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I love your metaphor. How wonderful it is for us to know the shepherd who leads even though we do not necessarily know at any particular time where he is leading. How wonderful also to have the mind o ...

Sacrificial death of self manifests itself in strange and unforeseen ways. As I prayed for a friend this morning I envisioned that person struggling with understanding and reconciling personal difficu ...

I just finished writing a mini commentary on the cultural and historical background for the parable of the teaching on the cost of discipleship from Luke 14:25-35. It is a project to go along with the ...

O can I ever relate to that! I was an only daughter among four brothers...and then became the black sheep of the family. I got so lost that the Lord himself came to find me and direct me apart from an ...

Thanks for your reminder and definition regarding imagination. Having come from the 60's drug culture I tend to define imagination as the antithesis to reality. Yet living in God's reality is certainl ...

This morning I was reminded that sometimes the places in our lives can be so overwhelming, so crushing, that all we can do is pluck at the 'notes' or bang away in frustration. Maybe even simply stare ...

Home - to me that conjures up the idea of stability. We (my family) have not lived in the same house at any one period for more that four years since 1989. We've lived in three different houses since ...

R.C. Sproul's publication, Tabletalk, had an interesting reading for today. Apparently diplomas are often referred to as "sheepskins" because this is what they were originally printed on. Dr ...

This chapter was a wonderful exhortation to each of us to employ all three methods of leading in our leadership. Jesus is our perfect example: sometimes leading us tenderly by our side, sometimes stra ...

I was recently working on some background info in Luke 12:35-48, the parable of the coming of the Son of Man. Having just read the first chapter of While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks (for the third ti ...

All this talk of what we ought to be feeding the flock and the fact that in so many 'seeker' churches the 'food' is easy to reach and partly digested, and the problem with getting people to reach for ...

What a good point. It reminds me that even Peter was called 'Satan' when he mistepped his bounds with the Lord. I do think we are all capable of morphing at one time or another. Obviously we play the ...

As I listened to my son working on a piece of music for classical guitar it occurred to me that our flocks, like our own lives, are similar to music. Like a complicated piece of music written specific ...

As a mother, daughter, wife I am encouraged and challenged by the idea of providing "greener pastures" and a safe non intimidating place for those who are under my charge and who look to me ...