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  • My Sheep Know My Voice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
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    MY SHEEP KNOW MY VOICE Do you all know much about Emperor Penguins? I was not very familiar with these birds until a few years ago when the documentary, March of the Penguins, came out. And as I watched this documentary, I learned many intriguing facts about this largest of the penguin family. ...read more

  • The Lukewarm Sheep  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 29, 2011
    based on 11 ratings
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    THE LUKEWARM SHEEP Now, for the sake of my illustration, I want to break a flock of sheep down into 3 groups. 1. The first group of sheep had DECIDED to look to Shepherd & follow Him wherever He leads. These are the "Good sheep" who follow the "Good Shepherd. Jesus said: "My sheep hear my voice, ...read more

  • The Shepherd's Voice

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2012
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    THE SHEPHERD'S VOICE If you know and follow Jesus as Shepherd you will be able to flee from untruth and ungodly belief systems. D.L. Moody told the following: A friend, who was traveling in the East, heard that there was a shepherd who still kept up the custom of calling his sheep by name. He ...read more

  • Phillip Keller Writes Of His Experience Of ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 29, 2009
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    Phillip Keller writes of his experience of shepherding: "This reminds me of my encounter with cougars. On several occasions these cunning creatures came in among sheep, creating great havoc in the flock. Some were killed, their blood drained and livers eaten. Others were torn open and badly ...read more

  • Shrek The Sheep Survives 6 Years In New Zealand ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
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    Shrek the Sheep Survives 6 Years in New Zealand Cave Do we need a savior – the story of Shrek the Sheep 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 ...read more

  • Traveling Couple Misspells Destination In Gps And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
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    Traveling Couple Misspells Destination in GPS and Ends Up in Wrong Place Last July the BBC news reported on how a couple from Sweden typed Carpi into their GPS when they meant Capri. Their GPS did what it was suppose to and took them 400 miles off course. A tourism official in Carpi said, "Capri is ...read more

  • Minister Runs Ad In Local Paper To Invite ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2009
     | 5,968 views

    Minister Runs Ad in Local Paper to Invite Straying Sheep Back into the Fold A few years ago I was reading a book by Stephen Gaukroger. He tells the story of a New York Methodist minister who saw the need to bring his ‘ninety nine righteous’ sheep back into the fold. He put an advert in the local ...read more

  • A Modern Parable Of The Unforgiving Slave  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 19, 2006
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    A Modern Parable of the Unforgiving Slave: A bank owner wanted to settle an overdo account with a farmer who owed him several million dollars, so he called him and asked him to come to his office. As the two discussed the situation it became apparent that the farmer couldn’t even meet the monthly ...read more

  • Lost Forever

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2004
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    An Englishman once remarked: You need not tell me there is no hell, for I already feel my soul slipping into its fires! Wretches, cease your idle talk about there being hope for me! I know I am lost ...read more

  • Lost In Wonder

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Quote: 4819 When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I’m lost In wonder, ...read more

  • Identify With The Lost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    IDENTIFY WITH THE LOST In her famous book and film, "The Hiding Place" Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people. Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the ...read more

  • Heart For The Lost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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    HEART FOR THE LOST Throughout history, believers have had this heart for the lost. John Knox, for example, reflected Paul’s sorrow for his people when he said, "O God! Give me Scotland or I die!" David Brainerd, the great missionary to the North American Indians in the early years of the 18th ...read more

  • Praying For The Lost

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Mar 15, 2010
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    PRAYING FOR THE LOST Lee Thomas is a great teacher on praying for the lost. Here’s part of a testimony from his book: When we begin to pray for someone’s salvation, God seems to draw a circle around that individual and then gets in the circle with him. That is what happened to Ricky Gresham when ...read more

  • Lost At The Corner

    Contributed by Merv Budd on May 10, 2011
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    LOST AT THE CORNER At a 1999 conference in Houston, speaker Marti Ensign, a missionary to Africa, told of bringing some African pastors to the United States for a big meeting. During their free time, these Africans wanted to go shopping. Even though they were in a small town, Marti knew there was ...read more

  • Lost In The Noise

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 2, 2012
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    LOST IN THE NOISE A youth pastor wanted to illustrate something to his students. He placed some valuable objects on small tables around the room. On one of the tables was a Bible. There was a $5 bill on another table. There was a kids' meal from a fast-food restaurant on one table. Other tables ...read more

  • Compassion For The Lost

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Nov 9, 2018
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    D.L. Moody told the story of his conversion this way: “When I was in Boston I used to attend a Sunday school class, and one day I recollect my teacher came around behind the counter of the shop I was at work in, and put his hand upon my shoulder, and talked to me about Christ and my soul. I had not ...read more

  • Lost Sheep

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Aug 9, 2019
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    When the sheep strayed, the shepherd left the 99 and searched for the lost one. I was that lost sheep, I got saved at an early age, and loved the lord with all my heart. Everything was great in my life, I married the girl of my dreams, then my world fell apart. In 1968, I got a letter from ...read more

  • Death Of The Son

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 4, 2004
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    DEATH OF THE SON There is an old story about a man by the name of John Griffith, who lived in Oklahoma in 1929 and lost all he had in the stock market. He moved to Mississippi where he took a job as bridge tender for a railroad trestle. In 1937 he was involved in a horrific accident. One day his 8 ...read more

  • Robert Robinson Had Been Saved Out Of A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Robert Robinson had been saved out of a tempestuous life of sin through George Whitfield’s ministry in England. Shortly after that, at the age of twenty-three, Robinson wrote the hymn Come, Thou Fount. Come, Thou Fount of ev’ry blessing, Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest ...read more

  • When Wealth Is Lost, Nothing Is Lost; When ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
     | 2,105 views

    “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is ...read more