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“The Divine Shepherd guides the psalmist on the right trails, on ‘paths of righteousness.’ These are the ‘righteous ruts’ or tracks that lead us safely out to pasture and home again.� The Radical believer who is willing to Do Hard Things and has Crazy Love for God certainly receives a f...

“More than the quantity of physical activity, the real weight of leadership is emotional. The greatest stress on our well-being (and our family life) is the energy required to care for a community.� I’ve always been envious (in a Godly way?) of my wife’s ability to seemingly shut off the fe...

"Leading means watching. It requires the ability to see and sense things ... Sometimes only the subtlest changes in flock behavior suggest distress, disagreement, or alarm." The image of a shepherd leaning on his staff, seemingly doing nothing but gazing at his sheep, has some resonance f...

"In God's kingdom, he was teaching, we should always 'count by ones'" (p79). When I pastored a small-town church in South Carolina, particularly in the first two or three years, numerical growth was painfully slow. And yet it was in that very context, where patience was (seemingly) stretc...

"Let's consider the ways we have been cared for as well as the people God asked us to care for" (p33) Last night I found myself enjoying a Patriots game at Gillette Stadium, thanks to the generosity of a fellow church member. It caused me to reflect on the words above, and consider just h...