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1. An Identity Crisis

Sermon

James Bjorge

... faith is implicit in that we have lost our original state. Figuratively speaking we were made to be tigers and we are living like goats. And it bugs us for there is something inside us that makes us discontented with our goathood. The grass never really fills us. We bleat well but we have a suspicion we were made for roaring. Now what happens if a real honest to goodness tiger comes on the scene? One of two things. We can become embarrassed when we see what we were meant to be for we have fallen so far ...

2. Resurrection: From Sin to a Second Chance

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... heavy, weighted rod at his belt. If he needed a weapon in this darkness, his sling would be of little use. He felt his way through the dark ravine with his staff. He no longer needed the trail-signs to guide him for he could hear Ayin’s frightened bleating and the lamb’s weaker cry. The shepherd boy knew that the sound of his voice would frighten the big ram, so he reached out with the crook of his staff and caught Ayin around the neck turning him around. Then holding Ayin securely the boy felt for the ...

3. Playing A Role Or Being A Truth

Matthew 16:21-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... Christna tells the, a kind of fable of a motherless tiger cub who was adopted by goats and raised by them to eat grass and bleat as they did. It wasn’t long before the tiger cub came to think of himself as a goat. But one day a magnificent king tiger ... came along and asked the cub what he meant by all this masquerade and all the cub could do in response was to bleat nervously and nibble on the grass. So the king tiger carried the cub over to a pool where he forced him to look at their two ...

4. The Lord Is (More Than) My Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

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King Duncan

... guide took a baby lamb from its pen and placed it with thousands of other sheep where the noise of their bleating and the shouting of the shearers was absolutely deafening. The animal, which had not yet been weaned, looking dazed, remained still ... her, the old ewe rushed to meet it as if no other sheep were present. Amid the noise and confusion she still heard the pitiful bleating of her own frightened offspring. (7) If a dumb sheep can be that attentive to her offspring, do you think that you and I can ...

5. The Road to the Passover

John 2:13-22

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Timothy W. Ayers

... Lemuel prepared themselves in the mikveh (mick-va) pool. Once they were cleansed, the two walked back toward the fenced-in lambs but Samuel was distracted. People were running from the temple porches into the dirty courtyard. Behind them were lambs racing to freedom, their bleating was loud. He saw doves rising into the air. The sound of wooden tables crashing to the ground followed by the clanging of coins being strewn across the stone porches reached his ear only a moment before he saw the figure of a man ...

6. The Tiger At The Edge

John 21:1-14

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... tiger that is brought up with a herd of goats. From the day his eyes opened all he saw was a goat's life, so it became his style of life, too. The tiger munched grass with the rest, butted heads with the younger goats for recreation, and learned to bleat in an odd sort of way a sound that resembled, or so he thought, a goat's voice. Once in a while there was a nagging voice inside him that said, " You don't belong to this life!" But always, he put it aside as fantasy, some disturbing intrusion from ...

7. What Really Happened Christmas Day

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... offering thatSunday. Luke 2:8-20 "It's almost dawn and they still aren't back," Matthalmumbled to himself. The sheep were beginning to stir andhe'd have his hands full trying to keep them together if theshepherds didn't get back pretty soon. A lamb bleated on the far side of the flock. Matthalstrained to see what had startled it. "The wolves areusually bedded down by now," he thought to himself. Then herealized that the road to Bethlehem lay just beyond wherethe sound came from. "Just in time! They're back ...

8. The Warrior And The Shepherd Are One!

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... as a shepherd. The Divine Warrior is also the caring shepherd who watches over the vulnerable sheep. The ethical responsibilities of a shepherd are enormous. Sheep are the most helpless of creatures. A mother sheep will not move over a few feet to allow her bleating lamb to nurse. Often the shepherd must physically lift the lamb and carry it over to its mother to nurse. Sheep are so easily frightened that they will not drink from a flowing stream because of the noise it makes. The caring shepherd must dip ...

