Sermons on Cut Down:

Cut To The Heart Series

Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Sep 6, 2007

Before we can take the land, we will have to go through the pain and discomfort of spiritual preparation.

Cut to the Heart Text: Joshua 5:1-12 Introduction 1. Illustration: The Butterball Turkey company set up a hotline to answer consumer questions about preparing holiday turkeys. One woman called to inquire about cooking a turkey that had been in her freezer for 23 years. The operator told her ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 5:1-12

Denomination: Methodist

Cut To The Heart

Contributed by Matthew Blau on Apr 3, 2008

When Peter said these words. It cut to the hearts of those who heard. Will they cut to yours too?

Cut to the Heart Have you ever talked to someone who just wasn’t listening. You feel as though you are talking to a wall, unmoved and uncaring. Or even worse have you been heard and then ignored. Parents, how many times have we warned our children, not to do something or they will get hurt. No ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:36-41

Denomination: Methodist

Cut It Out

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 21, 2023

We are always trying to blame our sin on something else - on someone else, on society, on circumstances. But Jesus says that what makes us sin is part of ourselves.

I stopped watching TV news three or four years ago. But you have to know what's going on, somehow, so there are a few sources I've come to trust. But guess what? They're just as depressing as TV news. Because what is actually happening is worse than what you might imagine if you stayed ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:38-50

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Cut The Rope Series

Contributed by Derek Geldart on Feb 8, 2025

This sermon challenges believers to trust Jesus as the "Waymaker" by cutting the rope of complacency, fear, and self-reliance, fully surrendering their plans and ambitions to God's authority and stepping forward in faith through the doors of opportunity He opens.

Cut the Rope Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/sermons/ Apostle Paul exhorts us to “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). While we often interpret this in terms of resisting sin, there’s a deeper truth here. Yes, with God’s help, we strive to ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 1:8-9, Matthew 23:27, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 1:22

Denomination: Baptist

Restoring Your Cutting Edge Series

Contributed by Steve Lotze on Mar 27, 2007

Final Message in the Drifting Series. God’s called us to be on the cutting edge – piercing darkness with light! Dressed in spiritual armor we are wielding the weapons of our warfare with skill and precision. Performing at this level can take its toll b

Restoring Your Cutting Edge August 14, 2005 2Kings 6:1-7 Summarize series: Drifting - A Candid Look at Spiritual Entropy We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. Heb 2:1 1. We live in a world that resists the Christian life in its very ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 6:1-7

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How To Recover The Cutting Edge

Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Mar 24, 2009

We’ll never be able to serve the Lord in an effective manner until we do it in His power alone.

How to Recover the Cutting Edge 2 Kings 6:1-7 March 1, 2009 FBC, Chester Dr. Mike Fogerson, Speaker Introduction Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us.2 ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 6:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

How To Recover The Cutting Edge

Contributed by Greg Irby on Jan 30, 2009

Most of what we do in the church can be done without the agency or the power of the Holy Spirit!

Text: 2 Kings 6:5 2 Kings 6:5 5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. Introduction: The school of the prophets had grown to the point that they needed to provide new facilities. As they are in the process ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 6:5

Denomination: Baptist

Don't Let The Lord Have To Cut You Down

Contributed by John Johnson on Nov 10, 2008

This is a parable of the unbarren fig tree

Last Week we spoke about the parable of the weeds. This week we will be talking about the parable of fig tree. How many of you remember what we said a parable was last week? A parable is a earthly story with a heavenly meaning. The reason Jesus spoke in parables so that we might get a better ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:6-9

Denomination: Baptist

Cut Away The Death Traps

Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Oct 4, 2009

How can we avoid laying death traps for others and for ourselves? Jesus addresses that issue for his disciples and for us. Parts: A. By fighting party pride that looks down on others B. By fighting what draws your heart into sin C. As God’s Word salts you

Text: Mark 9:38-50 Theme: Cut Away the Death Traps A. By fighting party pride that looks down on others B. By fighting what draws your heart into sin C. As God’s Word salts you Season: Pentecost 18b Date: October 4, 2009 Web page: ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:38-50

Denomination: Lutheran

Grow Like A Palm Tree Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 4, 2025

God places a great deal of emphasis on us growing in our faith and bearing fruit. But why? What difference would it make if we did?

OPEN: There’s a story about a little boy who had a special hiding place in the back yard. It was an old fruit tree. It had lots of leaves, but it hadn’t produced fruit in years, but the little boy didn’t care. He’d climb up in those branches, and hide amongst the leaves, and for hours he’d pretend ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 92:12-15

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Have You Lost Your Cutting Edge For The Lord?

Contributed by Jimmy Davis on Sep 12, 2001

The young student prophet of Elisha lost his iron axe head in the Jordan River. He lost his cutting edge for the Lord, have you?

Sermon.992 See #.478 “Have You Lost Your Cutting Edge For The Lord?” Second Kings 6:1-7 This event took place in the 8th century BC. There are many people in this Bible story, but there are two main characters, an unnamed prophet student, and the prophet Elisha. You remember that Elisha had ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 6:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

It Bore No Fruit Series

Contributed by D. Dewaine Phillips on Mar 26, 2022

If a person does not abide in God’s Word, he or she will be cut down. This passage looks at how we need to allow Jesus, the Word made flesh, to penetrate our heart as He penetrated the temple. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

This evening’s message is entitled “It Bore No Fruit,” and it’s taken from what is commonly called “The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree.” “Die when I may,” said Abraham Lincoln, “I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow.”(1) Lincoln ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:6-9

Denomination: Baptist

Cut-Off Vs Pruning

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Dec 12, 2012

I. EXORDIUM: What will you choose? to be cut-off or prune? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that pruning is more to be chosen than to be cut-off IV. TEXT: John 15:2 (New Living Translation, Second Edition) H

I. EXORDIUM: What will you choose? to be cut-off or prune? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that pruning is more to be chosen than to be cut-off IV. TEXT: John 15:2 (New Living Translation, Second Edition) He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce ...read more

Scripture: John 15:2

Denomination: Pentecostal

She Is Cut To Pieces!

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Dec 9, 2021

Often we hear disturbing things as we listen to the evening news. Sometimes the news we hear is so shocking that we are temporarily mesmerized by what we hear.

Such is the case in our text. I doubt that anywhere in the scriptures we could read a more disturbing passage than we have in this text. Let me show you what I mean. First, we read about... I. THE CONCUBINE WHAT IS A CONCUBINE? She was a secondary wife. In the Bible, most tribal chiefs, ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Cut The Ropes Now

Contributed by Steve Mays on Nov 21, 2013

The most dangerous thing in the whole world is an unbroken Christian—a Christian who feels that he doesn’t need anything.

God has been teaching me powerfully in my heart something that I am going to title, “Cut the Rope.” It is time for many of us to cut the rope as I had learned while I was in the hospital for back surgery—not being overwhelmed with certain situations or circumstances that I was ...read more

Scripture: Acts 27:22-32

Denomination: Calvary Chapel