first King of Israel and the Everlasting King of the Universe
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 10. This is one of my favorite ways ever to look at Saul becoming king.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 9, where God is a lot more involved in everyday mediocre events than we realize. He's always hoping to speak into our lives!
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 8, where the people of Israel ask for a king. It's such a parallel to chapter 4 when they wanted a golden ark to show their power, or even Adam and Eve wanting something that wasn't the best for them. God loves us all so much!
Here is my sermon on 1 Samuel 7 where true repentance happens and God saves Israel from the Philistines.
This is my sermon from 1 Samuel 6, when the Ark of the Freaking Covenant came back to Israel after 7 months in the land of the Philistines.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 5, when the Ark of the Covenant got stolen by the Philistines. God used that event to show His glory and to reach out to the Philistines, so they would repent and turn to Him.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel chapter 4, where the Ark of the covenant is finally lost to the Philistines and judgment falls on the house of Eli.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 3, where God speaks to Samuel for the first time and Eli gets one more chance to change his ways and the ways of his sons.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel 2, when Samuel is offered to God and goes to live at Shiloh. Eli gets a warning about how evil his sons are, but he continues to enable them and let them sin against God.
This is my sermon on 1 Samuel Chapter 1, when Hannah pleads to God in prayer because she can't have any children. God hears and answers, and as always, changes the whole world.
This is my sermon on Ruth 3-4 where Ruth pleads with Boaz to be her redeemer and some other bozo takes off his shoe.
This is my sermon on the first half of Ruth. You can see the effects of a hard life and pagan culture on poor Naomi.
This is my sermon for the 2nd week of Advent in 2020, talking about how God reveals Himself to us by His law.
These are my sermons from the 4 weeks of Advent in 2020. I talked about how God reveals Himself to us in:
- Creation
- His Law
- His Prophets
- His Son
These are my sermons from the 4 weeks of Advent in 2020. I talked about how God reveals Himself to us in:
- Creation
- His Law
- His Prophets
- His Son
I'm preaching through Advent 2020 on the four ways that God has reached out to us. Week one is through creation, so we're talking about how God created the world in 7 days (but not 168 hours) and why that's important to see how God created the world with compassion. HT to the BEMA podcast and Marty Solomon among others for some cool insights about the book of Genesis and creation.
This is my sermon for Thanksgiving 2020. I looked at the 4 times that Jesus says "Thanks" and of course, they are really amazing for us.
This is my sermon on Matthew 28, the end of Matthew's Gospel. Jesus raises from the dead and gives the great commission, which was huge. It was on the magnitude of the end of the Babylonian exile, which I explain near the end.
This is my sermon on Matthew 27, but it's part 2. I talk about one of my new favorite people: Simon of Cyrene, and what happened when Jesus died on the cross for your sins.
This is my sermon on the first part of Matthew chapter 27. Jesus stands trial before Pilate and all of the town demands crucifixion.
This is my sermon on the second half of the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 26. Jesus is at the last supper and then spends the night praying before the authorities come and arrest Him.
This is my sermon on the first half of Matthew 26. Jesus is just 2 days away from dying on the cross and we have 3 people distinctly showing what they will give or what they will take for Jesus.
This is my sermon on Matthew 25, where Jesus continues His parables about the end of the world, the coming of the Lord.
This is my sermon on Matthew 24. Jesus is talking about the end of the world where He will be revealed, and so will His true followers.
This is my sermon on Matthew 23, where Jesus yells at the Pharisees and teachers of the Law a lot about hypocrisy.
This is my sermon on Matthew 21, where we have Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry, and some teaching from Jesus about looking religious on the outside. This is also where He curses an unfruitful fig tree and says that "Tax Collectors and Prostititues" will enter the Kingdom of Heaven in front of the religious leaders.
Here is my sermon on the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus talks about how to be great in the Kingdom of Heaven. It's also where He says that famous quote "The greatest among you will be your servant." It's a good one.
The heading in your Bible might say that Matthew 19 is about divorce. That really rips it off because it’s about a lot more than that. 
Here is my sermon on Matthew 18, where Jesus gives a good collection of teachings that all connect together to help us forgive others and follow Jesus with our whole hearts.
This is my sermon on Matthew 17, where we talk about the transfiguration and then how Jesus grows our faith.
This is my sermon on Matthew 16 where Jesus talks about how He's going to build His church!
This is my sermon on Matthew chapter 14. Jesus finds out about John the Baptist being killed, feeds 5,000 people, walks on water, and more. He loves us so much!
This is an old old sermon from Westminster Church, 2013/05/26 about where church happens in the book of Acts.
I'll give you the answer: it happens in a lot of places, and not always where you think.
Here is my sermon from the Gospel of John for Advent. I went through all of the Gospels for advent in 2017.
This is my sermon from Advent 2017 where I told the Christmas story from each of the Gospels.
This is my first advent sermon from 2017. I went through Christmas in the four Gospels that year. This is the one from Matthew.
This is my sermon on Isaiah 25-28. It is one of my favorite times I've talked about what happens after we die and the resurrection.
Here is my opening sermon for my series through Isaiah. It's an overview and intro from the start.
Here is my sermon on a little part of Isaiah, chapter 2224. It was really hard to make this not political to our current environment, but it drove home Isaiah's message: trust in the Lord, not in anybody else.
I had a few minutes to speak to the Westside Pastors of Evansville today. I did a real quick exposition of Isaiah's vision in Chapter 6. It was fun.
This is my sermon from the 3rd Sunday of Advent 2019. This one is all about Joy! How do we get it and keep it?
My sermon on Judges 1-5, covering some intro, Othniel, Ehud, Shankar, and Deborah and Barak.
This is my last high-speed sermon through Judges. I covered some of the weirder stories and then finally ended with Samson.
Here is my short overview of all of Gideon's life. I covered it all in a single Sunday, which is too fast, but there are still some good bits in here.
This is my sermon on Colossians 1:15-24. It is the second sermon in my series on Colossians.
Sermons through the Gospel of John:
This is the introduction to the Gospel of John and chapter 1.
This is a backup space for my sermon audio. Here is Jesus in the Nicene creed from the Summer of 2016