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As I have read this devotional book over the past few months, God has been at work in my personal and my ministry life. I have found the images to be helpful in my journey as a pastor to a flock to help them to become ready for our permanent home. Leading, guiding, feeding, giving rest and exercise ...

Authority and abuse caused me to think about the hierarchy of our pastoral staff and the way that I lead my specific ministries. The topic made me consider what are the ways I encourage and empower the leaders of the ministry areas I am responsible to supervise. I need to empower these leaders to us...

Day 35 brought to the forefront the tension between the administrative duties of the shepherd for the entire flock as well as the need to be with individual people within the flock. I have a hard time balancing these two realities. Deadlines for administrative details and documents are always pressi...

Day 16 brought a recognition that I do watch people for unspoken signs of changes in life. It wasn't necessarily something I would have called attention to in my job description, or would have been able to name as something I do or needed to do. This intuitive place of ministry of watchfulness must ...

On reading Day number 5, about digging wells in dry, parched lands, I found myself thinking about leading others into digging wells from Scripture. Water is life giving and each of us ultimately find life from God, mostly through Scripture. As a pastor I have tools to find the water and to dispense ...