Tom Fisher - Predator Attacking the Sheep. Ringo Saves Them.

 

Dear Pastor Jackson,

I had a near disaster last night. Coyotes chased and panicked my sheep, but Ringo [farm dog] must have ferociously fought them off. My ewes and lambs panicked, tearing and twisting through my four foot high netting fence. One of my best ewes was lying on her back all tangled up in the netting. She was choking, so I quickly used my pliers to cut her head out of the netting. I thought she was already dead, but she came alive as I rolled her onto her chest.  Three new born lambs cried helplessly for their panicked mother's, now scattered far to the other side of the pasture. A cold steady rain and cold wind out of the North made everything worse. I feverishly constructed a pen out of four foot by eight foot wire panels to hold my newborn lambs and very nervous and jumpy mothers. I failed to get the now very weak lambs to be able to nurse their jittery mothers, so I fled back to my house for some warm fresh sheep milk. I raced back to the high pasture on my 4-wheeler with a bottle full of warm raw sheep milk. One of the lambs was to weak to suck on the bottle. The other lamb sucked enthusiastically and gained enough strength to begin nursing on her jittery mother. The weak lamb was going to die soon, so I scooped her up and put her inside my coat and raced back to the house on my 4-wheeler. She is pictured below curled up in a box I found for her. Soon she warmed up and began taking a little warm fresh sheep milk from her bottle. Soon her head was peaking over the side of her box crying for more milk. Soon she curled up and went to sleep, her belly full of warm fresh sheep milk. 

I looked at the clock and suddenly felt very tired. It's already getting close to 1 AM. What a day! Then it occurred to me that very similar 'coyote attacks' occur  in the church, panicking and scattering Christ's sheep. Then the sheep hear the voice of Christ's INCORRUPTIBLE Word in the King Bible:

"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall  man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one." John 10:27-30

In Christ,

Tom Fisher

Weather Here at Walmart-Tyson Headquarters - Raining Continues Today and Tomorrow

 

The Golpher's Moon

My Moline friends and others have been asking about the weather in Northwest Arkansas. Fortunately it is only a steady, very cold rainstorm, balmy compared to the Southeast.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Lent 5 - "For even in our day it happens that many read and study in the Scriptures and yet they cannot find Christ, he is hid and has gone out of the temple. And how many there are who say with their mouth that God is become man, and yet they are without the Spirit in their hearts; who whenever tested, prove that they were never in real earnest. This is sufficient on this subject."

 

Luther's Sermons - John 8:46-59.
Judica. Fifth Sunday in Lent

15. But here reason is terribly offended and becomes mad and furious because God should become man; this reason cannot harmonize and understand. And this is the article of faith to which the Jews still in our day can not reconcile themselves, hence they cannot cease their throwing stones and their blasphemy. But Christ also continues on the other hand to hide himself from them and to go out of their temple, so that they cannot see nor find him in the Scriptures, in which they search daily. Again, this narrative is not a little terror to all who are so foolhardy about the Scriptures and never approach them with a humble spirit. For even in our day it happens that many read and study in the Scriptures and yet they cannot find Christ, he is hid and has gone out of the temple. And how many there are who say with their mouth that God is become man, and yet they are without the Spirit in their hearts; who whenever tested, prove that they were never in real earnest. This is sufficient on this subject.