In Sermon Illustrations: "bad shepherd"

My Wife And Were Enjoying A Cruise On A Recent ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

My wife and were enjoying a cruise on a recent vacation. At the dinner table that second evening, that dreaded question came up regarding my occupation. (Now I am not ashamed of being a minister, but telling people I am a minister will erect walls that cannot be scaled) I replied that I would tell ...read more

Tags: Sin Bondage To

A Sunday School Teacher Decided To Have Her ...  PRO

Contributed by Paul Shafit on Aug 4, 2007

A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task, but he just couldn’t remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get ...read more

Tags: Grace

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

On The Coast Of Scotland, At The Top Of A Steep ...

Contributed by Betty Johnson on Aug 18, 2008

On the coast of Scotland, at the top of a steep and dangerous cliff there stood a little company of rescuers planning how they might let someone down over the edge in order to search for the one who was lost and to take a rope to him. They wanted to use a small shepherd boy who was used to the ...read more

Tags: Trust

Denomination: Wesleyan

Too Much ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008

TOO MUCH TROUBLE A site foreman had ten very lazy men working for him, so one day he decided to trick them into doing some work for a change. "I’ve got a really easy job today for the laziest one among you," he announced. "Will the laziest man please put his hand up." Nine hands went up. "Why ...read more

Tags: Servanthood

My Wife And Were Enjoying A Cruise On A Recent ...  PRO

Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 30, 2007

My wife and were enjoying a cruise on a recent vacation. At the dinner table that second evening, that dreaded question came up regarding my occupation. (Now I am not ashamed of being a minister, but telling people I am a minister will erect walls that cannot be scaled) I replied that I would ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Creative Minds Have Always Been Known To Survive ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Creative minds have always been known to survive any ...read more

Tags: Art

Ever Once In A While Some Feller Without A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Ever once in a while some feller without a single bad ...read more

Tags: Character

Good Manners Sometimes Means Simply Putting Up ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other ...read more

Tags: Hospitality

A Woman Drove Her Pickup Truck To The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

A woman drove her pickup truck to the fairgrounds pulling a horse trailer. She was trying to back into a space. On one side was a ditch and it was a very narrow space she was trying to back into. She would pull up and then back up. Soon people began to stand around watching her. She was getting ...read more

Tags: God's Omnipotence

Vance Havner Said, "At The Nicene Council, An ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Vance Havner said, "At the Nicene Council, an important church meeting in the 4th century A.D., of the 318 delegates attending, fewer than 12 had not lost an eye or lost a hand or did not limp on a leg lamed by torture for their Christian faith." Oswald Chambers in Christian Discipline said, ...read more

Tags: Discipleship

The Lost Sheep—communion Meditation  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 25, 2004

THE LOST SHEEP- COMMUNION MEDITATION Have you heard the story of Shrek, the merino sheep that had evaded capture and shearing for 6 years? When he was finally discovered in his high mountain cave of New Zealand by musterer Ann Scanlan, he was almost unrecognizable as a sheep. The first thing his ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:1-10, 1 Peter 2:24-25

Tags: Lord's Supper, Parable Lost Sheep

Guidance In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009

GUIDANCE IN LIFE It makes a difference who your leader is! When we were kids going on summer vacation, I don’t ever remember my dad getting lost. -- But Eric Ritz writes: When I was a young boy, our family always vacationed together. It was my mother and father and five kids in an old Ford Falcon ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 1:1-33

Tags: Wisdom

Conscience Is The Small Clear Voice Deep Down ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Conscience is the small clear voice deep down inside of you, where the ...read more

Tags: Character

If We Want To Go Somewhere Intensely Enough, We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If we want to go somewhere intensely enough, we call the ...read more

Tags: Creation

Children, Like Dogs, Have So Sharp A Scent That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Children, like dogs, have so sharp a scent that they detect everythingthe ...read more

Tags: Children

Give To A Pig When It Grunts And To A Child ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Give to a pig when it grunts and to a child when it cries, and youll have a ...read more

Tags: Children

Your Wife Needs To Hear Your Heart, She Already ...

Contributed by Mike Gilbert on Jan 30, 2008

Your wife needs to hear your heart, she already knows your ...read more

Tags: Cabbage

Denomination: Baptist

Ready For More Good  PRO

Contributed by S Henriques on Jan 27, 2003

READY FOR MORE GOOD God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn’t do good to his children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and he never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going "bad" that does not ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God, Knowing God's Will, God's Provision

Denomination: Baptist

Simpson's Cocoa Powder

Contributed by Jason Albertson on Nov 8, 2014

There was a little boy once who was reading an advertisement for Simpson’s cocoa powder and asked his mother, “Mom, what does ‘100% pure’ mean?” “It means completely clean, with nothing bad in it.” Later, as she knelt by him as he prayed before going to bed, she heard him say the words, “Dear ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:8

Tags: Purity, Personal Holiness

Denomination: Methodist

Little Pigs, Little Pigs Let Me In. Not By The ...

Contributed by Matthew Koscielski on Jun 23, 2007

Little pigs, little pigs let me in. Not by the hair of our chiny, chin, chin. Then I’ll huff and puff and blow your house in. So the big bad wolf huffed and puffed, and blew the house of the second pig in. So off they ran......... I give you this question. “My little pigs, when the Big Bad Wolf, ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational