http://www.naznet.com/community/ Revised Common Lectionary Discussion en Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:45 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.naznet.com/community/images/misc/rss.png http://www.naznet.com/community/ http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php/8130-I-AM-The-Good-Shepherd?goto=newpost Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:07:02 GMT For the fourth Sunday of Easter, in "Ashes to Fire" Dr. Jan Lanham, Chair of the Graduate Program at Eastern Nazarene, has done an excellent job writing the devotional for Good Shepherd Sunday. She focuses on three point, Intimacy, Security, The "I AM" For the Season of Easter, The Good Shepherd, as the I AM helps us to remember that the Resurrection means That Jesus, The I AM, is a constant companion for our spiritual journeys.

John 10:11-18
10:11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

10:12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away--and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

10:13 The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.

10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

10:15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

10:16 I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

10:17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.

10:18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father." ]]> Lectionary Discussion John Reilly http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php/8130-I-AM-The-Good-Shepherd