Sermons on Cracks In The Wall:

God: Your Best Covering (Isaiah 22:1-14; Psalm 91:1-16) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Oct 20, 2025

a one week rabbit trail, setting the stage for next week, focused on the idea of "covering" as protection. In the U.S., we are covered by our military, and the constitution. But God's covering is better.

Today, we will take a one week rabbit trail from our Revelation study, and work our way through the first oracle in Isaiah 22. This will seem beyond random until next week, but I do have this vague plan of how everything should come together. My end goal is really the second oracle-- the one ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 22:1-14, Psalm 91:1-16

Be Strong And Courageous! Your God Comes!

Contributed by Christopher Goelzer on Jan 21, 2004

Encourage and empower believers to be strong because God has given them life and a highway to heaven.

NIV Isaiah 35:1 The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, 2 it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 35:1-10

Denomination: Lutheran

Glory Internalized Series

Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Feb 26, 2013

God's glory shine through the brokenness of our lives when we let Him be the center of our lives.

Last Sunday we began again a focus on the glory of God, and I skipped the video I had planned to share (which we first saw last September), so I want to begin there today. It helps us with the review: what is “the glory of God”? It is the words of Pastor-theologian John Piper, ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:7-16

Denomination: Baptist

Assets And Liabilities Series

Contributed by Stephen Todd on Apr 1, 2004

How do you tell which things in your life are assets and which are liabilities?

Philippians 3:4-11 Sunday, June 2, 2002 To get us thinking this morning, I want to ask you a question. What are your assets and what are your liabilities? You say "pastor, that’s easy. Here’s what I own - those are my assets. Here’s what I owe - those are my liabilities." That’s not what ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:4-11

Denomination: Baptist

Strong Families Start With A Strong Foundation Series

Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 28, 2014

A case for the need to build homes on a solid foundation, rather than sorry substitutes

*Ps 127:1-2 The Church family is built of families, and one of the things that we’ll have to be committed to if we’re going to be a strong church is to have strong families – whether that means you’re a family of 15, a mixed family, or a family of one single person. The ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 127:1-2

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Just Do It!

Contributed by Nicholas Connolly on Jan 27, 2003

The obedience of Jonah, Peter, James and John is a model for our own obedience to the Lord

“Just do it! Just do it”! So goes the Nike sneaker company. Speaking of sneakers and being sneaky, that company wants one thing: “Just do it” -buy their shoes. They take a phrase that usually goes with giving into temptation. When you are on a diet and faced with a lovely array of deserts such ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:14-20, Jonah 3:1-10

Denomination: Methodist

"Restoration Realized" Series

Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 5, 2002

Joy is the outcome of the Christian life; we don’t generate it—God does.

Psalm Steps>> “Restoration Realized”, Psalm 126 Pastor Bob Leroe, Cliftondale Congregational Church, Saugus, Massachusetts We can detect in the words of Psalm 126 a sigh of relief. The release from captivity in Babylon was like a dream come true. The people knew about the promises of return to ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 126:1-6, Psalm 126:1-8

Denomination: Congregational

Wasted Watch

Contributed by Larry Breeden on Oct 26, 2006

The Resurrection of Christ was unpreventable

The Wasted Watch Mt 27: 57 - 28:15 INTRO: Military Term: Guard duty, Duty, Post or Watch *Something that all military personnel has to do sometime or another, stand watch They start you out in boot camp given us a stocking cap & flashlight saying watch for what, anything. Unauthorized ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Pushing For Purity

Contributed by Chad Garrison on Dec 23, 2006

Recently, my wife and I moved into a new condo. But as I began work on our new home, I began to see a formula for pushing for purification in our own life.

Purify Proverbs 4:25-27 Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil. The definition of purify: pur-i-fy: a : to clear from material ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:25-27

Denomination: Foursquare

Enduring The Race

Contributed by Stephen Carroll on Feb 22, 2006

The writer of the letter to the Hebrews compares our faith walk to a race that is to be run with perseverance. This not one of those races you may have run at an elementary school field day, You know the ones where everyone got a medal even if they ran th

Enduring for the Gold Hebrews 12: 1-3 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-3

Denomination: Salvation Army

Pressing On (Determination)

Contributed by Spencer Homan on Dec 11, 2007

This is a sermon focusing on staying the course despite rejection and obstacles.

Luke 13:31-35 At that very hour some Pharisees came, and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. Nevertheless I must go on my ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:31-35

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Altar Of Incense Series

Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Sep 19, 2008

How do you smell to God? This altar inside the Tabernacle proper is beautifully contrasted to the brazen altar out in the courtyard. The symbolic aromas in the air cannot be ignored. Link inc. to formatted text, audio, PowerPoint.

Altar of Incense ‘How Do You Smell?’ Exodus 30:1-10 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/AltarOfIncense.html It has been a wonderful study of the Tabernacle so far, and the best is yet to come as we enter the Holy of Holies next time. But as of now, we have looked at the first 5 articles of ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 30:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

The Discipline Of Solitude Series

Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 24, 2005

Part of 5-part series on discipleship. This message examines solitude.

LIVING ABOVE THE ORDINARY Part 1: The Discipline of Solitude There’s an old saying, one you’ve seen on many refrigerators and office walls before. It says, “It’s hard to soar with eagles, when you’re surrounded by turkeys.” In many ways that saying is true. It is also true that it can be very ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 46:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Get Out Of The Boat

Contributed by Kevin Litchfield on Oct 11, 2005

This sermon challenges us to risk for God.

A story is told of Two hunters who came across a bear so big that they dropped their rifles and ran for cover. One man climbed a tree while the other hid in a nearby cave. The bear was in no hurry to eat, so he sat down between the tree and the cave to reflect upon his good fortune. Suddenly, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 14:22

Denomination: Baptist

Narnia: Discover The Wonder: He Is Closer Than You Might Think Series

Contributed by Rurel Ausley on Dec 7, 2005

Explores Lucy’s surprise experience of Narnia with the truth that there are "wardrobe doors" for us to walk through to discover the Kingdom of God.

Discover The Wonder: He Is Closer Than You Might Think Lk.1:29-35; 2:8-15; Mk.1:15; 2 Kgs.6:14-18 Intro… 1) Lk.1:29-35…Mary and Joseph are going about there merry, obscure little way, when….all of a sudden the unseen spiritual world contacts them with a message from the angel Gabriel…you are ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-15

Denomination: Methodist