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When I teach class and prepare my students to go into the shop I like to give a hands on demonstration first. Many people learn by watching. But after going over a particular task I find that if I stop what I'm doing and step back and observe that is a greater impact for the class to learn. I believ...

The challenge of shepherds is to balance mercy with courage. I have seen jellied back preachers sacrifice young parishioners because they wouldn't speak up for themselves. In the book while shepherds watch their flocks page 112 the author records shepherding required us to speak up for those who can...

I personally try to remember the names of the people in my local fellowship however I do find it challenging to pronounce their names. Especially the youth. It is remarkable how some men are really equipped to cultivate relationships and build intimacy. God inspire the writers of the Bible to mentio...

Day 13 As soon as I seen the word staff I immediately thought about ministers who have staff or employees. And how it is so unscriptural. We call those that labor among us everything but what the Bible tells us to call them. But men being men will always challenge the God ways and imitate the corpor...

Day 12 Today's ministries in our world when you look at them from the outside they seem to be running full blast. A good Shepherd knows how to lead his sheep , ministers and leaders into rest and relaxation. I believe this can only be accomplished if the primary leader knows how to sit back and play...

Day 11 Ezekiel 34:16 I will seek that which was lost and bring back that which has strayed, and I will bandage the hurt and the crippled and will strengthen the weak and the sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong [who have become hardhearted and perverse]; I will feed them with judgment and...

Day Ten
I find the combination of passionate intercession and determine action a good rule to go by when anguishing over the lost.

Day nine I did not know all sheep needed some kind of human intervention . This is Mind blogging considering that actual real Shepherding is shadow of the spiritual. But it makes sense looking back on my life in Christ and how I had so much support over the years. And how as shepherds we should unde...

Day eight I love the opening statement that his mother was still amazed at the various ways a sheep can find a way to die. This is not a perfect example of a picture of sheep which is including myself, how we invent ways to bring division between us and God. We thank God the Messiah who has been tem...

Day seven Today a friend related feeding the sheep of God with proper nourishment and a film we watch today called "not in my church". It was about a pastor that was using his position of authority to entices members into sexual relations. He commented that the pastor no longer cared about...

Day six The place of God's Pastoral dwelling, Jerusalem is a wonderful statement. The thought of God having a central location to dispense his shepherding to the flock of the world is exciting. I long for that day because to me that is the true greener pastures. It is also true that God prepares a t...

As I read this weeks assignment I found out that I was part of the crowd who confuse Moses striking the rock and him being commanded to speak to the rock. I love this! it is very gracious of God to correct me. And the implications of using a old Shepard's trick to feed the flock of God as opposed in...

Day four The promise of streams in the desert is a paradox: to provide living water and a place of barrenness. I wonder what is that Barrenness ? Is it just living in the world and as shepherds providing the people who work with us a place to be still. Is it something that God does? I'm not sure. On...

Day three On page 35 calling to care I found the statement interesting "God fully intends to use the shepherd image to shape the identity of his ministers. The scripture that he is the potter and I am the clay comes to mind and I find this first very comforting and reassuring that I am in the p...

Day two
Brings me into remembrance how God provides all. And that supernaturally he has poured into my life and my family on so many occasions of unmerited favor and supernatural provision