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If you haven't been insulted by our characterization of how much we are like sheep, here are a few more characteristics of the nature of sheep, as cited by Dr. Sam L. Peeples, Jr. and Mary Glynn Peeples in their study of "Successful Stress Management: A Unique Biblical Approach": 6. Sheep ...

In the early 90's I attended a conference entitled "Successful Stress Management: A Unique Biblical Approach" by Dr. Sam L. Peeples, Jr. and Mary Glynn Peeples. In the middle of the teaching content, there is a listing of the nature of sheep, citing Isaiah 53:6: All we like sheep have gone...

Reading the Prophets in the Old Testament typically conjure up images of "fire breathing preachers," those men that God used to correct his people. Mostly the people did not listen to the prophets. I am humbled when I read Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah attempting assemble the wa...

Moses is such a central figure in the Old Testament, it could be considered a biography. Yet it is through Moses' story that we see God revealed. I did not grasp that Moses was the means by which God lead and fed his people in the wilderness. Moses stands for the people under his watch, even to the ...

There is a deacon in my congregation that loves music. He plays the flute with the choir. Around Christmas he'll give me a copy of a favorite CD. Last year it was Jethro Tull's Christmas Cd. I didn't know Jethro Tull made a Christmas CD. This year, it was Pink Floyd's CD "Animals." The met...

I have often wondered how the term "shepherd" translate to a 21st century urban listener. Laniak's thesis is well researched, including the obvious Old and New Testament references we would expect. But he also includes Ancient Near East references as well as beginning the topic with a disc...