Sermons on Upon This Rock:

Making The Jail House Rock

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on May 25, 2022

God needs to shake things up in the church and free us from our self-imprisonment.

Making the Jail House Rock Acts 16:16-34 The text we read this morning has been a popular one for Vacation Bible Schools for many years. The cardboard props of the wall of the jail house and the barred windows has “imprisoned” many a child or saint in the skit. someone pulls the string, and the ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:16-34

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Pursuing The Rock Of Ages-2

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Jun 28, 2012

2 of 2. Moses revealed Israel’s need to seek/pursue the Rock of Ages. God’s word encourages our need to seek/pursue the Rock of Ages. Who searches for OR How do we pursue the Rock of Ages? A pursuit of the Rock of Ages considers...

PURSUING The ROCK Of AGES--II—Deuteronomy 32:3-4, 15, 18 VBS Theme: Gold Rush—Searching for the Rock of Ages! Attention: The value of Gold today’s commodities market. Yesterday Gold commodities were worth $1,566.90 per troy ounce or ~31.1g which = ~1.1oz. *As a young teenager I ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 32:15-18

Denomination: Baptist

Between A Rock And A Hard Place?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 28, 2018

We need honest evaluation and regular check ups of our spiritual journey. What is in the way that hinders our vision? Are we robbing God? Could we be robbing ourselves from our potential? Balaam got between a rock and a hard place and could not see?

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE. --- REGULAR CHECK-UPS? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (I do this lesson in two parts.) REGULAR CHECK UPS? Near the end of the school year, I was teaching the 6th grade just out of Pennington Gap, Virginia. The section we were studying ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Unshakable Things

Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Jul 24, 2022

A time of shaking is coming a time in the world when everything is shaken, except certain things which can never be shaken. All that is not built upon Christ the solid rock will fall and only things eternal will stand.

Unshakable Things By Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer Jr. PRELUDE: - I grew up in the church back in the day when we sang songs that stirred something up deep down on the inside. I’m not talking about emotionalism because you can be emotional without being spiritual, but you can’t be spiritual without ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 3:10, Hebrews 12:24-29, Matthew 7:24-29

Denomination: Apostolic

Chase The Wind Or Stand On The Rock

Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Oct 16, 2021

A life that is built pursuing worldly things is like chasing the wind. But a life built on the Rock which is Christ is the only one that will endure.

Chase the Wind or Stand on the Rock Text: Ecclesiastes 3:1-17 THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER If you will, take your Bibles this morning and open them up to the Book of Ecclesiastes. I’ve been looking a lot at the wisdom literature from Scripture recently, and I don’t know about all of you, but in these ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-17

Denomination: Independent/Bible

72 Hours That Rocked The World Series

Contributed by Richard White on Mar 27, 2010

These 72 hours would change the world, spiritually, religious, and physically forever. Jesus did what only He could do, pay the price for all of our sins.

72 hours that Rocked the World Passion Chapters of the 4 Gospels We need to examine all four Gospels to see the entire Passion Week story. By doing this we see the complete story of what transpired in that last 72 hours. In these hours Jesus will change the world like only He can. These last ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Rock - Exodus Part 16 Series

Contributed by Dan Carroll on Jul 28, 2011

God always redeems us when we humble ourselves and let Him do so.

INTRODUCTION • Exodus 15 - God reveals Himself as a healer…Exodus 16 God reveals Himself as a provider, Exodus 17 reveals Him as our banner or cover • The longer we walk with God the more He will refine us…if we let Him • God’s goal is to build us and refine us ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 17:1-16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Contributed by J. Yeargin on May 29, 2003

Sometimes we can become so foolish that God (with His mercy and Grace) will have to send in our enemy to set us straight and keep us out of trouble.