9. What Really Happened Christmas Day

Luke 2:8-20

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Jerry Eckert

... that Sunday. Luke 2:8-20 "It's almost dawn and they still aren't back," Matthal mumbled to himself. The sheep were beginning to stir and he'd have his hands full trying to keep them together if the shepherds didn't get back pretty soon. A lamb bleated on the far side of the flock. Matthal strained to see what had startled it. "The wolves are usually bedded down by now," he thought to himself. Then he realized that the road to Bethlehem lay just beyond where the sound came from. "Just in time! They're back ...

10. What "They" Say

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... last time before answering. (3) Do not claim Jesus as Lord while clinging to some false security. Norman Vincent Peale has observed, "It is curious and sad the way much of the intellectual climate has changed. Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security." In the absence of security, confidence and a sense of well-being go begging. We have a low tolerance for insecurity. Frankly, there is only one thing worse than insecurity and that is false security, especially if one is not ...

11. The Highway to Peace

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

Christmas Eve/Day • Christmas Eve/Day Only the bleat of a lamb could be heard through the quiet of the night. Across the treeless grazing land a soft breeze kissed the warm earth. Within a secluded nook a herd of sheep were dozing while on a mound only a few feet away a group of men slumbered calmly. The ...

12. Dodging the Thrust

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... it had died. The shepherds were experts at tracking and could follow the footprints of a straying sheep a long way. It was often part of the day’s work for a shepherd to risk his life for the sheep. A straying sheep could lose its landmarks and bleat helplessly at the edge of a precipice. Another example: it would be easy to lose a coin in most Palestinian homes of that day. Most of the houses were dark. The floors were beaten earth covered with dried reeds and rushes. It was easy to lose a coin. Perhaps ...

13. The Eighth Son

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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... set off for a little village called Bethlehem. The City of Bread. The city of Ruth and Boaz. The city where Jesse had grown rich through his vast pasture and flocks of sheep and cattle. Samuel and his entourage arrived in town on market day. The bleat of sheep, the squawk of geese, and the chirps of hens heralded their arrival. Samuel was viewed as the holiest man in Israel. His arrival in a city was an important event. Townspeople quickly gathered around the bearded prophet. He announced that the reason he ...

14. First Encounters

1 Samuel 16:14-23

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... write his brilliant "Goldberg Variations" for a rich patron who wanted him to quiet his nerves at bedtime. But then Bach had not even practiced his scales. David was scaling the charts of fame as he starred in all the local clubs. His voice had soothed the bleat of sheep, while his lyre had struck up a jolly tune for maidens’ dancing feet. God was with the shepherd meeting the sovereign. God is with the Daniel in all of our souls facing the lions of worry, loneliness, and death. He was with his Son in ...

15. Bound for Glory

1 Samuel 25:1-44

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... Beast. The beastly brute is Nabal. A grumpy geezer. A gentleman farmer whose grasp for gold was only exceeded by his grasp for Mogen David. His eyes gazed over the greenly robed spring fields as he saw his herds of sheep gently grazing. His ears heard the bleat of sheep as nine pounds of wool was removed from their fat lamb shoulders. His nose caught the fragrant smell of rich foods placed on his teeming table by servants forced to work for a Simon Legree whip-cracking master. A few miles south of Hebron in ...

16. Faces of the Nation

2 Samuel 19:9-43

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... a world in which everyone went headless, a la the headless horseman, terrifying an Ichabod Crane one dark and windy colonial Halloween. Israel was a headless horseman. She had no captain to guide her ship of state through the stormy seas. Like sheep gone astray, she bleated a fearful cry. Vainly she looked for a shepherd to guide her through the dark valleys of death into the sun-speckled highlands of hope. Absalom’s pied piper’s promise of gold had led the nation to the black abyss of death. She had ...

