“A person who tends sheep.” “A pastor” and the transitive verb “to guide or guard in the manner of a shepherd.” Bible definitions from a variety of sources include “someone who ...

Tradition teaches that, like many other biblical psalms ... the metaphor of us human beings as sheep: just as sheep implicitly trust their shepherd and depend on him for their daily sustenance ...

David Clines, professor of biblical studies at the University of Sheffield, said, We all know that in reality shepherds do not keep sheep for the sake of the sheep, as acts of altruism ...

I must make a confession, as a pastor I never appreciated the comparison of clergy to a good shepherd, it felt gross. People ...

has been represented in Israel since biblical times. Three of the 11 flights carrying the sheep have already arrived in Israel, according to Gil and Jenna Lewinsky, the shepherds who began raising ...

(RNS) — The Bible issues clear warnings about ... First, Ezekiel rebukes the evil, unfaithful shepherds who feed themselves rather than the sheep: “You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with ...

In biblical circles, there is a famous letter written in 1967 in which a visiting scholar noted that sheep were, in fact, being pastured in Shepherds’ Field on Christmas Eve itself. Biblical ...

In the sheep barn, all things are equal ... But perhaps, too, he meant something of the life of the shepherd. When we read the Bible, when we encounter the scripture, the lives of Jesus and ...

Weren't those sheep lucky to have a shepherd who persevered and never gave up. Thanks for helping me tell today's treasure story. It's a story from the Bible that Jesus told. See you again soon.

Atheists, biblical skeptics and even serious observant Christians make the fallacious argument that it was too cold at that time of year in Bethlehem for sheep to graze, or for shepherds to be in ...