Sermons on Set Your Minds On Things Above:

Renewing The Mind Series

Contributed by Vince Miller on Aug 28, 2018

Renewing the mind is a spiritual act of worship that requires the activity of putting on and putting off.

So a few years back, two professors from Baylor University, wrote a book on how America viewed God himself. And essentially they did surveys of American's and American Christians and how they viewed God. They came up with 4 different variations on how people viewed God. They either viewed him as - ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

Set Your Course Series

Contributed by Rodney Coe on Feb 9, 2015

Our heart gives us the direction for our lives, therefore, we must guard our hearts.

On November 28, 1979 Flight 901 left Auckland Airport in New Zealand. The flight was a sightseeing tour bound for Antarctica with 257 people on board. http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/kids/nzdisasters/erebus.asp These sight seeing tours had been operating since 1977. They had experienced ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:23

Denomination: Baptist

Set Your Heart

Contributed by David Mende on Jun 5, 2018

What are you setting your heart on? We must set our hearts to study the Word so that we can do it and teach it. I would be delighted if you could rate this sermon and give brief feedback.

INTRODUCTION (SECURE ATTENTION) & BACKGROUND OF THE PASSAGE: PRAY before starting the sermon. I’m sure that many of you are excited as today is the last day of exams. No studies, no assignments, no exams, no work duties until the opening service of the 2nd semester. However, as you go for your ...read more

Scripture: Ezra 7:10

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Living In The Last Days In The Power Of God’s Transformation – Part 2 Series

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Dec 5, 2023

The importance of true worship is looked at and equally – do not be conformed to the world. The vital truth of the mind is pondered, with verses about the mind. The mind must be in the right state, set on God, for it plays a critical part in our attitude and therefore in our love towards God.

LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS IN THE POWER OF GOD’S TRANSFORMATION – PART 2 We are continuing this message from where we left off last time, and this is the close – Part 2. It was a night message delivered in Boston, England in a Seminar. The one aspect we are being taught here from the verse in ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:1-2, Luke 10:39, Luke 10:42, John 12:3, Matthew 2:2, Matthew 14:33, Matthew 28:9, John 4:23, Romans 12:2, 1 Peter 1:14, Romans 8:29, Philippians 3:10, Matthew 16:23, Matthew 22:37, Romans 8:6, Ephesians 2:3, Ephesians 4:23-32, Colossians 3:2-3  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Setting Our Minds To God's Kingdom Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Sep 24, 2012

As a Christian, see yourself in God’s Kingdom everyday and live accordingly!

Let’s start with this question: What do you need to have a kingdom? A kingdom needs a ruler! A kingdom needs people or “subjects”! A kingdom needs a realm or a place! Jesus Christ often talked about the Kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is mentioned over 70 times in the New ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:18-30

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Set Your Standards

Contributed by Germain Brown on Nov 13, 2000

Do not settle for less than what you want to acheive because in the Lord, everything is possible.

SET YOUR STANDARDS 2 CORINTHIANS 7:1 SAYS: “HAVING THEREFORE THESE PROMISES,DEARLY BELOVED, LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES FROM ALL FILTHINESS OF THE FLESH AND SPIRIT, PERFECTING HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD.” I REMEMBER AS A LITTLE KID, IN DALLAS, TEXAS, WE LIVED RIGHT NEXT TO A ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 7:7, Ephesians 4:24

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Live Above The Worldly Line

Contributed by Larry La Douceur on May 27, 2009

“SOAR” We weren’t raised with Christ and left in the graveyard, we weren’t raised with Christ to mire in muck...

Live Above the Worldly Line Colossians 3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. (ESV) It is obvious from the Scripture we just read ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:1-2

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Above The Law

Contributed by Johnny Carver on Apr 8, 2002

We live in a time when people think they can beat the system of God’s way of doing things. Sin enters their life and then they can’t understand why things start going wrong.

Scripture: Joshua 7:1 – Title: “Above The Law” Introduction: Joshua and the people of God were experiencing victory. They had come out of the wilderness, crossed the flooded Jordan River on dry ground. They had seen the walls of Jericho fall down after they had walked around them for seven days. ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 7:1-15

Denomination: Pentecostal

Winning The Battle For Your Mind

Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 17, 2024

One of the most important things we need to learn and teach others is how to guard, strengthen, and renew our minds, because the battle for sin always starts in the mind.

Opening illustration: A violent battle is raging around us twenty-four hours per day. In 1965, Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote a book about it called The Invisible War. It is the battle for your mind, and that battle is vicious. It is intense. It is unrelenting, and it is unfair because Satan never ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Treasuring Christ Above All Things

Contributed by S. H. Mathews on Dec 8, 2015

This expository sermon explores Peter's "great confession" and Jesus' transfiguration to place Christian spirituality into biblical perspective.

The Foundation of Christian Spirituality: Treasuring Christ Above All Things Mark 8:27-9:9 S. H. Mathews Background of the Text: Mark 8:27-30 27 Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, "Who do men say that ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Mind

Contributed by Bala Samson on Sep 1, 2019

God is not interested in busy-bees but He is looking for people who are Kingdom-minded.

MIND Mathew 16:23”…for you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but man's." WORLDLY-MINDED: Jesus rebuked Peter and told him not to set his mind on the things of man, but to upgrade his thinking on God’s interests. Amen. Worldly people are unable to comprehend the ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:2

Denomination: Pentecostal

First Things First

Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jun 15, 2006

A message about setting your priorities.

FIRST THINGS FIRST I attended the California Baptist Institute for 5 years. Dr. Roy M. Reed was the president of the school and every year, on the first day of school he gave the same lecture. He would say, "Young men, learn to set your priorities." The Word of God give us a list of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:28

Denomination: Baptist

Mind Made Up ! Series

Contributed by Clarence Weaver Sr on Oct 24, 2005

HOW TO GET BALANCE IN YOUR CHRISTIAN WALK

Due to the large amount of sermons and topics that appear on this site I feel it is necessary to post this disclaimer on all sermons posted. These sermons are original to the author and the leading of the Holy Spirit. While ideas and illustrations are often gleaned from many sources including those ...read more

Scripture: James 1:8-9

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Christ Crowned Above All Things Series

Contributed by Michael Goodfellow on Nov 11, 2006

The tension between the subjection of the world to Christ and the world in which we currently live

One of the great concerns in our Christian state is when Scripture speaks in a way that describes a world we don’t quite live in yet. The author to the Hebrews today begins talking partly about a current circumstance, but he also talks about what he calls a world to come. And for us many times we ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 2:5-9

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Setting Your Priorities Series

Contributed by Charles Salmon on Oct 18, 2007

God, obedience, other people should be the order of priorities for the Christian.

Setting Your Priorities Jonah 4:10, 11 INTRO.: God was teaching Jonah a lesson with the vine. He provided it for Jonah’s comfort then destroyed it. The lesson is brought home in the question which closes the book of Jonah. No answer is supplied in the text. God wants Jonah to think about it and ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 4:10-11

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