Sermons on Shepherds
John 10:1-30
SERIES: The Gospel of John A Shepherd and His Sheep SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: There are over 160 different animals mentioned in the Bible—from mountain goats to wild donkeys, from the ostrich to the hawk, from the hippopotamus to the crocodile. Many of the animals are used to illustrate human characteristics. But the animal imagery God uses more often than any other to describe His people is that of the sheep, and that is because people and sheep bear many similarities. Both are…
Luke 2:1-20
God’s Answer to the Green Book Introduction: Let’s begin today by reading from the second chapter of Luke, verses 1-20: In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because…
Hebrews 13:7-25
Many years ago Allen Funt took his Candid Camera television show to an elite prep school out East, posing as a vocational guidance counselor. Most of the students in this school anticipated being college presidents, bank presidents, or famous corporate lawyers. The producer called the young men in one by one to give them the results of the vocational test they had taken, secretly filming their reactions. A very fine young senior came in, veritably trembling with anticipation of the result of…