The komondor's white coat enabled the dog to blend in
with the sheep in the pasture.
In reality, the shepherds would not have been in the hills
with their sheep in the middle of December.
Not exact matches
China is the world's largest
sheep meat producer
with a flock estimated at nearly 140 million
in 2011, but output has been declining as farmable land shrinks due to urbanisation.
We need to be aware of wolves
in sheep's clothing, who wish to tear the Church down and take disciples
with them.
I remember my Catholic grade school years and feeling the same way, like what if I didn't like hanging out
with those people
in robes and their
sheep and those clouds... Fortunately I was able to see through the whole scam at about 8 years old.
I could see a fourth frame of scarred up
sheep with crutches, casts,
in wheel chairs, etc. coming after the shepherd....
All I know is you believe
in myths based on no facts
with magical stories told by
sheep herders from 2000 years ago.
The idea that a being would create the entire thing —
with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH
with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about
sheep and goats
in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.
I remember a cartoon
in a magazine from decades past, might have been one of my father's Playboy issues, where the shepherd is approaching two
sheep with a bouquet of flowers
in his hand and one of the
sheep says to the other, «He can just sod right off, I have a headache.»
I often picture myself as a shepherd
with a flock of
sheep (excuse the ancient analogy that falls
in so many instances, but
in this one...) my job is to protect the flock from wolves and weeds.
The «previously» virgin Mary having extra-marital intercourse
with a
sheep - herder just as Joseph walks
in (early from work).
Tommy, I'll agree
with you: there's a LOT of
sheep in America.
What does wolves
in sheep's clothing have to do
with the abortion issue?
It does not easily befit a Mephistophelean Superpower, posing his supernatural guile and strength
in eternal battle
with the Almighty, to be distressed by the fact that Job has got a lot of
sheep.
He lives
in his mom's basement, and she lets him out about once a month to «play»
with the neighbor's
sheep.
Yes, the available history says that the heart was
in the possession of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it for a long time after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a
sheep that some clergyman sold along
with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.
Just like the protestant preachers
with their $ 20 million $ churchs that stand as monuments to themselves while not a mile away people starve everyday and live
in cardboard boxes and the dumb
sheep keep giving to these conmen.
Joel Osteen is a wolf
in sheep's clothing... he is misleading thousands
with his prosperity gospel message.
U.S. forces, like wolves
in sheep's clothing, pull teeth and build roads during training exercises that equip repressive indigenous troops while providing U.S. soldiers
with experience that would be vital during a future U.S. invasion of Central America.
Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem
with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves
in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.
It also seems obvious that many people concerned
with declining church membership and attendance saw evangelism primarily
in terms of church growth: anything that added
sheep to the flock had to be good.
The angels informed shepherds...
in fields...
with sheep... that peace is for all people on earth.
There is a big disconnect
with your position and reality as well as the warning that Jesus gave
in Matthew 25 regarding His Judgment of the Nations as
sheep and goats.
@Pixie Yeah, that happens
with sheep, and other followers of wolves
in sheep's clothing.
The first task, manifestly, was to disclaim possible elements, meanings, or implications
in the shepherd -
sheep relationship that conflict
with ministry understood
in other or larger senses; i.e., using such criteria as we have already tried to summarize
in relation to the preaching and administering images.
Or perhaps modern shepherd kneeling beside
sheep with leg caught, Chevrolet
in background, first - aid kit spread behind him, and binoculars temporarily laid beside first - aid kit, While there may be humorous elements about this image, it is an important reminder that the means of shepherding may change, and hopefully may improve, but that the tender and solicitous concern and the relevance of the shepherd's actions to the needs of the
sheep remain constant.
If
sheep get lost when they wander away, it can hardly be the spirit of inquiry or adventure that is reprehensible
in itself, but rather the ambiguous mixing of this spirit
with impulsive immediacy instead of planning,
with distrust of the shepherd but fear to come out and say so, and
with a rationalization that one's motives are wholly pure and innocent.
Distract the
sheep with shiny objects and they will turn their heads and forget all about other things that might be going on
in the world.
There is nothing wrong
with having black
sheep in a religion, it helps us see how human we really are.
How many of these churches will give to hurting people
in the neighborhood that are not church attendees without any strings attached??? The true
sheep of His pasture will God seek out if you sit
in the halls of the false prophet and pastor who distorts and deceives you
with false words which God has never said.
