This parable is one of six known as prayer parables: The Lost Sheep, The Lost Coin, The Lost Son, The Pharisee and Tax Collector, The Friend at Midnight, and the Persistent Widow. When the ...

In his talk May 20 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the host of the “Bible in a Year” podcast moved a packed audience ...

The story is a parable that Jesus told ... Then ask the children to freeze frame being the shepherd, one of the 99 sheep, or the lost sheep, at the following points of the story: When the shepherd ...

Charlotte McDonald said the committee’s name reflected a parable in the Bible where a shepherd leaves a herd of 99 sheep to find one that had been lost. “The students are lost to their ...

Jesus tells the parable of the lost sheep to show that the Kingdom of God ... The shepherd leaves the 99 others and searches high and low for the lost sheep. Jesus stresses that when the shepherd ...

he told them this parable: "If any of you had a flock of a hundred sheep and one of them wandered off, wouldn't you leave the 99 others in the wilderness and go and search for the one that's lost ...

In contrast, the good shepherd – as the Gospel of Matthew says – is willing to leave the 99 sheep to go to look for the one that wandered off. “In the same way your Father in heaven is not ...

Spring and baby animals are such an iconic combo, and I'm excited to share a new picture book out for spring 2025 that combines them adorably, Barnaby the Runaway Sheep: A Parable of the Lost Sheep.