When looking to shepherd one must first look to the Good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ. By taking note of Him and His work we would come to a closer understanding of what it is to shepherd perfectly.
Category: church
This post will organize all the posts for the Greenwood Hills Shepherding Conference which occurred the August 17(PM) to August 19 (AM) 2006. With sessions being an hour in length and offering a 5-15 minute break save for meals which were 30 minutes, I didn’t have much time to do more than tight outlines during the messages. So I reformatted them in essay form–they may be a tad long at times
- The Good shepherd (John 10) -Randy Amos
- Feed the Flock (1 Pet 5; Acts 20:17, 28; John 21:14) -Larry Price
- Discipline in the Local Church -Willie Burnett
- 1 Tim 3:1-3 -Warren Henderson
- Christ the Perfect Servant (Is 42:1-4) -Willie Burnett
- The Perfect Master -Warren Henderson
- Continued Steadfastly (Acts 2:42) -Randy Amos
- Earnestly Contend for the Faith (Jude 3) -Larry Price
- 1 Tim 3:4-5 -Willie Burnett
- The Untangled Life (2 Tim 2:1-4 key: 3, 4) -Warren Henderson
- Faithfulness to the Gospel (1 Cor 1:17) -Randy Amos
- “Woe be to the Shepherds of Israel†(Ezek 34:1-25, 31) -Willie Burnett
- Christ the Perfect Savior -Lary Price
- Reverence in a casual world: Using his name (Ps 111:9) Warren Henderson
- 1 Tim 3:6-7 -Larry Price
- The Crown of Glory (1 Pet 5:4) -Randy Amos
If there’s a blog there’s an opinion. If there’s
an opposing opinion there is an extreme. It’s the nature of blogging.
Extreme liberals versus Extreme Conservatives. Hyper Atheists versus
Biblical Extremists. It gets pretty darn annoying when those polar
opposites are so blind to everything else that they wind up being a
travesty of their position. One of these that come to the fore in my
immediate thinking because of their extreme irresponsibility are Family
Blogs.
Lawn work stinks. I enjoyed it the first few weeks in our new home; then I bore with it. Now it’s overwhelming. I’ve fought bugs, beetles and brown patches and now I’m ankle deep in the process of figuring out what a weed is: especially when they flower. They’re just so darn pretty. How am I supposed to tell what a real flower is if weeds have just as pretty flowers? I’ll get to nature’s theological (ecclesiological I guess) lesson after I explain myself a bit.
Samurai (bushi), Ancient Japan’s military elite, would
rather die in battle than get caught and bring dishonor to their master. In
some cases, this death would come by their own sword by performing seppuku, a
ritual suicide by means of cutting the abdomen not reserved for the Battlefield
but not restricted from it either. The Samurai, while following the Bushido, lead
a life of respect, honor, loyalty and ethical conduct so falling on their sword
was a sign of extreme honor. Or so they said. They were people after all and
sometimes people get funny.