The Risen Shepherd
Today is the day everything changed. Not just because the tomb was empty. Not just because Jesus rose from the dead. But because the Risen Shepherd still comes, still speaks, and still knows His sheep—and He knows us by name.
Sheep, shepherds, and thieves
On Good Shepherd Sunday, our gospel reading stops one verse short of that particular statement of Jesus. Instead, in John 10:1–10, Jesus identifies himself as something else as part of this illustration.