Sermons on Catch Up:

Look Up, Grow Up, Spruce Up

Contributed by Maurice Mccarthy on Apr 14, 2003

The last days church will be a great one!

1 Look Up, Grow Up, Spruce Up In Rochester, NY, there is a local radio sports show that is a call up program. Some callers are regulars and they have nicknames one that has always stuck out to me is a guy who call’s himself, "Mr. Negativity." I guess he always looks at things from the negative ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:26-30

Denomination: Pentecostal

Rise Up, Build Up, Work Up

Contributed by Bob Aubuchon on Apr 2, 2001

As a body of believers we are encouraged to rise up, build up, and work up in the strength of the Lord.

By: R. AuBuchon Jr. In the past two weeks we have been invited to get in the boat and work together as a team. Today we are challenged to rebuild the walls that will fortify family life, church life and community life. Much like in the days of Nehemiah the walls that once protected and gave us ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 2:18

Denomination: Baptist

Eat Up, Grow Up & Give It Up!

Contributed by Chris Jordan on Aug 29, 2006

Picture an adult in diapers still drinking milk from a bottle – that’s not right! Are you in the same place spiritually that you were a year ago? 5 years ago? These things ought not to be! God wants us to grow up - spiritually speaking that is!

EAT UP, GROW UP, AND GIVE IT UP! (Preached in the Chinese Church) OPENING TEXT: “Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:1-3

Denomination: *other

Raised Up Revved Up Prayed Up Series

Contributed by Judith Hand on Feb 6, 2015

To avoid burnout and stay focused on our mission to share the good news we must be raised up revved up and prayed up according to Isaiah 40:21-31 1st Corinthians 9:16-23 and Mark 1:29-39

Raised Up Revved Up Prayed Up Isaiah 40:21-31 I Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 Most of us are very busy and we associate this with being productive. But I have found that everyone likes to declare a “snow day” once in a while and simply slow down and sit around and read a ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:29-39

Denomination: Methodist

Built Up, Bound Up, Lifted Up

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Feb 16, 2010

We are so into upward mobility; but God's version is different. It involves building us up so that the powerless have power; binding up the wounded so that they can understand brokenness; and lifting us up so that we can use our power for others.

I can remember when the word "furlough" was a happy word. It was a happy word because it meant that somebody in your family was coming home from military duty for a while. "Furlough" for me brings up a memory of standing, as a small boy, in Union Station in Louisville, waiting for the train to ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 147:1-20

Denomination: Baptist

Hurry Up And Wait Series

Contributed by Victor Yap on Nov 6, 2003

Saul, Pt. 2

HURRY UP AND WAIT (1 SAM 11) It’s been said, “Rome is not built in a day.” When I was a youngster I was in a hurry to grow up. I was skinny and short. When my brother and I sat in the same car going to school every day, I couldn’t help but compare his size to mine. My brother, who was two years ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 11:1-15

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Hurry Up And Wait Series

Contributed by Victor Yap on Dec 20, 2007

Saul, Pt. 2

HURRY UP AND WAIT (1 SAMUEL 11) It’s been said, “Rome is not built in a day.” When I was a youngster I was in a big hurry to grow up. I was skinny and short. When my brother and I sat in the same car going to school every day, I couldn’t help but compare his size to mine. My brother, who was two ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 11:1-15

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Caught Up But When? Introduction Series

Contributed by Bob Faulkner on May 19, 2015

Lots of ideas about the rapture. What does Scripture explicitly teach? Introduction to a series of talks on this subject.

INTRODUCTION God’s Garden is overrun with weeds. To get to the fruit can be a time-consuming work, but certainly it is worth the effort. What theoretically could be a wealth of comfort and joy for God’s people has become a morass of complication. But no wonder. Both Jesus and Paul ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 24:1-31

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Who Do You Trust To Catch You?

Contributed by Gary Regazzoli on Jul 10, 2003

Ever played the game of choosing someone to catch you as you fell backwards. We can put even more trust in God

Who do you trust to catch you? May have heard the joke about the man who fell off a cliff but managed to grab onto a root jutting out from the cliff face • As he hung there reviewing his options, he started calling out, “Is anyone up there” • He was surprised to hear a voice say to him, “Yes, this ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 22:1-14

Denomination: Christian Church

Can You Catch The Wind With Your Hands?

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Jan 13, 2014

All way to meaning apart from God is but a grasping for the wind. But the way of Christ is the way to meaning.

Can You Catch the Wind With Your Hands? Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 The Preacher uses many colorful metaphors to describe the vanity of everything he sees and does. In many ways, the Book of Ecclesiastes purposely paints the despair and futility he feels with the most colorful terms. He describes life to ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:12-18

Denomination: Independent/Bible

What’s The Catch? - Matthew 7:7 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Nov 15, 2024

We know we do not get everything we ask for, so when Jesus says “Ask and you will receive” what is the catch?

Matthew 7:7-12 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:7

You Catch Them I Will Clean Them

Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Jul 19, 2011

Winning the lost at all cost

YOU CATCH THEM I WILL CLEAN THEM 18And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 19And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 4:18-20

Denomination: Baptist

Trying To Catch A Sea Monster With A Fish Hook

Contributed by Jimmy Stewart on Nov 12, 2004

If we are going to win the lost, we have to use the right tools.

Trying to catch a sea monster with a fish hook Job 41:1-9 I’m going to be honest: I have read many times in the Bible about this thing called "Leviathan", but have never really paid much attention to it. But, as I was reading this chptr. the other day, I felt like God had something to say to me. ...read more

Scripture: Job 41:1-9

Denomination: Pentecostal

To Win Give Up Series

Contributed by T D on Dec 31, 2010

Surrendering to God.

Series: It’s Backwards! To Win Give Up John 12:24-26 In our living room we are starting a project of investment for future growth which we believe will be very profitable. It begins with at properly amount of investment in a fertile market….. actually we are growing tomato ...read more

Scripture: John 12:24-26

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Getting Caught Up Series

Contributed by John Oscar on Jul 29, 2021

A heavily edited sermon from the series, "The Return of the King" available on Sermon Central, we look at the biblical prophecies regarding the return of our King Jesus

Getting Caught Up Return of the King: Week 3 Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; Revelation 20:4-5 For the past two weeks we’ve been learning about Jesus’ Second Coming. In Revelation 22, He said He would be coming, and coming soon. What Jesus’ second coming is ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Corinthians 15:50-58, Revelation 20:4-5

Denomination: Assembly Of God