Sermons on Englarge Your Tent:

What's Your Focus

Contributed by Mark Bauer on Aug 20, 2007

Do we focus on ourselves or Do we focus on God?

“Magic Eye” pictures You and I have seen them in the Sunday comics and on book counters, These pictures look like a mess of colored dots and lines. Supposedly, if you stare at one long enough a picture will emerge. People either see it or they don’t. Those who see it, … are thrilled. The images ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:13-21

Denomination: Lutheran

Back To Your Future Series

Contributed by Gregg Barbour on Aug 23, 2007

Help students learn to make right choices that will affect their future

Back to your Future!!! Choices 2 gregg barbour. JAM. 8.31.03 Let’s say you wake up tomorrow and there’s a time machine sitting in your driveway!!! Doctor Emmit Brown jumps out of the 1985 DeLorean and says, “(insert name here), you’ve got to come back with me!!!” Back to the Future! Wow! You’ve ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 7:1

Denomination: *other

Loving Your Neighbor

Contributed by Paul Wallace on Dec 6, 2007

We know we should love our neighbor, but how do we practically do it? Let’s look.

Loving Your Neighbor Matthew 22:36-40 Relationships are the key to life. Jesus said all of the commandments of God can be boiled down to just two - Loving God and Loving your neighbor as yourself. By themselves they are too vague for self centered humans to follow. So God expanded them to ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:36-40

Denomination: Wesleyan

What Are Your Commitments?

Contributed by Michael Durst on Dec 6, 2007

A look at the extreme commitment of Ruth, and how we should do likewise.

I have had the privilege of officiated two weddings this summer. Since being ordained last May, I have officiated a total of four weddings, and two of the four have been relatives of my wife. Jen has a big family, and by family I am not referring to brothers and sisters. She only has one ...read more

Scripture: Ruth 1:16-17

Denomination: Holiness

Understanding Your Bible Series

Contributed by Carl Allen on Dec 6, 2007

There is a single concept that can help you more fully understand your Bible. It is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Understanding Your Bible 1 Cor. 15:1-4 Intro For years scholars were baffled by the inscriptions in the Egyptian pyramids. Then in 1799, a soldier in Napoleon’s army found the Rosetta Stone. The stone was marked with inscriptions in Greek and in two Egyptians languages. It became the key to ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

Passion For Your Name

Contributed by J John on Dec 10, 2007

It really is a mystery. How could such a gifted and trusted being as Lucifer (whose very name means ‘light bearer’ or ‘son of the morning’) cause the first church split and take a third of the congregation with him?

SermonCentral Editor’s note: J.John, a Greek Cypriot, has been described as "The Billy Graham of Great Britain," speaking to more than 300,000 people in person each year. He has authored 21 books and has more than one million copies in circulation. You may learn more about his ministry at: ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 28:12-19

Denomination: *other

Bite Your Tongue!

Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 10, 2007

The ability to speak is a wonderful thing, But how we use that ability can often make a tremendous difference in both our own life and the lives of others.

I don’t know how many of you have heard about this this week • Don Imus made a comment that has stirred up the media, and everyone from Hillary Clinton to Oprah Winfrey . • What was happening was the Rutgers women’s basketball team had just lost the NCAA championship game. • And Imus was saying ...read more

Scripture: James 3:1-12

Denomination: Christian Church

Who Is Your Mission? Series

Contributed by Doug Gregory on May 11, 2008

Part two in the series Mission Possible

RECAP: The church is the body of Christ To become a member of the body, you must make Christ the head! We ALL have individual and corporate missions! Our Individual Mission as a Believer is to go, make disciples, baptize, and teach with our life and speech! (Matthew 28:19-20) Our Corporate ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Sitting On Your Grace.

Contributed by Scott Terrell on Sep 19, 2006

Are we fishing or just looking at the water.

Don’t Sit on Your Grace Mark 1:14-22, Galatians 2:17-21 Story has it that Mark Twain loved to go fishing, but he hated to catch fish. The problem was he went fishing to relax. In turn catching any fish would ruin his relaxation. He would have to take off the fish and bait the hook. When ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:14-22

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What Is Your "Shibboleth”?

Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Sep 19, 2006

If the Ephraimites had known in advance what the password was, they would have rehearsed it until they could pronounce it correctly.

WHAT IS YOUR “SHIBBOLETH”? “The Gileadites seized the fords of the Jordan before the Ephraimites arrived. And when any Ephraimite who escaped said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead would say to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No," then they would say to him, "Then say, ...read more

Scripture: Judges 12:5-6

Denomination: Baptist

Your View Of God

Contributed by Danny Rogers on Sep 23, 2006

Your view of God is the most important view you have, and to the extent your view of God is distorted… to that extent your life is out of focus.

Intro: Before Beth and I married, I had to do my own laundry. My technique of washing clothes was just like almost every other single male in the history of the U.S. – Everything in one load if possible. Blue jeans were washed with dress shirts, white socks, underwear, and everything else. In fact, ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Making Your Move Series

Contributed by John Braland on Sep 27, 2006

Risk is always easier to walk through when you feel like the deck is stacked in your favor. It’s easy to gamble a few bucks when you have a few hundred more in your back pocket. It’s easier to risk speaking the truth to a complete stranger than risk tel

Today is part three in my World Poker Tour series and today I need to ask you this question: When is the right time to take a risk? When is it time to move ahead, to step up to the plate, to throw in your cards and go all in? In the first week of this series we talked about going all in. Last ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 1:1-4

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Guard Your Heart

Contributed by Jerry Flury on Sep 28, 2006

Guard your heart above all else for it impacts everything you do

GUARD YOUR HEART PROVERBS 4:20-27 I used to watch Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter on TV whenever I got a chance. So many times I thought for sure he would be fatally bitten by a snake, crushed and killed by a crocodile, or mauled to death by some wild beast. It was a shock and surprise to learn ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:20-27, Proverbs 4:1

Denomination: Baptist

Acecpting Your Calling

Contributed by Larry Breeden on Oct 2, 2006

When God calls you to service, Go!

Accepting Your Calling Rom 11:13 INTRO: A. Paul’s Hebrew background 1. Native Hebrew Ro 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin. 2Co 11:22 Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] ...read more

Scripture: Romans 11:13

Denomination: Baptist

Obey Your Thirst

Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Oct 2, 2006

We can only quench our spiritual thirst by drinking of the living water that is Christ Jesus.

Obey Your Thirst John 4:7-15 February 12, 2006 Dr. Mike Fogerson * Chester’s First Baptist Church, Chester, Illinois Introduction: A D L Moody was once asked why he urged Christians to be filled constantly with the Holy Spirit. 1 "Well," he said, "I need a continual infilling because I leak!" He ...read more

Scripture: John 4:7-15

Denomination: Baptist