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Where is home when you are a Bedouin leading sheep from place to place? It is a tent which is readily put up and taken down (sometimes by a storm) and moved about as you continue your journey of finding what the flock needs. This summer has included a journey across America for me, my wife, her moth...

Day 8 opens with an amazingly lengthy description of things that could go bad or otherwise sicken a sheep - or even quickly a whole flock. A powerful idea from this opening quote is its last line. “But a good shepherd can counter every affliction.� Seeking to counter every affliction sounds simi...

A powerful idea from the opening lengthy quote is its last line. “But a good shepherd can counter every affliction.� Sounds similar to Biblical Counseling covered quite thoroughly in the Scott and Lambert book, Counseling the Hard Cases. One of my new prayers is, “O Lord, as your under-shepher...

I chuckled from the very start when I read the author, Dr. Timothy S. Laniak, had his first trip to the Middle East in 1977. That was the same year as my first visit. Later trips included Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and living in the West Bank with a Palestinian pastor’s family. So, I was really excite...