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One of the themes that has been present, seemingly throughout this entire text, is the notion that a true shepherd is willing and ready to give his own life for the sake of the sheep in the flock. Living in 21st century America, ages removed from the nomadic life of the Middle Eastern shepherds of J...

Matthew 2:6 quotes Micah 5:2 with reference to a ruler that would be born who would be a shepherd to Israel. I thought about this and similar references and pondered what we know about Jesus’ life and stated mission and what is commonly believed and understood about “rulers� throughout the age...

One of the most sobering and liberating notions presented in this text was that we are only shepherd leaders to the extent that God calls and equips us to do. This is sobering because it reminds us that while we are responsible for God’s people, we are accountable to God. It is to God that we must...

I intend to spend time processing the movement from the use of shepherd as metaphor in the old testament and through most of the new testament to John’s visions of the shepherd lamb in the book of Revelation. Particularly, in the former, the shepherd is always an image or type of something else - ...

I have, for years, heard and considered the passage in Matthew 25 as one of judgment as “…he will separate people from one another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats� (Matthew 25:32). The imagery is more significant for me now as I consider the reasoning which follows. One group ...