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Authorities are advising residents to be on the lookout for a white sheep in an area between Haddenfield, New Jersey, and a neighboring community. They said the sheep is very skittish and runs away when approached. Local animal control officials said they have seen the sheep but it is very hard to catch…

There was great distress among the sheep. Little Wally, the son of prominent flock members Drusilla and Arthur, was missing. The panic had begun in early afternoon, when he did not return from play. Soon, though, the shepherd found out that Wally was gone, and about nightfall he set out to search for…

The following story comes from Julie Helms in Christian Reader, Lite Fare: My husband and I, with our two daughters, operate a small sheep farm. One day a non-farming friend asked, "How can you bear to slaughter those cute little lambs?" My husband explained, "We don't want to get emotionally attached…

George Adam Smith, the 19th century biblical scholar tells of traveling one day in the holy land and coming across a shepherd and his sheep. He fell into conversation with him and the man showed him the fold into which the sheep were led at night. It consisted of four walls, with a way in. Smith asked…

Often people expect pastors to feed sheep the same way you feed lambs, and that's the worst thing you can do. Grown sheep need to be shown the pasture for themselves. Source: —Stuart Briscoe, Leadership, Vol. 5, no. 3. (Quoted in Leadership Weekly 10-02-07)

A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task, but he just couldn't remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get past…