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Thanks for this insight. As a student of the scriptures, I'm constantly re-amazed at the way God's word is both self-referencing and self-fulfilling. Mark, as some are wont to say, was a literary genius. The connections of the story of the feeding of the five thousand with Psalm 23, the story of the...

This is a helpful observation. Leading a large church, I feel the pressure to go from glory to glory, one good cycle of growth to another. But, this way of thinking about church leadership negates what God might wish to do in forming his people through the pressure of the test. The wilderness is whe...

I found it interesting how the author combined the ministry of Moses and the shepherd leadership of Yahweh of the people of the exodus. It had not occurred to me that this was a prototype of the way the church would be led in the chief-shepherd/under-shepherd pattern to occur later. The author drew ...

"A shepherd after my own heart is not just developing a heart of shepherding. The heart of shepherding is developing a shepherd’s heart." That's a powerful insight. As a church planter and high achiever, the shepherding aspect of my job has not come easily. I remember thinking after our ...

One insight that helped me with this is the distinction between the rod and the staff. The staff is a guidance tool, but the rod is a weapon. Shepherds must wield both. We mustn't beat the sheep with the rod, nor attempt to guide a wolf. Wolves must be defended against, and learning this freed me to...