The tall, telegenic, thirty - something Lyons usually plays ringmaster
in tight pants — «skinny jeans» are so ubiquitous at Q that they run the risk of being unhip —
with his trademark blond hair falling down to his eyes
in sheep dog fashion.
In Luke 15:1 - 10, then, the two points are made: the shepherd leaves the ninety - nine sheep to seek out the lost one, and rejoices when it is found; the woman drops everything else to seek out the one lost coin (the coin mentioned is probably a Greek drachma, literally worth sixteen cents, but in actual purchasing power many times more than that), and rejoices with her friends when it is foun
In Luke 15:1 - 10, then, the two points are made: the shepherd leaves the ninety - nine
sheep to seek out the lost one, and rejoices when it is found; the woman drops everything else to seek out the one lost coin (the coin mentioned is probably a Greek drachma, literally worth sixteen cents, but
in actual purchasing power many times more than that), and rejoices with her friends when it is foun
in actual purchasing power many times more than that), and rejoices
with her friends when it is found.
We are called to partner
with our God as He calls the lost home and invites the outcast to be His children; we are invited to join Him as He searches for His
sheep on college campuses,
in offices, on the streets and, yes, at the Grammys.
The
sheep being those who visited people
in hospital an prison, did things for the least of others and had to be reminded by Jesus of when they had done
with him welcoming them.
He is the God who does not rest content
with having 99
sheep in the fold, but continues to seek the one who is lost, and rejoices when he is saved (Luke 15:3 - 7).
A weathered brown - skinned man
with sheep balm on his jeans and a cigarette
in his callused hand.
Is it just me, or is there more than a little bit of tension
in the way we deal
with biblical and ecclesial images of
sheep and shepherds, pastors and flocks?
He consorted
with the disdained and the despised he searched out the lost win, the lost
sheep; he spoke for the poor, the meek, the sick, the bereaved, the voiceless
in the courts, and the silent
in their graves.
Nobody will even know who Tebow is
in a few years after everyone realizes he is just a 3rd rate football player that will never amount to anything other than pandering to the
sheep that eat up all the religious hopla just like they do when it's spewed from the scam artists on TV who end up getting caught
with trannys and smoking meth.
What an awesome God we serve, and if the shepherds
in the field understood what it meant to pray and seek God for what He sets
in their heart, and to allow God to fulfill what He sets
in their heart, God's
sheep would be witnesses unto God, and Christ would be
with man, and this world be a much different place than it is.
We see this blend of an apocalyptic framework
with a prophetic message most clearly
in the parable of the last judgment or the
sheep and the goats.
The idea that a being would create the entire thing —
with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH
with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about
sheep and goats
in Greco - Roman Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.
Didn't jesus base judgement (seperation of
sheep / goats) on what we did for the least... visit those
in prison, feed the hungry etc... nothing to do
with what we believed... but how we live.
When the Son of man shall come
in His glory, and all the holy angels
with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his
sheep from the goats: And He shall set the
sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
With much the same thrust, despite its linkage with an apocalyptic concept of divine judgment, is the presentation of the separation of the sheep from the goats in the last judgment (M
With much the same thrust, despite its linkage
with an apocalyptic concept of divine judgment, is the presentation of the separation of the sheep from the goats in the last judgment (M
with an apocalyptic concept of divine judgment, is the presentation of the separation of the
sheep from the goats
in the last judgment (Matt.
The pre-exilic prophets were already speaking of the judgment to fall «
in the latter days» as one
in which the God of Israel «will be judge between nations, arbiter among many peoples» 8 and where the divine judgment would result
in a new kind of world
in which «the wolf shall live
with the
sheep, and the leopard lie down
with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, and a little child shall lead them».9
We
sheep have many stomachs
with which to process what we take
in.
The first is from the well - known passage
in Isaiah 11: 6 - 9: «The wolf shall dwell
with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the
sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them... the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
I was an assembly - line employee for several years, and there, despite the presence of hundreds, even thousands of other people, I could be as solitary as a peasant
in a field or a herdsman tending
sheep, laboring
in rhythm — not
with nature, to be sure — but
with the conveyor belt that brought the auto body or its parts to me.
After a generation or two
in which paid quartets,
in the better - heeled parishes, praised God weekly as surrogates for the congregation, and professional organizations raised the money for «plant expansion» (all, of course,
with a well - oiled unction that would have glazed the eyeballs of St. Paul) it is not surprising that the counsel to stewardship should be preceded, according to some church programs, by an inquisatorial scrutiny of the share of each of the
sheep in the gross national product.