ShepherdLeader.com

Admittedly, I haven’t given much thought to the rod and staff as mentioned in Psalm 23. Largely because I have heard so many different perspectives on what they mean and why they are important. Sometimes those definitions are contradictory. Everyone has an option it seems. However, reading Laniak ha...

While it’s difficult to relate to the Bedouin shepherds, I do understand the weight that is placed on the young shepherds for going after the lost goats. The flock is their livelihood, so learning responsibility is incredibly important in that world. That said, It’s hard not to feel bad about the yo...

As a pastor, I have gotten fairly discouraged at all the to-do lists that pile up. I remember not too long ago I spoke to my wife in exasperation telling her, “I wanted to be a pastor of people, not a administrator of programs, or a ceo of a business.” While there is some understandable reasons to d...

In my travels to Israel, I too spent time in the wilderness among the Bedouin shepherds. I really appreciated how Laniak emphasized the Akkadian word for “Eden” which refers to verdant wilderness. Meaning, a wilderness with a burst of oasis. I learned this there too, that there was a garden IN Eden,...

I have spent a lot of my life in the wilderness. Literal and otherwise. As a young man, my family lived in the middle of the wilderness of Haiti... in a valley called Dessalines. Very dry, very hot. And spiritually was a desert as well. Lots of time alone with my thoughts. I attribute that time as a...