based on 14 ratings
| 3,611 views
WHO CALLS MY NAME?
Bob Crabtree, AG Superintendent of Ohio, tells while in the USSR, he saw two shepherds come together in the middle of the road. They had 300 sheep all become one group. He had to wait as the shepherds talked. Finally, Bob wondered how would they ever separate all those sheep.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
based on 5 ratings
| 1,929 views
BRANDED
Phillip Keller wrote in his book “A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm,” about buying his first thirty sheep. He wrote: “Each shepherd has his own distinctive earmark which he cuts into one of the ears of his sheep. In this way, even at a distance, it is easy to determine to whom the sheep
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
based on 20 ratings
| 3,365 views
NOTHING ELSE
In his book, I Shall Not Want, Robert Ketchum tells about a Sunday school teacher who asked her group of children if any of them could quote the entire twenty-third psalm. A little four-and-a-half-year-old girl was among those who raised their hands. A bit skeptical, the teacher
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
based on 3 ratings
| 5,046 views
A "CAST" SHEEP
There is an Old English shepherd’s term called a "cast" sheep. This is a sheep that has turned over on its back and can’t get back up again. It happens frequently. And when it happens, all the sheep can do is lie on its back, with its feet flaying frantically in the air. Sometimes
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 15, 2003
based on 27 ratings
| 6,864 views
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD- COMMUNION MEDITATION
The 23rd Psalm is a beautiful passage of scripture to use when celebrating communion. It describes in detail what the Good Shepherd does for us. He provides for us, comforts us, heals us, restores us, feeds us, and protects us.
And if that were
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 9, 2002
based on 31 ratings
| 3,909 views
LISTEN CAREFULLY
Back when the telegraph was the fastest method of long-distance communication, a young man applied for a job as a Morse Code operator. Answering an ad in the newspaper, he went to the office that was listed. When he arrived, he entered a large, busy office filled with noise and
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
based on 5 ratings
| 5,561 views
GUARDED BY THE SHEPHERD
Charles Spurgeon says this about the Great Shepherd:
What is there in you, dear friend, more than there is in any other professor, why you should not prove an apostate after all? What is there about me that I should stand where so many others have fallen?
There is
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Nov 2, 2007
Illustration Daring to Act
It is not the critic who counts, not the person who points out where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
based on 9 ratings
| 6,596 views
WANDERING OFF
Dr. Andrew Bonar told me how, in the Highlands of Scotland, a sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get into places that they couldn’t get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then they
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2003
based on 3 ratings
| 2,340 views
ONE ACT OF BRAVERY
A firefighter performs one act of bravery in his career, and that’s when he takes the oath of office, after that, everything else is in the line of duty.
SOURCE: Special Operation’s Chief John Moran,
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2010
LISTENERS MUST ACT
The address is not given for the speaker’s sake, in order that men may praise or blame him. The listener’s repetition of it is what is aimed at. If the speaker has the responsibility for what he whispers, then the listener has an equally great responsibility not to fall short in
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
FAITH IS A CONTINUED ACT
Charles Spurgeon, known as "The Prince of Preachers," said, "The faith which saves is not one single act done and ended on a certain day: it is an act
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Apr 9, 2008
A U.S. Lutheran bishop tells of visiting a parish church in California and finding a stirring red and orange banner on the wall. “Come Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!” it declared in words printed under a picture of a fire burning. The bishop was also interested in the sign directly underneath the banner
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Apr 9, 2008
In 1904 the Atlanta newspapers reported an amazing revival of prayer sweeping the city. On November 2nd the Supreme Court of Georgia closed so people could attend prayer meetings. Stores, factories, offices and even saloons followed suit. "For two hours at midday all Denver was held in a spell . .
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Apr 9, 2008
based on 1 rating
| 2,372 views
In 1936 revival fires broke out on the campus of Wheaton College west of Chicago. A senior named Don Hillis arose in chapel to voice a plea for revival. Students responded with an all-day prayer meeting on Saturday. Both faculty and students confessed sin and made things right with one another.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational