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I agree that it is easy to be focused so much on being the shepherd that we forget we are part of the flock. I forget which reading it was, but I am reminded that one of the largest obstacles that pastors/chaplains have to spiritual health is the work of the ministry. Busyness replaced devotion.

Ps. 28:8 “Save your people and bless your inheritance; Be their shepherd and carry them forever.� Over the years, Psalm 28 has been an important Psalm for me both personally and pastorally. As I read the first verse of the Psalm I hear a desperate cry for help from someone who has fallen into a ...

Do we have a shepherds’ voice? As Laniak develops his chapter on Matthew, a thought was stirred as I read his scriptural references for Matthew on pg. 185. In the Matthew 9:36 reference, we see Jesus reaction of compassion to the crowd, because they were “like sheep without a shepherd.� This b...

As a result of the reading, many of the scriptures and thoughts of ministry seem to relate more and more to the Shepherding image. In particular, as I prepare for Christmas this week, I think of the Shepherds that were in the field on the night of the birth of Jesus. In particular, I think of them a...

As I read chapter 8 tonight regarding Ezekiel's condemnation of Israel's shepherds, I was struck by the description on page 147 of Ezekiel's metaphor involving the scattering of YHWH's sheep at the hands of self-serving shepherds. Can this indictment be made of many of us as shepherd's of God's floc...

As I read the opening chapters of this book, I wondered if the idea of "Shepherd" that is conveyed in the Bible is within the grasp of our modern church culture, and if it can be understood by the culture outside of the church. As the book describes in the first three chapters, the culture...