SERMONS ON SHEPHERDS
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Christmas Characters: Shepherds (3 of 6)
by Jerry Vines
When Jesus was born representative groups came to attend His birth. There were Simeon and Anna who were the devout believers who represents spiritual -minded people who come to the birth of the Lord Jesus. The wise men came when Jesus was born. They remind us that studious people come to the Lord Jesus Christ. The keenest minds of all of the ages have been those who have humbly bowed at the manger of the Lord Jesus Christ. The shepherds came and they represent the simple, common, ordinary people who are drawn to this baby Jesus who is born in Bethlehem's manger. Life for the...
Shepherds Who Lost Their Jobs at Christmas
by Ken Trivette
Getting laid off from your job is bad, but even worse is to lose your job around Christmas time. A few headlines I came across this past week read, ''No Christmas Parade Due to Pending Layoffs,'' ''Holiday layoffs are Adding Up,'' ''Walt Disney World is planning layoffs this holiday season,'' and ''Holiday cheer damped by layoffs.'' Again, there could be no worse time to lose your job than at Christmas. I wonder if you are aware that in the familiar Christmas story before us in Luke, we find a group of shepherds that lost their job at Christmas. Actually, they lost their job because of Christmas. We are familiar with...
When Shepherds Become Sheep and a Lamb Becomes a Shepherd! (1 of 2)
by Dennis Marquardt
INTRO: A clear night sky, peaceful shepherds watching over their flocks at night, a peaceful town called Bethlehem at the outskirts of the big city Jerusalem, joyful angels singing with beloved shepherds below listening, a kind of holiday atmosphere everywhere, Joseph and Mary lying comfortably next to the baby Jesus on a bed of straw while animals peacefully stroll around, the world is full of joy ... and ... and ... WAIT A MINUTE! This isn't the real story of the times, this is 21st century Christmas pageant stuff, the real story and the real world of that day was more like this: * terrible political unrest...
Lessons from the Shepherds (2 of 3)
by Jerry Watts
What do you think of when you hear these words ''THE DRAFT?'' Some think of the draft which takes place every year in sports as college athletes are ''drafted'' into the pros. Think about it; these top level athletes don't particularly get to decide ''where'' they play, they are drafted. In this same line of thinking, when we hear the word ''draft'', many of us will think of the ''Selective Service'', which calls young men to serve their country. Again, when drafted-they do not get a huge choice about where to go and what to do, they are drafted into service. As we have read our scripture today, we have certainly discovered a group...
The Shepherds Take
by Duane Bemis
Verse 8: Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Shepherds: The occupation of the Shepherd was the lowest position. There were people who had much and people who had little and the smelly shepherds where below them all. Yet, the creator of the Heavens chose to reveal Himself to them. Why? Because the Lord is the Lord of all both the great and the small. These are the smallest in man's eyes but they are great in the eyes of God. So too are you my friend. You are special and this same Jesus comes to you tonight and says, ''Come and...
Bethlehem's Best - The Shepherd's Song (2 of 5)
by Donald Cantrell
In this awesome story we find one of the most stunning events to be found in the entire bible. I honestly think that many never even give it a second thought, the events that happened outside the fields of Bethlehem. On the night that God was going to proclaim the birth of his Son, the Savior of mankind, the Gift of Eternal Life, let us consider whom he chose to be his spokesman. In the fields outside of Bethlehem were various groups of ostracized shepherds. Society had a distinct distaste for these men due to their occupation. The shepherds were men that had notorious reputations for pilfering and dipping into the coffers as they traveled from...
The Shepherds and the Savior: Back to the Daily Grind (1 of 12)
by Brian Fletcher
Intro: Have you ever seen something spectacular? Something that you had a hard time believing that you were seeing? Maybe you've seen the Grand Canyon, Andrew talks about standing next to the giant sequoia trees in California. How about a couple of weeks ago on Dec. 12th, did anyone notice how big the moon was that night? It hasn't happened since March 8, 1993 and won't happen again until November 2016. It was full and it was absolutely huge. I could hardly believe what I was seeing, it looked like something out of a Sci-Fi movie, yet it was truly real and a wonderful display of the glory of God. Well this...
The Shepherd's Story (4 of 4)
by Fred Lowery
OK. We're in Luke 2 this morning. Ky was just showing me on his phone how we're - we're working out something where you can go use UVersion which is my favorite on my Iphone and you can follow the Scripture with your Iphone but if you just have your copy of the Scripture, I'd like you to turn to Luke 2. That's where we are this morning. You know many people think that the Old Testament ended on Friday and the New Testament started the following Monday morning. But it didn't happen that way. There was 400 years of silence between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Heaven, imagine that, silent for...
A Savior Is Born: A Shepherd's Story
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: This is the shepherds' view of the Christmas events. Our biblical text summarized what happened that night. What would it have been like to have been one of those men? The following is an exercise of the imagination. We don't know what became of the shepherds. It could easily have been like this. The time: It is about eighteen months after the birth of Jesus. Augustus Caesar reigns from Rome. Quirinius remains the appointed governor for Syria. Herod, the Jewish despot, occupies the royal palace in Jerusalem, but not for long and not without careful oversight from Rome. The Place: The interrogation...