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE In 1 Samuel 29, David manages to get himself into a real jam. After being delivered from the hand of Saul on numerous occasions, David becomes weary of living like a fugitive. In a moment of despair, he reasons that his only hope is to flee from Saul into the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 30:6-8, 1 Samuel 29:1-11

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Great Confession

Contributed by David Cambridge on Jul 18, 2002

What was the ’rock’ that Jesus promised to build His church upon? What does ’the gates of Hell’ mean? These are just two of the questions answered in this exegesis of Matthew 16:13-19.

The Great Confession An Exegesis Of Mathew 16:13-19 Introduction 1. After the miracle of feeding four-thousand people with seven loaves and a few little fish (Matthew 15:32-38), Jesus and His disciples came to Magdala (Matthew 16:39). a. It was in Magdala that the Pharisees and Sadducees asked ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 16:13-19

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Rock Bottom? Basket Cases!

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 10, 2025

God has a plan and we must learn by faith to trust his plan. Let us look at some BASKET CASES in the Bible. Good ministry needs a nucleus of supporters to help hold the ropes to advance the work. Enlist helpers to advance the torch.

ROCK BOTTOM? BASKET CASES? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes) There is an idiom we can talk about: BASKET CASE. The term BASKET CASE became widely used in WW 1, a Basket case referred to a soldier so wounded that he had no arms, no legs --- If he ...read more

Scripture: Zechariah 5:5-11, Exodus 2:1-10, 2 Corinthians 11:33

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Between A Rock And A Hard Place Series

Contributed by Chris Appleby on Oct 18, 2000

At the Red Sea Israel disovered that God was at work, using the created order to achieve his purposes - to rescue his people from an impossible situation and bring about a great victory that would be remembered by the Israelites, and others, for all time.

Israel were afraid. A paralysing fear, so great that all they could do was cry out in terror to God. Do you know what that’s like? When things seem so dark and there’s no way out, nothing you can do? When the doctor tells you that you need heart surgery as soon as possible. When the phone rings and ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 14:5-31

Denomination: Anglican

‘solid Rock Or Sinking Sand?’

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 25, 2023

‘Solid Rock or Sinking Sand?’ – Isaiah chapter 28 verses 1-29 – sermon by Gordon Curley (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

SERMON OUTLINE: Jerusalem's scoffers… • drunken leadership • derision of God’s prophet • detachment from God Isaiah’s hope… • foundation stone • God’s chastening SERMON BODY: Ill: • In life we are familiar with what we call an object lesson, • An event or an individual by whose errors ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 28:1-29

Denomination: Brethren

Jesus Is The Way - Our Rock

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Mar 26, 2021

Part 5 of a series looking at how created us in His image, which ultimately leading to the cross.

Jesus is the Way – Our Rock March 28, 2021 What is it that you fully, 100% trust in? Do you trust yourself? Do you trust the economy? Do you trust your family and friends? Do you trust gravity will always work? Do you trust that when you flip the switch, the lights will come on. That when we ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, Romans 10:9-13

Denomination: Baptist

Between A Rock & A Hard Place

Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 7, 2017

When Jacob has to flee Laban, he learns Esau is comming at him with 400 armed men. His schemes have caught up with him as he finds himself between a rock and a hardplace. What was God doing in the situation? What do we do when we find ourselves in a place

Genesis 32:17-31 9/14/14 What do you do when you find yourself between a rock and a hard place? I’m talking about those times in life when there seem to be no good options. Your current job is almost unbearable, but there are no other jobs available—and you do need the paycheck. The people you’re ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:17-31, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 27:41-45

Denomination: Charismatic

Lord Of My Rocking Boat Series

Contributed by Dr. George Calhoun on Oct 25, 2008

If Jesus isn’t Lord before you get in the boat, He can’t be the Lord of your rocking boat.

The super tanker, Edmund Fitzgerald was built in 1958 at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, MI. Possessing an overall length of 729 ft. it was the largest tanker ever to sail the Great Lakes. On Nov. 9, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald left her port in Superior, Wisconsin en route to a ...read more

Scripture: Luke 8:22-25

Denomination: Baptist