One of the themes that has been present, seemingly throughout this entire text, is the notion that a true shepherd is willing and ready to give his own life for the sake of the sheep in the flock. Li ...
Matthew 2:6 quotes Micah 5:2 with reference to a ruler that would be born who would be a shepherd to Israel. I thought about this and similar references and pondered what we know about Jesus’ ...
One of the most sobering and liberating notions presented in this text was that we are only shepherd leaders to the extent that God calls and equips us to do. This is sobering because it reminds us t ...
I intend to spend time processing the movement from the use of shepherd as metaphor in the old testament and through most of the new testament to John’s visions of the shepherd lamb in the book ...
I have, for years, heard and considered the passage in Matthew 25 as one of judgment as “…he will separate people from one another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats†( ...