Article published in the Phelps County Focus on September 18, 2025. This is an abridged and re-focused version of my sermon by the same name.
In Luke 15, Jesus preached about a shepherd leaving 99 sheep to go look for the one he had lost. Sheep are almost too stupid to live. They don’t run away. They go where they are guided to go. If a sheep is lost, it’s because it was left behind when the shepherd moved the rest of the flock along.
Sheep are like …