An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass.
The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!
A sheep without a shepherd, go astray.
Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak´s flute. It came from the direction of a small dark object under the hedge...
Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!
Only a real pastor and a true leader will be looking for ways to train and equip his people to develop their potential.
A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.
A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.
There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of moun...
You have to become a ladder that other people climb up in their path to success. If you are not ready for that, then you are not ready to be a pastor.
Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Knowing Psalm 23 is different from knowing the shepherd.