17. A Better Than Perfect Christmas

Philippians 4:4

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The pastor’s wife, wiping tears from her eyes, said, "You know, that may well be what Joseph actually said." The former director had a look which said "I-told-you-so." When SILENT NIGHT was sung, a couple of magical things happened. First, the sheep bleated their way down a side aisle and sat in the pews to watch the conclusion of the pageant and the former director was surrounded by the children she before had excluded! Second, snow began to fall, and the entire church became very quiet. It wasn’t ...

18. Thankless Jobs

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... shepherd. And that is the most familiar image we have of Christ ” a shepherd holding a lamb in his arms. How sweet ” how tender. But a lamb is not a full-grown sheep. Its wool is not wet and matted. It isn't caught in a crevasse. It is not bleating for the shepherd to come to its rescue. OF COURSE THERE IS A CERTAIN BONDING THAT TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. Jesus put it this way: "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads ...

19. Surprised Sheep And Graceless Goats

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Stan Meade

... wander off into the rocks and get into places where they couldn't get out. The grass on these mountains is very sweet, and the sheep like it. They will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then, they can't jump back up again. The shepherd will hear them bleating in distress. They may be there for days, until they have eaten all the grass. The shepherd will wait until they are so faint that they cannot stand, and then he will put a rope around him and pull that sheep up out of the jaws of death. "Why don ...

20. Holy Monday

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of Europe, with worshippers and sight-seers mingling together in mass confusion. But not all the Gentiles came to sight-see. Many came with deep longings in their souls to worship and pray. But in all that uproar of buying and selling, braying and bleating of animals, and pigeon-droppings, it was hard for them to do so. There was even an inscription between the Court of the Gentiles and the inner courts which said: “No stranger is to enter within the balustrade... Whoever is caught will be answerable ...

21. A Trip to God's Woodshed

Hebrews 12: 5-11

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James Merritt

... want to remind you of something that the great Nazarene preacher, "Uncle Buddy" Robinson, said. He said: "If the Lord is your Shepherd, then you are the Lord's sheep, and He has a perfect right to shear you any time He needs wool and you have no right to bleat." c. You Can Receive It The word "endure" in v.7 literally means "to accept" or "to receive." You see, when trouble comes into your life, you need to ask the question: "Why is this happening to me?" Or, "Lord, what are you trying to teach me?" For the ...

22. He's Everything I Need

Psalm 23:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... look the same. But did you know they don’t look the same to a shepherd? I was reading how a good shepherd can locate one sheep out of a flock of 2,500 in less than five minutes, by the way he holds his head, by the way he bleats, by the way he walks. He can even look at the ground where they have been laying down and tell by the condition of the grass or by the droppings they leave behind, or by drops of blood, or even by one look in their eyes if they are sick ...

23. His Way is the Right Way

Psalm 23:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... stretch out and relax, and suddenly the center of gravity in the body shifts so that it turns on its back far enough that the feet can no longer touch the ground. At this point the sheep becomes very frightened. It begins to kick and flail, it bleats and it cries out. It is frightened because it knows it’s opened to attack. Buzzards, vultures, dogs, coyotes, and cougars all know that a cast sheep is easy prey, and just waiting to be killed. As it lies there on its back struggling, gasses begin to collect ...

24. Me, Myself and God

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... t shake off these flies by their hooves or their tail, and they’ll do anything they can to get rid of these flies. Sometimes you will see a sheep banging its head against a rock because he’s going crazy from the flies. He will run, he will bleat, but nothing works. Now if the sheep gets no relief, he becomes so bothered and irritated by the flies, that he will quit eating. He then begins to lose weight, he then stops growing, and eventually he will die. So what does the shepherd do? The shepherd anoints ...

25. Christ’s Twin

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... -looking goat. One day a king tiger appeared and all the goats scattered in fear. Except the young tiger who was left alone, afraid, and yet somehow unafraid. The king tiger asked him what was meant by this masquerade. But all the young tiger could do was bleat nervously and eat grass. So the king carried him to a pool, and forced the young tiger to look at their reflected images. Side by side, the truth became clear in their reflected images. Lashing his tail, and digging his claws in the ground, the young ...

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