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Our study of the shepherd image helps illustrate the deep irony of God’s work through Christ. Jesus is not just the Good Shepherd but as it turns out He is also the Lamb “who takes away the sin of the world�. (Jn.1.29) That’s a pretty dramatic plot twist! The theme of humiliation and exultat...

Even though we have no record of him literally “keeping sheep� Jesus is still the quintessential shepherd. How do we know this? Because He tells us He is. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.� Jesus defines “good� as a shepherd who is willing to sa...

The cool thing about David was that he was such a renaissance man. Shepherd, musician, fighter, poet - all of these roles ultimately led him to becoming Israel's quintessential king. He, of course, was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but nonetheless he became the blueprint against whic...

The figure of Moses is an interesting biblical model of shepherding. Moses was a shepherd for FORTY years! That's a full career for most people in today's world but normally when we think of Moses it seems more like a side job. But undoubtedly it shaped his thinking and the way he approached leading...

In the midst of trendy church leadership models it seems to me that recapturing the image of the shepherd is critical to the health and integrity of the North American church. I'm not sure which cultural critic said it but I wholeheartedly agree with the critique that christianity in America is 3000...