Have You Heard the Good News?
by Jerry Branch
Read passage 2000 plus years ago, here were these guys standing out in some pasture, in the middle of the night, and suddenly this angel of the Lord comes on the scene. I'll bet they came to their full senses in about one heartbeat. I remember walking guard duty while I was in Army boot camp. It was dark as it could be, and our guard detail was walking around a bunch of old empty buildings at Indian Town Gap, PA...that was my first real encounter with PA...but as I was walking around the dark buildings I was assigned to guard (who knows why we were guarding empty buildings for anyway, but that was our job...
Cliff Diving Sheep and the Shepherd Who Can Save Them
by Robert Dawson
Every morning when we wake up we are faced with a decision that holds great risk for us, the decision to get out of bed or not. Many of us would vote for the ''or not.'' When we wake up, roll out of bed and walk out the door we are taking a great risk because we do not know what that day holds, almost anything can happen. Each day offers us the mundane and the routine or it may shower us with the unexpected which is what a group of shepherds in Gevas, Turkey discovered. Their day started like every other day. They were eating breakfast with other shepherds as their sheep hung out together grazing on the hillside when...
The Good Shepherd (6 of 11)
by Ernest Easley
What is it in your life today that has your stomach tied up in knots and your life full of worry? What are you worried about right now? Now answer me this: Have you ever had a trouble or problem solved or strengthened by worry? You may feel like the person who told his friend, ''Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.'' Well, he's half right. After an extensive study on worry, Dr. A. J. Cronin sorted it out this way: Things which never happen: 40% Things in the past that cannot be changed: 30%. Needless health worries: 12%. Petty Miscellaneous worries: 10%. Real...
The Shepherd And His Sheep
by Adrian Rogers
Turn to First Peter now, chapter five and we're going to read the first four verses. Now, you will remember that we have been preaching through First Peter and we come almost to the conclusion of First Peter but I like is so well, I'm going to go right on with Second Peter when we finish First Peter I believe. First Peter chapter five, the first four verses THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. "The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed, feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof not...
A Shepherd's Song for Stressful Times
by Robert Walker
Philip Crosby, in his book March Till They Die, gives an account of a forced march which American and European soldiers who had been captured, and became prisoners of war, had to endure in Korea. It was November of 1950, and the North Koreans were being pushed north. As they went, they forced the American and European prisoners to go with them. It was a terrible march. They were driven as far as twenty miles a day at times, though it was cold and they were emaciated, hungry, suffering. When prisoners who couldn't keep up would fall back, shots would ring out. They were executed on the spot. Crosby and...
The Shepherd And His Sheep
by James Merritt
Peter is writing to a beleaguered church beset by woes, persecutions, tribulations and trials. When the hammer of satanic oppression and demonic opposition continues to pound away at a church, it is so easy for a church to get disconsolate and discouraged. Peter takes a time out here for the pastors of the church and says, "I have a special word for you. No one else can be your pastor, so I will be your pastor." Then he says a word about pastors to pastors but he says it within earshot of the church. You see Peter here describes the pastor and his people as a shepherd over a flock of sheep. You know the Bible says...
Christ, Our Shepherd
by Jesse Hendley
If you have your Bibles now, I want you to turn with me to John, chapter 10. We have been studying God as the Shepherd of Israel. We read that in Ezekiel 34:11-16. God is the Shepherd of Israel, and if you will read chapters 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39, you'll read many wonderful things about Israel, her future, and the fact that God is going to shepherd them and bring them back into His land and feed them, and they will have a revival and He will reunite the two different groups of Israel (the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah) and they will become one kingdom again. He will put over them Jesus...
The Good Shepherd (20 of 34)
by Zach Terry
INTRODUCTION: One might be tempted to think that a preacher always deals with those topics and situations that a congregation is most curious about. At times that is absolutely true - but I agree with Dr. Vines who said, "The job of the man of God is not to answer the questions that people are asking, but those that they should be asking." That is a good statement with which to begin our study this morning. You see - A series on suffering may not be the most helpful thing when you are in the midst of a crisis. As a matter of fact it may do more harm than good. What you need is a shoulder to cry on - we are to weep...
Heart Of A Shepherd (7 of 13)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: I once read the story about a 1st-grader stood in front of his classroom. The class had been taking turns in front of the room answering the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" This little boy stood up and said, "I'm going to be a lion tamer and have lots of fierce lions and tigers. I'll walk into the cage and they will growl and roar." Then he paused for a moment and added, "But of course, I'll have my mommy with me." APPLY: That little boy had been to the circus and he'd watched a lion tamer enter a cage full of ferocious lions and tigers. He'd been impressed with how brave and in control that...
My Shepherd (7 of 8)
by Jeff Schreve
The blonde was tired of all the blonde jokes. And some of you might be tired of blond jokes and you say "Where do you get off telling a blond joke to start off your sermon?" I used to be a blond (Laugher) so I can tell you a blond joke. Well this blond she got tired of it and so what she did was dyed her hair brown so that people wouldn't say things about her and she wouldn't feel part of those jokes. She was driving one day and she got to part of this road and she saw a shepherd leading his sheep across the road. So she slowed down and she was admiring the sheep and she struck up a conversation with the shepherd...
