Sermons on Selective Lifting:

Lift High The Cross (Not Your Intelligence)

Contributed by Daniel Habben on Mar 20, 2007

Lift High the Cross (not your intelligence)1) The cross marks true wisdom 2) The cross contains true power

Are you smarter than a 5th grader? That’s what the producers of a new television show want to find out. I took an online quiz from the show’s website and found out that I am not smarter than a 5th grader. I didn’t know that when you mix the colors red and blue you get purple. (I thought you got ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Denomination: Lutheran

What Are We Lifting Up To Draw People

Contributed by Douglas Duvall on Nov 13, 2006

Devotion at state association meeting.

WHAT ARE WE LIFTING UP TO DRAW PEOPLE? Illus: A POSSIBLE METHOD OF EVANGELISM A Christian man owned a barber shop. One night, at a revival meeting, the barber felt greatly burdened to do more with his testimony for Christ. The next evening, the barber began attending a "soul winner’s class" at his ...read more

Scripture: John 3:14-15

Denomination: Baptist

God Lifts Up, God Brings Down

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Sep 17, 2002

This sermon deals with the issue of pride and how it manages to sneak upon us all.

God Lifts Up & God Brings Down 1 Kings 11:29-39 James 4:13-17 1 Kings 11:29-14:17 If someone says, that person is full of pride, what image comes to your mind? Do you see someone who is stuck on himself? Do you imagine someone who has a big head. Do you think of someone who likes ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Lift Up Your Head And Keep It Up!

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Dec 14, 2007

Life is very heavy at times. We must learn to lift our heads even if our hopes appeared dashed.

GET YOUR HEAD UP! AND KEEP IT UP! By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com Luke 21:26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. DON’T WE HAVE A REASON TO BE HEAVY? AS JONAH SAID, YOU ARE ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 8:8-10

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Lift Up Your Heads, Keep Calm, Carry On , And Finish Hoeing

Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Nov 30, 2012

The sermon tells us that though the end maybe near one should lift up your head, keep calm, carry on, and finish hoeing.

Luke 21 :25-36 Lift Up Your Heads, Keep Calm, Carry ON, and Finish Hoeing 1. According to many Scholars this reading falls under two parts: ...read more

Scripture: Luke 21:25-36

Denomination: Methodist

Harvesting The Grain

Contributed by Dewayne Bolton on Aug 25, 2011

To encourage Christians to see the fields that are ready to be harvested ang get involved

JOHN 4; 35 HARVESTING THE GRAIN INTRO: A. I never paid this passage of scripture much attention before [not that it wasn’t important] but like so many other verses that we read and for some reason they never speak much to us. a. But one day in prayer God begin speaking to my heart about this ...read more

Scripture: John 4:35

Denomination: Holiness

My Prayer Is An Offering To God

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Sep 21, 2014

To show that being busy is not an excuse not to pray, because we don't need to neglect offering to GOD thru our prayers and uplifted hands.

I. EXORDIUM: How often do you pray? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that being busy is not an excuse not to pray, because we don't need to neglect offering to GOD thru our prayers and uplifted hands. IV. TEXT: Psalms 141:2 (Amplified Bible) 141:2 Let my prayer be ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 141:2

Denomination: Pentecostal

Shadows Of Cross Series

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Apr 6, 2023

There are many shadows of the Cross in the Old Testament. It is appropriate to meditate on this day. May the Lord bless you. I will boast only about the CROSS of JESUS CHRIST (Galatians 6:14).

Good Friday Meditations Theme: Shadows of Cross in Old Testament Text: Leviticus 16:20-22 Good Friday service: It is only a commemorative service and not exactly observation of the exact time of the Crucifixion. If some are more concerned about on the Exact Time of the occurrence, then the whole ...read more

Scripture: Leviticus 16:20-22, 1 Corinthians 1:18

Denomination: Methodist

Think Encouragement Series

Contributed by Dr. Madana Kumar, Phd on Nov 10, 2019

When we are discouraged, or we knowingly or unknowingly begin to discourage others, let us stop and take back the control of what we are thinking. Let us think Encouragement

Think Encouragement Today is Mother’s Day. Thank God for mothers. Without them where would we all have been? It is usual for children to do something special for their mothers on Mother’s day. So this particular mother was delighted when her children told her that she could stay put in bed late ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:8, Romans 14:19, 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10, 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

"a Seeker Meets The Saviour" Series

Contributed by Gordon Weatherby on Mar 30, 2021

This sermon deals with the Man Nicodemus as he came to Christ, and Jesus pointing him to a future time three and a half years later when he would see Jesus hanging on a cross.

“A SEEKER MEETS THE SAVIOUR” (Sermon #7 in 2021 series on Gospel of John) John 3: 1-21 Greenmount and O’Leary Churches of Christ February 28, 2021 Video Link: https://youtu.be/vJW8x6WRn1A INTRODUCTION: 1.) Among the phrases we so often hear in the church today are the words: “Seeker”, Seeker ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-21, Luke 7:36-50, Matthew 3:11, Acts 2:38, Titus 3:5-7, Jeremiah 29:13, Isaiah 55:8-9, John 19:38-40  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

A High-Way For Our God

Contributed by Larry Grant on Jun 23, 2024

These verses point out the preparations the church must make for the Kingdom if we want to see the Lord move among us in a time of power and glory. God’s “High Way” always stands in contradiction to the World’s “Low Way.”

Isaiah 40:3-5 A High Way For Our God June 23, 2024 Isaiah is writing about the coming of the Messiah. These verses were partially fulfilled through the ministry of John the Baptist. Matthew 3:3 says In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, "Repent, ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 40:3-5

Denomination: Baptist

Encouragement Series

Contributed by Rich Anderson on Feb 18, 2011

I suspect all of us can identify a Barnabas or two in our past who gave us a second chance. Maybe it was a parent or a relative or a teacher or a church leader or a close friend. Christianity means second chances.

God wants to come to His world, but He wants to come to it through man. This is the mystery of our existence. He wants to come to this world through you. Proverbs 15:23 says, “A man has joy by an apt answer, and how delightful is a timely word.” I enjoyed a Charles Schulz cartoon ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 15:23

Denomination: Christian Church

God Of A Small Nation!!!

Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on May 14, 2014

Wrapping up some important spiritual nuggets around the occasion of the 66th Independence day of Israel...

GOD OF A SMALL NATION Now I do not know if the famous Indian novelist Arundhati Roy had Israel in mind when she wrote her Booker Prize winning novel “God of small things” but for a good 2000 years of its Scriptural history tracing ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 7:7-8

Denomination: *other

"Little" Israel Vs "Monster" Global Terrorism???

Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Nov 28, 2015

Rather than focusing on "Little" Israel's effective, pro-active methods in neutralizing the terror threat in it's land, this message dwells on the theme of it being a "source" (John 4:22) of a greater victory over a far more dangerous problem...SIN!!!

"Little" Israel vs "Monster" Global Terrorism??? Rather than focusing on "Little" Israel's effective, pro-active methods in neutralizing the terror threat in it's land (action replay of ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 7:7-8

Denomination: *other

Hearing Problems

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 19, 2023

Are we afraid to ask what Jesus has in store for us, of what our future following him might look like?

This was a very difficult sermon to prepare because this passage doesn’t really apply to you, at least not the way most preachers spin it. I can just hear the disciples arguing over who’s the greatest, can’t you? like a bunch of little boys bragging in the playground at recess, or kids ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:30-37

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed