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Jesus is Your Shepherd: It’s More Practical Than You Might Think!
Many of the metaphors in the Bible were deployed to help communicate essential truths to a (now) ancient audience. For instance, God as our “shepherd” had such a straight-forward significance to Jewish people living in the ancient near east thousands of years ago. Genesis 48:15 records Jacob blessing Joseph and calling God “my shepherd all…
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