Sentences with phrase «shepherd because»

It belongs to the same breed but is referred to as the Black German Shepherd because... well, it's entirely black!

When Michael B. came to our shelter to surrender his beloved German shepherd because he could not afford to feed him, he was provided food and directions to all of the local pet food banks, which allowed him to keep his dog instead of surrendering the animal, and a profound connection was made.

Also I was wondering what you feed your german shepherd because that is what I have as well.

An equally alert and energetic pup, the Belgian malinois (right) often gets mistaken for the iconic German shepherd because of its two - toned coat.

Whatever the reason, excess weight is very dangerous for a German shepherd because it puts his internal organs at risk; he has an increasingly higher chance to develop heart disease, and his lungs can be severely affected as well.

Keep your kid's toys far from the reach of your German shepherd because they are in a habit of chewing them.

Keep your kid's toy far from the reach of your German shepherd because they are in a habit of chewing them.

The Martins were baffled — they bought a second German Shepherd because they liked the personality of the first, but they didn't know that within breeds, individual characters can vary widely.

We knew we wanted another female because this time we had in mind the option of showing / breeding but we wanted another australian shepherd because we're hooked on the breed.

In John's story of the good shepherd, Jesus is portrayed as the good shepherd because when the wolf comes he does not flee like a hireling, but because the sheep are his own he lays down his life for his sheep.

The Good Shepherd Because he would not abandon the flock for a lost sheep after the others had bedded down for the night, he turned back, searched the thickets and gullies.

I believe he does have a shepards heart, but Im starting to develop empathy for shepherds because you guys are in a difficult calling on your lives dealing with difficult people.

Some honorable mentions for family dogs are also shih tzus due to their gentleness and affection, German shepherds because of their intelligence and trainability, and vizslas because of their loyalty and affection.

Not exact matches

«The worst place is actually the step above rock bottom, because you're still trying to hold onto something,» says Dean Shepherd, business prof at the University of Notre Dame.

They were effective because they paid attention to their workers and met their needs, like a shepherd tending to this flock.

Many companies have fallen by the wayside because those in charge were not financially disciplined enough to shepherd the business through the early times.

You see the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, but the hireling fleeth because he is a hireling and careth not for the sheep.

Finally consider what is said about Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: Jesus looked and had compassion on the crowd, because he saw that they were harassed, as sheep without a shepherd.

I used to wonder why I was so «weak» and would get so emotional when the people would leave and even mad at myself for not being able to just become tough and stay more emotionally distant with the people but a few close friends in the church told me not to change because my reaction simply shows what a caring shepherd I am.

They single people out, gossip, slander, leverage position and popularity votes to gain position and prestige — because the mustn't know The Shepherd, and know His love.

The shepherd isn't benevolently protecting the sheep just because he loves them.

Shepherds like him and others, who have staked all for the sake of gospel, are believable not because of their rank but because of their love.

* 1 Peter 5:1 - 4 — «Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them — not because you must... not pursuing dishonest gain... not lording it over those entrusted to you.»

I do believe God will not not give up on them though because He is the Good Shepherd and He will seek His lost sheep.

However, the word «pastor» was always awkward mainly because of its once - only replacement for «shepherd».

Thus they arrived ahead of Jesus and the disciples; but although his attempt to find solitude had failed, «he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things» (Mk 6:34; Mt 14:14; cf. 9:36; Lk 9:11).

Jesus, the Good Shepherd, does not humiliate us or abandon us to remorse: in Him, the tenderness of the Father speaks, He who comforts and raises up; He who makes us pass from the disintegration of shame --- because shame surely causes us to disintegrate --- to the fabric of trust; who restores courage, recommits responsibility, and consigns us to the mission.

Like the shepherd protecting the sheep in the pen by laying himself down as the door so wolves have to go though the shepherd to get to the sheep, so also any sin that gets to us has to go through God, because He is our shield.

It is important because Jesus said the wolf will come for the weak ones that have no shepherd.

Jesus was born in the late spring or summer because shepherds still had their flocks in the fields.

Because, Joseph explains, all shepherds are an offensive thing (to'ebah) to the Egyptians.

I could say just the opposite, that believers often have a much greater respect for the world because God made it for us and commanded us to be good shepherds over it.

1 Peter 5:2 - 4 Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them — not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

HE also said there are many false shepherds, but His sheep will not follow them, because they recognize only the voice of the shepherd, the TRUE Sshepherd, the TRUE ShepherdShepherd.

Here we have seven loaves instead of five, 4,000 instead of 5,000, compassion because of the people's hunger here, compassion because they are like sheep without a shepherd in the earlier narrative.

«Along with the sound of wise men and shepherds, of the angels and all the heavenly host praising God and singing,» writes Morse, «there is this other sound — the sound of «a voice heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more.»»

In The Educated Imagination Northrop Frye comments that when he hears people wishing they could have been at Bethlehem so they could have seen the star, the angels singing, the shepherds, the babe, he realizes that he wouldn't have seen it, because he doesn't see it now.

If sheep had any brains, which they don't, the found sheep would know that the shepherd loved him the most because he promised to be good eating.

But this is the saddest part of the application of the analogy: those who identify themselves too much with the sheep may willingly suffer this neglect, bullying and consumption from their leaders because that's what shepherds do and that's how sheep behave.

So they were scattered because there was no shepherd.

It's even harder for shepherds to bring sheep home from the psychologized pew because many splinters have been left to fester.

This defense of the accuracy of the Fourth Gospel in reporting the words of Jesus is undertaken, in spite of what must appear to the disinterested student insuperable obstacles, because to these lovers of the Gospel the alternative seems to be surrendering the authenticity of some of the most precious and manifestly true of Christ's reported words: «I am the bread of life... I am the light of the world... I am the good shepherd... If you continue in my words... you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free... He that drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst... I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live... I am the way, the truth and the life; no one cometh to the Father but by me»... and many more.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

He had only compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Because our God is a tender shepherd to His sheep, who binds the wounds of the hurt, the lonely and castaways, BUT also, He is the fierce judge to those who have done evil, without caring whom they hurt, and in not repenting of it....

He had compassion on the crowds, as he has had on us, because they were like sheep without a shepherd.

Some â $ œvisionaryâ $ leaders are often terrible shepherds of their flock, because they care more about the end result then they do the journey, and the people who get helped or hurt along the way.

And it is presumed that because he was a good shepherd the sheep was overjoyed too.